Founder Circles matches you with 8–12 verified founders building in your space. You get a private room, real relationships, and people who genuinely want to see what you're making.
$13.99/year for the first 100 members $99 · Every member verified by hand
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Most of them build alone
You will stop building alone.
You become part of a carefully matched group of founders who know you, understand your product, and want to see you succeed.
Applications
Everyone who wants in
Your circle
Matched on niche, stage and timezone
Six steps from applying to having a circle that actually knows what you're building.
Free. No card.
A human checks you are real.
Only once you are accepted.
Into a circle that fits.
Tell us your X handle, your niche, what you are building, who it is for, your language and timezone. No card, no charge.
A real person checks that you are you and that your product is real. Only once you are accepted do we ask you to pay.
Eight to twelve founders building in your space, at roughly your stage. Small enough that everyone actually knows everyone.
Introduce yourself, share what you are building, post launches, ask for opinions, drop links to the X posts that matter to you.
Members open your links on X and get behind the work they actually rate. Real support from people who understand what you are building.
Every few months we introduce new compatible members while keeping the relationships you have already built intact.
A slow board, not a noisy chat. Nothing you post gets buried, and nothing pings you at midnight.
Postbeam v2 is live. Rewrote the pricing page around one plan instead of three — conversion doubled in a week.
Jonas The one-plan move is right. What made you cut the middle tier?
Stuck on dev onboarding — people sign up, generate one API key, then vanish. Anyone solved this activation gap?
Amara Ship a working curl in the welcome email. Docs are a wall when you have momentum.
Maya Same pattern for us. Time-to-first-call was the only metric that moved retention.
Members · 9 of 12
Maya Chen
@mayac
Jonas Dahl
@jonasd
Amara Kone
@amarak
Rui Santos
@ruis
+5 more
House rules
Intro
Who you are, what you build
Building
What you shipped this week
Launch
Something is live
X post
Share a link
Need help
Ask for a hand
Small enough that everyone knows your name and your product. Quiet enough that nothing you post gets buried. This is where the actual relationships happen.
Then it moves to X. Members open the links you share and get behind the work they rate — because they know you and know what you are building.
Culture, not mechanics. Break these and you lose your seat.
Feedback from people who have shipped it before. Introductions to the customers you are trying to reach. An audience that grows because founders genuinely rate what you are making — never because anyone owed you a like.
Post the pricing page, the onboarding flow, the half-finished idea. You get answers from founders who shipped the same thing last quarter — not "looks great!" from strangers.
The people building next to you already talk to the people you are trying to reach. One warm intro from inside a circle does more than a month of cold outreach.
When your launch lands, 8–12 founders who actually understand it are there to say so. Nothing is owed, nothing is traded — which is exactly why it carries.
A weekly rhythm and a room that notices when you go quiet. Most indie products die of silence long before they die of competition.
None of it is transactional — no quotas, no follow-for-follow, nothing to trade. That is a deliberate line, and it is the same one X's authenticity policy draws.
8–12 verified founders in your space, hand-matched and re-mixed every few months.
Intros, build updates, launches and honest questions. No feed, no algorithm, no strangers.
Share the X posts that matter to you. Members decide for themselves what to do with them.
shipped.so/@you — every product you have built, with pitch, stack and revenue. Public and free to share.
One email a week with what your circle shipped, launched and needs help with. Nothing else.
Manual verification, reporting, and removal of people who take without ever giving.
Not before. Half-empty rooms are why every other community dies.
Your public Shipped page carries a circle member badge. It signals you were verified by a human and vouched for by a room of founders — without ever revealing which circle you are in, or who else is in it.
shipped.so/mayac
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Products
'23
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Circle
Annual only — it keeps out the people who were never going to show up. The first 200 seats are discounted off the $99 price, in two stages, and whichever you get in at is the rate you keep for as long as you stay.
Save 86% — and it stays that price for as long as you stay
If we can't place you in a circle that fits, you get your money back.
No. There are no points, no follow-for-follow and nothing to trade. What you pay for is matching, a private room and moderation — the people, not the numbers.
Access to a carefully matched, manually verified network of founders in your space, a private room to work in, and the moderation that keeps it worth being in.
$99 is the real price. The first 100 members pay $13.99 and the next 100 pay $49, because early members are joining something that is still proving itself and taking that risk should cost less. Whichever rate you join at is the rate you keep for as long as you stay — it does not jump to $99 on renewal.
The price moves to $49/year for the next 100 seats, then to the standard $99. Nothing about the membership changes — same matching, same room, same moderation. Only the price does.
No. You just tell us your handle so your circle can find you. We do not use the X API, we never post on your behalf, we never read your DMs and we never automate anything on your account.
A circle only opens once at least eight verified members have joined, and members who consistently never show up are removed. If a circle stops working for you, tell us and we will move you.
Under-followed solo founders, indie hackers and small teams who are genuinely building something. If you have a real product and a small audience, you are exactly who this is for.
If we cannot place you in a circle that fits, you get your money back.
Every week we feature a founder or indie hacker worth knowing about — what they built, how they got their first users, and what they'd do differently.
Eight to twelve founders who know your name, understand your product, and are genuinely glad when you win. That's the whole thing.
Apply for a circle$13.99/year for the first 100 members, then $49, then $99