The founder community I need

https://x.com/fdotinc/status/1868854980767367330

"Building something for yourself. Work on things you wish existed."

I've been building community software that I wish existed when i was managing communities. But that was in the past. I haven't been building any communities since i started building this software.

Not cool. I've decided to fix it in 2025. Why?

• Success guaranteed. Even if I'm the only person who uses the next tool that I create, I win. If not even I'm using it, I'm screwed.
• Dogfooding my product. I've got some wild product ideas. There's no immediate market for some of them. So do i choose - begging everyone i know to try my new product idea OR using the tool myself and showing the results to the world?  
• Build the community of my dreams!

I'm building this software to see the kind of communities that I wish existed. So I have to start building a community. What kind of community?

Well, a community for "creator founders". Like Every's Dan Shipper. There's never been a better time to be a creator with a vision. All the tools and knowledge are freely available. All that's missing is your motivation to bring it to life.

That's what this community will be for.

Community operating principles

This community will be open for anyone to join who's okay with our operating principles:

• No self-promotion: this is not the place for self-promotion. it's the place for self-improvement.
• Connect with fellow founders, not prospects. We are built for fostering meaningful connections with other founders. They can be your mentors, mentees, peers. Don't come here to find prospects. If you're reported, you get banned for life.
• Participate in challenges. We'll run two year-round challenges: 1. grow your email list 2. grow your MRR. "Learn to build. Learn to sell. If you can do both, you'll be unstoppable." – Naval
• Want it? Lead it. Want a subgroup or a particular meetup? Apply to host it. We're happy to share the stage with you.
• Support available. All of these goals will be supported by exclusive interviews, community-vetted resources, live coworking sessions and your own hardwork.

No chats though. Farza got it right. Chat is a distraction. You should spend all your time either creating or talking to users. Nobody built a company by chatting.

Need help? Ask the AI or send a warm email to another member or bring it up in our weekly masterminds.

Want to share your wins? Post an update in the challenge.

Want to connect with others? Send a warm email or join a matchmaking program.

No discussions, no chitter chatter, no channels.

Another online founder community? Are you sure?

Yes because I've been a part of every online founder community and I'm tired of being disappointed.

• Either nothing is happening in them. Like most communities.
• Or people are either trying to sell stuff to other members - including the community creator.
• Or both.

Some of them have active chats and expert workshops but those are not useful most of the time. Because founders already have an abundance of knowledge.

Knowledge is abundant, motivation is scarce.

– Naval

What we need is a community that acts as an accelerator. It's sole goal should be to accelerate member's business. Not revenue. Not growth. Not even member engagement.

Because even with all the abundant AI, what is still valuable and rare is the more ephemerous things. Things like motivation, raising your ambition, finding your tribe, connections to the right people and hyper specific piece of information you can't find on the internet.

I want to build the community that gives these things to founders and creators like me.