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Ask HN: Solo founder support group?
Is there a group / mailing list / slack / irc / forum for those of us who are trying to start our own business but have no one to discuss the day to day issues with?
I have been working on my own product for the last few months. I also have a day job. While it is hard to work on nights and weekends, what I find harder is to not have anyone outside of my wife to share the ups and downs with. I am not looking for a cofounder but it would be great to have a place where I can ask for advice, share what I accomplished or complain about things to people in the same boat.
- itamarst 10y agoStart your own? I'm in Boston, MA area and working on a side project. itamar@codewithoutrules.com
- throwawaz 10y agoif you start a slack channel, I'll join--I have the same issue
- iisbum 10y agoWould be interested in something like this too, if you start/find something would love to join too.
- adx314 10y agoInterested as well...
- davidlee1435 10y agoi'd be interested in a slack channel as well
- bostonhacker 10y agoOk - OP here. Looks like we have at least 5 people interested. Someone might still point us at an existing community. In the meantime I created a slack channel and a forum. HN does not seem to have a way to PM. Let me know how to invite you? Best thing I could come up with is for people to send me their email to this throwaway account: 52txhw+21xn2yhez22ozgcdc@sharklasers.com Forum http://solojourney.prophpbb.com/ http://solojourney.prophpbb.com/ Slack channel https://solojourney.slack.com/ https://solojourney.slack.com/
- tylercubell 10y agoPerhaps a Google Form would be safer way to submit an email address. > Since SharkLasers doesn't require account registration, anyone who knows the Inbox ID may have access to that inbox. So it's best to use a random address. To add protection, you can use the Alias Address feature. An Alias Address can only be know if the Inbox ID is known and you cannot use an Alias as an Inbox Id. The more hard-to-guess your Inbox ID is, the better your Alias will protect you.
- bostonhacker 10y agoI agree - Google Forms is a better idea. I only shared the randomized alias so we should be ok with the throwaway email as well. Here is the Google Forms link: https://goo.gl/forms/uFackrq4AjrBOrmH2 https://goo.gl/forms/uFackrq4AjrBOrmH2
- bostonhacker 10y agoHere is a Google form for the slack invite: https://goo.gl/forms/uFackrq4AjrBOrmH2 https://goo.gl/forms/uFackrq4AjrBOrmH2 Forum: http://solojourney.prophpbb.com/ http://solojourney.prophpbb.com/ Slack channel: https://solojourney.slack.com/ https://solojourney.slack.com/
- deedubaya 10y agoHow about a subreddit?
- cdvonstinkpot 10y agoAgreed. Or Voat. Pros & cons either way.
- acedinlowball 10y agoI would love something like this. I am a businessman, entrepreneur, developer, evangelist and I would love the opportunity to peruse my interests with those of a like mind
- gtworld 10y agoI'm in! I finally have the startup but started as solo founder. Took me a while to put a team together, took me a while to get seed funding, is taking me while now to scale sales... basically everything takes a while, and a while longer if you are a solo founder. I'd love to participate.
- bostonhacker 10y agoSounds like you have a lot of experience others could benefit from. Here is how to join: Forum: http://solojourney.prophpbb.com/ http://solojourney.prophpbb.com/ Slack channel: https://solojourney.slack.com/ https://solojourney.slack.com/ Google form for slack invite: https://goo.gl/forms/uFackrq4AjrBOrmH2 https://goo.gl/forms/uFackrq4AjrBOrmH2
- webstartupper 10y agoFind other solo founders from forums like http://discuss.bootstrapped.fm/ http://discuss.bootstrapped.fm/ and start a weekly mastermind
- pascalxus 10y agoi just signed up here and started interacting. Looks like a good forum and community.
- bostonhacker 10y agoThis looks like a good place too!
- itamarst 10y agoThere's https://barnacl.es https://barnacl.es as a HN alternative that's bootstrapper focused. Not that much discussion though.
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- singold 10y agoLoved this, just registered to the forum and send email :)
- madamelic 10y agoMillionth-ing. I sent you an email for an invite. :)
- bostonhacker 10y agoIf you haven't received an invite yet could you please submit your email to this google form? https://goo.gl/forms/uFackrq4AjrBOrmH2 https://goo.gl/forms/uFackrq4AjrBOrmH2 Forum: http://solojourney.prophpbb.com/ http://solojourney.prophpbb.com/ Slack channel: https://solojourney.slack.com/ https://solojourney.slack.com/
- dhruvkar 10y agoI'd be interested as well.
- malux85 10y agoInterested too, just mailed the throwaway account :)
- bostonhacker 10y agoCould you please send you email via this google form? https://goo.gl/forms/uFackrq4AjrBOrmH2 https://goo.gl/forms/uFackrq4AjrBOrmH2 Looks like by the time I got home the throwaway account deleted all the emails already. Sorry about that :(
- alantrum 10y agoInterested as well. I signed up on the google form
- Lordarminius 10y agoI'm in.
- tixocloud 10y agoI'm interested as well and would be happy to help out with the maintenance of the group.