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Weekend Club — The weekend co-working club for bootstrappers to ship faster
We're the #1 weekend co-working club for bootstrappers to stay motivated, get helpful feedback and ship your project faster. Live sessions Saturdays 10am-5pm GMT & US Central time with a dedicated host, run over Slack & Zoom. Plus 100+ software discounts. 🤯
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Congrats on the launch! The world needs more communities that actively bring people together.
Weekend Club is easily one of the best things to come out of London's Tech Community for years.
I was lucky enough to be one of the first "users" back when we could meet in person. From day one, Charlie's vision was to make sure that Indie Hackers Ship and learn from each other and he's pulled it off.
I really enjoyed turning up, hammering my project so I would have something to share at the end of the session and seeing what others had built - a few things actually becoming revenue generating products.
Now it's online so open to way more people than the few of us that can make it to East London on a Sunday morning.
Highly recommend checking out Weekend Club if you want to meet Indie Hackers who ship!
I’ve been following Weekend Club for a long time and it’s a fantastic + supportive community of people building amazing things. Congrats on the PH launch @charlierward!
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.
There's genuinely something super powerful about being part of a small, close-knit community and that's exactly what weekend club is about. It's proved invaluable for me and my product wouldn't be where it is today without it. Congratulations Charlie!
Another Weekend Clubber here. How valuable is this community, you ask? I was waking up at 5am EST so I didn't miss the kick off meetings every Saturday at 8am GMT. And now Weekend Club is in US timezones!
Weekend Club has become a wonderful ritual for me, every Saturday I'm working on my Open Source side projects, and every week @charlierward and the other weekenders are there keeping me accountable for my goals! The Slack group is also a great place to ask for advice and share each other's wins! Would recommend.
@charlierward Is a complete legend. He schooled me on the side hustle game (starting with unicorn pool floats and gourmet chicken nuggets).
@tomlebree Haha those were the days... can't wait for our long coming catchup beer
Bootstrapping is indeed an uphill journey, and so is building a strong community. @charlierward is doing an incredible job, at bringing both these pieces together at Weekend Club! 🚀
While the hangs might just be for the weekend, the relationships & support formed are for the long haul 💪🏾
I've been a member of many communities, but never anything like Weekend Club.
Community building is a full-time job. The community builder behind it all needs to spend time onboarding and nurturing each and every user.
@charlierward puts in the work and has built something special. This is the best investment I made in myself within the past 5 years.
@panphora Dude you're such a legend, thanks for all the continued support for me and everyone else at Weekend Club
Love this, I've been to events hosted by @charlierward and he's a master community builder. Having a club like this to capstone your week and multiply your efforts is key to getting your ideas off the ground
Boom! This is amazing! Congrats Charlie! Have very much enjoyed watching you building this community on Twitter and share your journey!!
👋 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 👇
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!
Hi - Love this concept! Wondering, is this drop-in friendly? I would love to both contribute to & benefit from the community but I have two babies at home & will often be pulled away right in the middle of deep work-mode. Particularly a challenge with Covid & lack of childcare! 🙄 Either way, congrats on this launch. Would love to join! 🥳
@juliache Hey Julia! Thank you for the support. Yes you don't have to stay for an entire session duration, or attend every week. Many of our members drop in for half a day to get things done. Also our Slack is accessible 24/7 of course. Would love it if you checked us out <3
Hey @charlierward congrats on the launch! What do you have in store for Weekend Club in the coming weeks?
@ramlijohn Thanks Ramli! Well I'm looking to keep building the Americas time zone side of Weekend Club, and hopefully find another host. After that I'm hoping to start trialling 'Weekday Club' - for full-time founders who want to work during the week. Also, the pod we recorded is dropping. Should be a good few weeks!
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