Any communities for bootstrappers? I know indiehackers.com already, but I'm missing something more communal, e.g. on Slack, Discord or a FB group. Especially as a solo-founder, it'd be nice to have more of a community to share experiences with.
Best online communities for software developers
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#42I don't think reddit is a good use of a programmer's time these days if you are seeking community. There are a few exceptional subreddits, but /r/programming, /r/learnprogramming, /r/webdev, and /r/compsci all have a low signal:noise ratio because all of them are majority undergrads or professionals who have under a year in the field. As other people have noted in this thread, dev.to has the same problem. I haven't f…
I think the general rule for reddit is: the more specific the subreddit, the less noise and the better the conversations, not just with tech, but most of them. Once you have people who actually care about something specific, they will maintain the quality of their discourse.
I agree with that observation when it comes to reddit. But it makes me wonder why HN still contains a high signal to noise ratio despite not having subforums.
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#43I don't think reddit is a good use of a programmer's time these days if you are seeking community. There are a few exceptional subreddits, but /r/programming, /r/learnprogramming, /r/webdev, and /r/compsci all have a low signal:noise ratio because all of them are majority undergrads or professionals who have under a year in the field. As other people have noted in this thread, dev.to has the same problem. I haven't f…
Would you mind sharing what the exception communities are? I've found some really insightful comments in /r/javascript from the creators of selenium for example; but the noise to signal is very low as you mentioned. /r/reactjs is another decent community as the maintainers do post in the comments. I like /r/coding but it's pretty dead and sometimes /r/scala will have decent blog posts. Also /r/hnblogs is very decent,…
The reason I have a reddit account in the first place is /r/rust. It was and still is one of the central discussion places of the community, more so today now that IRC has been killed. /r/linux is a great place to hang out as well, at least if you are interested in FLOSS related things. Sometimes you'll even see someone like gregkh chime in.
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#44I expected to see IRC communities as well. Is there a collection of communities that aren't hosted by corporations?
There's plenty of interesting places on IRC, mailing list, XMPP, Mastodon. Downvote me to hell, but best communities I hang out in are far from shiny/hip/popular, and this is why they are good.
I've been looking on Mastadon, and not finding that much. Especially compared to Twitter. Might just be where I'm looking though.
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IndieHackers? https://www.indiehackers.com
Thank you so much! (Have been looking for this for a while and forgot the domain)
Although there's some mix up with bootstraped and bought out vc stories in indihackers, I'd say it's more geared to the first one more than the second
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#46I expected to see IRC communities as well. Is there a collection of communities that aren't hosted by corporations?
I don’t know if you consider freenode to be “hosted by corporations” but if you don’t, the channels dedicated to both specific libraries and the languages themselves are at least active, last I checked.
The one downside I’d point out is that language channels tend to be filled with purists, of the, “ you shouldn’t want to do that” variety.
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#47Surprised to see codeproject so popular without me knowing about it :)
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#48No mention of IRC? There's still dedicated channels for many-a-thing on Freenode and others.
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#49Any communities for bootstrappers? I know indiehackers.com already, but I'm missing something more communal, e.g. on Slack, Discord or a FB group. Especially as a solo-founder, it'd be nice to have more of a community to share experiences with.
Seconded. I miss technical conversations with colleagues, and while I have my ex-colleagues chat, nothing really replaces the Slack with other engineers at your company.
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Would you mind sharing what the exception communities are? I've found some really insightful comments in /r/javascript from the creators of selenium for example; but the noise to signal is very low as you mentioned. /r/reactjs is another decent community as the maintainers do post in the comments. I like /r/coding but it's pretty dead and sometimes /r/scala will have decent blog posts. Also /r/hnblogs is very decent,…
/r/programminglanguages has good content. Most of the contributors are hobbyists, and some are just starting out, but there are always good discussions to be had.
Seconded. It may not be the content you want, depending on what you're looking for, but there is a lot of great, informative content on that sub.