Community Deals

Indie Hackers served as a knowledge-sharing platform for SaaS founders, a valuable audience for Stripe’s financial services. Stripe bought the business in 2017, and six years later, the founders bought it back.

Instead of selling her company, The Fertility Tribe founder Kristyn Hodgdon joined forces with a tech startup to launch Rescripted, a fertility treatment platform and community.

When pay equity startup 81cents founder Jordan Sale was considering joining another company through an acquihire, she explored the option in an unusual way: by going on a 12-hour road trip with the potential buyer.

Mind The Product switched from in-person events to online memberships to survive the pandemic. The move also led to its sale to software company Pendo.

This company started as a weekly Twitter chat for beginner coders, before growing to a community of more than 100,000 programmers.

This is the story of how Anna Maste and Marianne Edwards, a mother-daughter duo, bootstrapped and sold a membership site for RVers called Boondockers Welcome.