Building a serious community for founders/builders. Any of you wanna join?
I’m building a Discord community called Northstar for ambitious founders, builders, developers, designers, indie hackers, AI builders, and people working on meaningful things.
The idea is simple.
Most startup communities either become:
- dead after a few weeks
- low quality networking groups
- pure self promotion
- full of people talking instead of building
I want to build something different.
The plan is to create a high-signal builder community focused on:
- build in public
- startup feedback
- finding cofounders / teammates
- weekly build challenges
- hackathons
- founder co-working
- growth discussions
- AI / SaaS / product building
- member spotlights
Long term, the most active and exceptional members would be invited into a smaller curated inner circle.
Before scaling this, I wanted honest feedback from people here.
A few questions:
- What makes you actually stay active in a founder/builder community?
- What immediately makes you leave?
- Do you prefer large open communities or smaller curated ones?
- What is missing from most startup communities today?
- What events or features would genuinely be useful?
Not here to hard sell anything. I genuinely want to build something people would actually find valuable.