Community

The founder/operator community in Bengaluru. Monthly dinners, a real network, no hype.

Bengaluru · virtual · invite

Cohort-based founder community. The ODF (Founder) cohort is the strongest for first-time founders.

virtual · $250-750/cohort

The best free founder curriculum. Even if you never apply to YC, do Startup School.

virtual · free

For bootstrapped and indie founders. The interviews are worth the visit alone.

virtual · free

A surprisingly honest founder forum. Skip the memes, read the failure postmortems.

virtual · free

The largest API builder community. Great for builders shipping products with public APIs.

virtual · free

The friendliest engineering community on the web. Publish what you learn, build an audience.

virtual · free

The default watering hole for builders and technical founders. Read the comments, not just the posts.

virtual · free

The India-focused offshoot. Good for rupee-denominated problems like GST and payments.

virtual · free

The local founder dinner I recommend to every founder. 4-8 founders, monthly, no agenda.

your city · free

Deep dives on the greatest companies ever built. Two hours per episode, worth every minute.

The venture firm's take on technology and business trends. Good signal for what's coming.

David Senra reads biographies of founders and distills the lessons. History repeats.

Long-form conversations with builders and scientists. The engineering episodes are gold.

The best practical web development podcast. Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski keep it real.

Shane Parrish interviews operators about mental models and decision-making.

For builders shipping AI products, not AI researchers. Grounded, practical, current.

Reid Hoffman interviews founders on how to scale. Episode quality varies; the early ones are best.

Ben Horowitz on the parts of being a founder nobody talks about. Read it before you need it.

Peter Thiel on creating value with technology. The contrarian questions are the point.

How to talk to customers without leading the witness. The 90-minute read that fixes your interviews.

The systems approach to personal change. Not founder-specific, but it's the operating manual for consistency.

The engineering bible. If you build data pipelines or databases, this is required reading.

Robert C. Martin on software structure. Controversial in places, but the principles are sound.

The classic that teaches you to think like a software engineer. Still relevant after 20 years.

Jim Collins on what separates enduring companies. The hedgehog concept alone is worth the read.

Product launches and founder stories. The community is the value.

Free to watch online. The best education in pitch structure and traction framing.

Language-specific engineering conferences. The talks are on YouTube free forever after.

Cloud conferences. Watch the keynotes online; skip the travel unless you're a cloud architect.

Indian founder conferences. Good for the India-specific network (funding, hiring, GST).