100+ Slack Communities for a Startup CEO

Product Talks: 114 communities, explore them all.

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7 min readJun 21, 2017

Slack keeps growing like crazy with new ways of using the app besides team communications. We at Standuply did some research about that and composed a list of 1000 Slack communities.

Today I’d like to share product related Slack communities with SSG Medium reader. See this post with the full list of 1000 communities.

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Design, UI/UX
Ecommerce
GameDev
Games
Slack
Startups and Product Development
Miscellaneous

Design, UI/UX

Designer Hangout (9425): UX designers and researchers from around the world
Team Sketch (5000): Community for Sketch designers
UX Mastery (2552): UX-people chat
UX Design Community (1500): UI/UX designers from all over the globe
Animation at Work (1460): Place where web animation and UI animation folks meet
Grommet (1209): Advanced UX framework for enterprise applications
Org Designers (1100): It’s for people who are actively helping to make their workplaces better places to work
UX SP (911): UI/UX inspired community
UXGuide (839): People interested in UX, product design, and in general art and science
Get Started in UX Design (732): Place to discuss everything beginner UX designers need
Content + UX Slack (631): Group for experts in the UX of content
Junior UX Community (575): Group where junior UX designers might get hired
MODO User Group (478): Place for MODO (3D-modeling software) user group
AIGA Upstate NY (475): Professional association for design
Revision Path (339): Black graphic designers and developers
TouchDesigner (211): Developers and artists from around the world
Designers Unite Slack community (203): Graphic designers spot
Open Design (160): Slack channel of non-profit organization to improve the design industry
Everything Design (138): A friendly group of people with a common passion for design
Designer Talk (134): Place for designers to chat about industry and trends
Design Stuff (112): Another group for designers
Anchor Designs (Art & Design) (34): Chat for artists, web designers, tattoo artists, layout designers and other creative professionals
Skillthrive (9): Photoshop and digital image processing group
MotionDesign (n/a): Community of designers, animators, illustrators, and all types of digital artists
Design Talks (n/a): Channel with talks on UI/UX Design, Web Design, Illustrations, freelance, critique and feedbacks

Ecommerce

Spree Commerce (1435): Open source ecommerce solution for Ruby on Rails
Moltin hub (1263): Slack hub for learning, discussing, sharing and contributing to each others projects
Solidus (1020): Open-source ecommerce Rails application for high volume retailers
Marketplace Academy (50): Everything about ecommerce and online marketplaces
E-Commerce Slack Chat (n/a): Community founded by TJ Mapes — blogger who tells about his experiments with online store of RIPT Apparel where he works
eCommerce Lounge (n/a): Talks about online stores and internet marketing
Proven ECommerce (n/a): Entrepreneurs and marketers from growing ecommerce stores

GameDev

The Unity Developers Group (2163): Place where Unity game developers gather to recount their adventures in the wild
Indie Game Developers (235): Independent game developers group
Project Lucky Luciano Slack Group (56): Channel of the blog where author tells how he writes his own video-game

Games

PokemonGo-Bot (13000): Slack bot that announces nearby pokemon to channel(s)
Screeps (3595): MMO strategy sandbox game
#Gaming (2900): Slack community for gamers to chat and play video games
Stimhack (1670): A Community for Netrunner Players (unofficial fan site of the Android: Netrunner game)
FirstBlood (1662): eSport platform place
Ace3mod (1176): The realism mod for Arma 3
RPG Talk (1136): All your favourite role-playing games discussions in one place
X-Wing Games (XWingTMG) (533): Place to chat about list building, battle reports, the latest announcements and everything else related to tiny plastic spaceships
Fantasy Football News Bot (375): Channel for fantasy football news and fantasy footballers
PICO-8 (328): Fantasy console by Joseph White for making, sharing and playing tiny games
DND RPG (215): Dungeons & Dragons game chat with loads of interesting stuff
Bet With Confidence (166): Sports forecasts
The MUD Coders Guild (165): Community of guys who love Multi User Dungeon games (mostly text)
Idi-systems (ACRE) (151): Discussions on Advanced Combat Radio Environment 2 (ACRE2) for Arma 3
Getwrecked (132): Community of Get Wrecked (mobile game app)
Chipsters (125): Community of C.H.I.P. and Pocket C.H.I.P. users
Beowulf Strategic Operations (105): Arma game (Beowulf Strategic Operations) community
Gamestah TV (86): Community for Oceanic esports and gaming streamers
PJWarriors (57): Slack team of Clash Of Clan users
Raiders of the Lost Arc (48): Gamers guild place to hangout
RotoBistro (40): Community for folks that love DFS (Daily Fantasy Sports)
MMBN (27): Megaman Battle Network
Star Wars Battlefront (25): EA Star Wars Battlefront players to share friend-tags, news, alert others to streams and more
Magic The Gathering (#MTG) (21): Place to discuss everything about game Magic: The Gathering
Megga Minecrafters (9): Minecraft game on LBSG servers
DIM (n/a): Place to meet with other Guardians, stay updated and to reach out to the creators of Destiny Item Manager 24/7
Esports Professional Network (n/a): Cybersport community for newbies and professionals
North Side Trainers (n/a): Guys who use slack to chat together and send notifications to your phone when rare pokemon spawn nearby

Slack

Learn Slack (600): Place where people learn about Slack and share cool tips and tricks
Lighthouse (Slack Admins) (213): The first Slack admins chat
Profit Society (132): Social club for people who wants to create paid Slack community and start making money of it
Modtalk (n/a): Slack moderators and community managers to talk about growth and enrichment
ModTalk (n/a): Another group for people who run or mod Slack communities

Startups and Product Development

Spec Network (8329): Global community of developers and designers
Launch (8300): Populous group of entrepreneurs, designers and makers
Startup Study Group (7838): Founders, startupers and investors
MindTheProduct (7300): International product community
Product School (6527): Part-time product management courses
Startup Foundation (6450): One of the most advanced startup communities. Paid access — $29 one time entry fee
Product Manager HQ (3200): Community focused on product creation and development. Paid access — $25 one time entry fee
TechMasters (2882): Project founders and tech professionals. Place to get an advice on programming and find answers to business questions
Amateurpreneur (1715): Place where beginners can get feedback and discuss progress or strategy
Trello Community on Slack (1709): Official chat of Trello task tracker
Startups Live (1042) Slack chat with startup founders every day at 11am EST. Paid access — $29 every month
CreativeTribes (1000): Startup people to share and discuss tribe-building strategies, experiences and resources. Paid access — $25 one time entry fee
Directed Discovery (414): Directed Discovery or DD — product development technique
Digital Artisans (320): Programmers, designers, managers and entrepreneurs about creation and development of digital products
#Agile (318): Chat community for talking about all things agile: from software engineering to scrum mastering, methodologies, culture, process and anything else
Digital Project Managers (280): Slack chat for PMs
CollabHub (266): Another cozy community of professionals from different fields of startup industry
PMA LA Slack Community (245): Product Managers from the LA and Southern California area
Agendashift (241): Place where Lean, Agile and Kanban method experts hang out
Startup Resources (230): Curated lists of the best startup tools and the startup community
MattKremer.com (222): Discussion on programming, building MVP, and business strategies
The Hustle (187): The community behind thehustle.co to discuss entrepreneurship, tech, business ventures, music, etc.
Business Analyst (156): Community of business analysts from all around the world
The HQ (97): Discussions focused on education and consulting for startups
StartupLancing (65): Launch, development and ways to meet partners
Go Global Go Big (50): Place for people from all over the world who is interested in international business and global expansion
Project 1440 (49): Small group to talk about productivity and personal development
Power BI User Community (38): BI experts united
Pineapple Formula (3): Place to look for digital tips to help business grow
#Productmanagers (n/a): Talks about all the things relevant to product management
#Smaillbiz (n/a): Small and medium businesses development
Business China (n/a): Channel for Chinese interested in doing business in US and Americans interested in doing business in China
Crowdfund Research (n/a): Investors and startup founders discuss everything about equity crowdfunding
Founded X (n/a): Global community of startup founders
ProductHunt Global (n/a): Community where general meetings get arranged and everything about Product Hunt launch gets discussed
SaaS Alliance (n/a): SaaS founders & professionals
SaaS Founders (n/a): SaaS owners group on Slack
Support Driven (n/a): Community for SaaS support professionals
TechStartupFounders (n/a): Place for startup founders and co-founders to discuss their interests
TechyBytes (n/a): Slack group where developers, designers and students discuss tech and growth of the industry
UpLabs (n/a): Web and mobile professionals talk about design, development and share feedback
Founderr (n/a): Group of entrepreneurs, founders, VC’s, designers, developers, etc. Paid access — £1 every month

Miscellaneous

Sideproject (1194): Place to find collaborators or join side projects
Layer (261): Customer conversation platform
YesGraph Community (114): User invite flow solution
Tech 2025 (n/a): Community focused on technologies that will impact our world in the next 10 years including AI, Machine Learning, VR/AR/MR, etc.
Tribe of Angels (n/a): Place where Jewish entrepreneurs, investors and students chat about things

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