100+ Slack Communities for a Startup CEO

Product Talks: 114 communities, explore them all.

Alex Kistenev
Frontiers
7 min readJun 21, 2017

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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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Table of contents

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

Design, UI/UX

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

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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Alex Kistenev
Frontiers

A father, husband, co-founder at Standuply.com and Simplewallet.one. Over 500,000 views on Medium!