The best startup communities in 2025
Product Hunt
—The place to discover your next favorite thing
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Founded in 2013 as a tiny side project, Product Hunt has become the place for makers and companies to launch their latest app, gadget, or physical products to the world. It's a global community of friendly folks sharing and discussing the latest in tech.
Y Combinator
—Make something people want.
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Y Combinator is an American seed accelerator launched in March 2005 and was used to launch over 2,000 companies including Dropbox, Airbnb, Stripe, Reddit, Optimizely, Zenefits, Docker, DoorDash, Mixpanel, Heroku.
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Microsoft for Startup Founders Hub provides founders with free resources to help overcome the challenges startups face- including Azure credits, development and productivity tools, mentorship resources, and more. Open to all, no funding required.
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AWS Activate is a comprehensive program designed to support startups and businesses and provide them with the resources and tools they need to build and scale their businesses on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud platform.
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AngelList is building the infrastructure that powers the startup economy, providing startups and investors with the connected tools they need to launch and scale a startup or fund—and invest in both.
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Work on your idea, MVP, or existing product for 12 weeks. If you launch, get users, and demonstrate product velocity, you'll have a chance at receiving a $25k investment. Accepting 200+ builder founders for our upcoming cohort and look to invest in 30 teams.
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We keep everyone updated on cool makers and their great products. Sometimes we can be funny too.
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Crunchbase information includes investments and funding information, founding members and individuals in leadership positions, mergers and acquisitions, news, and industry trends.
Product School
—The global leader in product management training- Overview
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Product School is a for-profit tech business school founded by Carlos González de Villaumbrosia in 2014. 1st tech business school offering certificates in Product Management in 20 campuses across the world and Online. #ProdMgmt 🌏📚
Indie Hackers
—Real stories from real startup founders.- Overview
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Indie Hackers is a place where the founders of profitable businesses and side projects can share their stories transparently, and where entrepreneurs can come to read and learn from those examples. It's also a community where individual "indie hackers" come together to share their experiences, give and receive feedback, and rely on each other for support.
