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Ask HN: Solo founder support group?

35 points by bostonhacker ↗ HN
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.

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itamarst
Start your own? I'm in Boston, MA area and working on a side project. itamar@codewithoutrules.com
throwawaz
if you start a slack channel, I'll join--I have the same issue
iisbum
Would be interested in something like this too, if you start/find something would love to join too.
adx314
Interested as well...
davidlee1435
i'd be interested in a slack channel as well
bostonhacker
Ok - 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/ Slack channel https://solojourney.slack.com/

tylercubell
Perhaps 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.

acedinlowball
I 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
I'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.
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singold
Loved this, just registered to the forum and send email :)
alantrum
Interested as well. I signed up on the google form
tixocloud
I'm interested as well and would be happy to help out with the maintenance of the group.