👋 Hello you, Charlie here, founder of Weekend Club. By day I work as a UX Researcher and love making products, but my true passion is community building. Let me tell you why I started the community that I myself really wanted: 😱 The challenge Bootstrapping is hard. It’s even harder on your own. When I started building side projects (to someday escape my day job), I didn’t know anyone else doing it. This meant I: ❌ Made common mistakes that could’ve been avoided. ❌ Took a long time to make progress, getting blocked often. ❌ Lacked structure, motivation and encouragement. ❌ Generally felt like I was on a lonely journey. I thought 'there must be a better way.' 🛠 Enter Weekend Club ✅ Remote, weekly Saturday coworking sessions (10am-5pm) on both GMT and US Central time (great for Europe or Americas based founders). ✅ A great community of smart, kind, supportive founders from companies like VEED, Commsor, Simple Poll, Embarque, Indie Bites and more. ✅ 100+ software discounts on things like Stripe, Airtable, AWS and much more. Hear from our members: https://testimonial.to/weekend-c... (thanks so much to @panphora for getting these together ) For the Product Hunt community, use code ‘PRODUCTHUNT’ at sign-up for 50% off your first month (if you subscribe after the 30-day free trial). Finally, a huge thank you to all of the incredible Weekend Club members, I'm in awe of you and forever grateful you're part of this journey. And a special thanks to our awesome hosts @jmckinven & Abhishek, plus @wilhelmklopp for encouraging me to make the leap and try this out. Would love to hear what you think, let me know in the comments 👇

I’ve been part of the London indie hacker community since Charlie ran IndieBeers (back when we could enjoy pubs) and has been extremely satisfying seeing him launch an IRL Weekend Club in late 2019, and then pivoting to our current format when the pandemic forced many business models to change. The Weekend Club community has had the single biggest impact on my life in the past 2 years and is a place I genuinely feel like I belong. Everyone is supportive and helpful, giving me feedback, advice and encouragement where I need it. If it wasn’t for Weekend Club I wouldn’t have made any progress on any of my side projects and certainly wouldn’t have launched my Indie Bites podcast. The weekend sessions are incredibly helpful and I've even had the pleasure of being a regular host for both our UK and US cohorts. I can't wait to see this grow and thrive. I’ve genuinely met some lifelong friends through Weekend Club and will continue to do so as more people join the community!

I joined a few months ago and LOVE IT. This awesome community has got me through loads of dips and helped me celebrate successes whilst bootstrapping. If you're a solo founder I can't think of a better ROI for your mental health & network. It's really fun too. Congrats on the launch @charlierward - you're killing it!

Thank you for all you've done for indie makers like myself Charlie! Let's get Weekend Club to the top!

Best thing about Weekend Club is that it gently keeps you accountable and aligned with your goals. Congratulations @charlierward and thank you for your hard work supporting the London startup community.

Another Weekender here... Weekend Club is such a part of my life now, my friends know at the weekends I'll be "Doing Hackers" and throughout the week we're all generally on Slack helping each other out or just hanging out. It's been a lifeline for both Indie Hacking development *and* human contact in the pandemic. I think it's safe to say we've all built up some great friendships over this time, and we support each other's challenges, root for each other's launches, and celebrate each other's wins. And when all this is over, we'll be drinking beers again like we used to do (as this used to be an IRL meetup, and may be again one day) *sob* !

I only joined weekend club a few weeks ago, but the community is absolutely amazing! Weekend club has been so incredibly friendly, helpful and supportive from the start, it feels like I found a part of the internet I can call home

Oh yesss! Congrats Charlie. Huge fan of IH London (and been meaning to sign up to this) for goodness knows how long. Good luck Brute Chieftan! Looks great.

Congrats on the launch! The world needs more communities that actively bring people together.

Weekend club is an awesome, super supportive community! Congrats @charlierward on the launch!

Making and growing bootstrapped businesses is super tough. You're often slogging away, in isolation without any feedback loops or fresh pair of eyes to solve that problem you've been grappling with forever. This is why Weekend Club has and is so transformative for bootstrapped founders. It gives you that point of connection to likeminded creators who you can get positive vibes from to keep you going or more technical actionable advice to apply to your business. Moral of the story, don't build in isolation, build in a community, who will get you where you want to go faster! Congrats on launch @charlierward !!

Been part of Weekend Club for some time now and absolutely love the community. I have met a lot of amazing people, learnt a lot and also made some incredible friends too! Great work @charlierward you deserve this!

I've met some really cool people since joining Weekend Club. Those connections and the accountability focus of this group make it so valuable to me and I would say, any solo founder, entrepreneur and maker. Charlie's warm and welcome attitude + leadership add the extra ingredient that makes this such a special place to spend my Saturday's. Thanks, Charlie, for putting on WC and brining everyone together!

Hey @charlierward congrats on the launch! What do you have in store for Weekend Club in the coming weeks?

Congrats with the launch @charlierward 👏🏻

Congrats! Weekend is a very supportive club.🎉

It's fair to assume that I wouldn't be doing my podcast if it wasn't for the weekend club. A creator's journey is lonely and it's great to have a community at the end of each week that supports you and keeps you accountable. Charlie has built a home for indie makers and I'm excited for the next phase of the weekend club :)

Huge congrats!

Congrats on your launch 🚀 it’s been awesome seeing weekend club grow from an IRL group to managing weekly sessions for Europe and Americas based founders! I can see you going global 🎉

Weekend Club member here. LOVE this community. Got so much support in getting my first customer and learning what's involved in starting a business thanks to Charlie and all the lovely members. Good luck on the PH launch dude! 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀