A good SaaS community saves you months: someone has already priced a product like yours, hired the role you're hiring, or sold to the buyer you're chasing. But most lists of SaaS communities recycle names that went quiet years ago. Khrystyna Oleksiienko of LeadWave has saved 33 communities in her reading list since 2022. On November 10, 2026, we checked every one of them, plus the 12 that other lists cite most, and kept the ones that are active today.
The short version: 14 made the cut. Indie Hackers and r/SaaS are the free places to start if you're building. Pavilion, RevGenius and Exit Five are the main ones if you sell or market SaaS. And only 7 of the 33 communities Khrystyna had saved are still active communities.
Best SaaS communities in 2026
Open and free ones first, then by how useful each is to people who build or sell SaaS:
Indie Hackers: free forum for bootstrapped founders who share real revenue
r/SaaS: the biggest SaaS forum, 843,000 members
Pavilion: paid network and training for sales, marketing and RevOps leaders
RevGenius: free Slack for go-to-market people, 50,000+ members
Exit Five: paid community for B2B marketers, 7,000+ members
MicroConf Connect: vetted Slack for bootstrapped SaaS founders
SaaStr: the biggest SaaS conference series, now SaaStr AI
SaasRise: weekly masterminds for SaaS CEOs at $1M–$100M ARR
Hampton: vetted peer groups for founders of $3M+ revenue companies
Partnership Leaders: Slack and events for partnership and channel teams
Superpath: paid Slack for content marketers
Women of SaaS: free network for women in SaaS, with hubs in 13 cities
Ramen Club: paid Slack for early bootstrapped founders
Led by Community: network for community managers, with city chapters
Key numbers
Most saved "communities" aren't. Of the 33 links filed as communities in Khrystyna's list, 7 are active communities today, 4 have gone quiet, 15 turned out to be courses, newsletters, tools or consultancies, and 7 shut down or became something else.
Six are free to join. Indie Hackers, r/SaaS, RevGenius's Slack, Women of SaaS, Led by Community's basic tier and SaaStr's content cost nothing.
Paid ones cost $444 to $2,364 a year for the entry plan, from Exit Five to SaasRise, among those priced in dollars; Ramen Club, priced in pounds, is £260. Five of the 14 make you apply first.
One giant. r/SaaS has about 843,000 members, more than ten times the other communities here that publish a count, combined.
Source: each community's own pages, checked Nov 10, 2026; r/SaaS from GummySearch and Hive Index, which mirror the subreddit's count. Indie Hackers, SaaStr and MicroConf publish no member count.
Source: LeadWave check of each site, Nov 10, 2026. One of the 7 active communities, Workweek, serves HR, fintech and other professions, not SaaS, so it isn't on the list.
Communities for SaaS founders
Indie Hackers
Indie Hackers is where founders of small software businesses post what they earn, what they launched and what went wrong. Courtland and Channing Allen started it, sold it to Stripe in 2017 and took it back in 2023, so it's independent again. Threads on pricing, first customers and growth tactics come with real numbers, and the old founder interviews are still worth reading. Free to read, free to post.
indiehackers.com · Forum · free · open
r/SaaS
r/SaaS is the biggest SaaS community anywhere, with about 843,000 members, and it nearly doubled in the past year by GummySearch's count. It's open and noisy: launch posts, feedback requests and growth questions, with a lot of self-promotion mixed in. Good for quick answers and for seeing what founders worry about this week. Free.
reddit.com/r/SaaS · Subreddit · free · open
MicroConf Connect
MicroConf, co-founded by Rob Walling, has run conferences for bootstrapped SaaS founders for years; Connect is its year-round community. It's a vetted, founders-only Slack with masterminds and quarterly Ask Rob Anything sessions, for $49 a month or $499 a year. You apply first, and founders must be bootstrapped or mostly bootstrapped; VCs and service providers looking for clients aren't let in. The next conferences are in Austin (April 2027) and Dubrovnik (October 2027).
microconf.com/connect · Slack, masterminds and conferences · $499/yr · application
SaasRise
SaasRise, run by Ryan Allis (who sold iContact for $169M), puts SaaS CEOs with $1M to $100M in ARR into peer masterminds: five optional 60-minute calls a week, plus a private Slack and member directory. It costs $197 a month, after an application and a 14-day trial. Its site counts 438 members. It also sells growth and exit consulting, so expect some upselling.
saasrise.com · Zoom masterminds and Slack · $197/mo · application · From Khrystyna's list
Hampton
Hampton, founded by Sam Parr (The Hustle, My First Million) and Joe Speiser, puts established founders into moderated groups of 8–10 that meet every month, plus a private Slack and 100+ events a year. To get in you need $3M+ in revenue, $3M+ raised or an exit above $10M, and you must live near one of its 18 chapter cities. It has over 1,000 members. It doesn't publish its price.
joinhampton.com · In-person groups and Slack · price not published · application · From Khrystyna's list
Ramen Club
Charlie Ward's Ramen Club, started in 2019 as Weekend Club, is for founders who aren't profitable yet: about a quarter of members haven't built their product. Members get mastermind pairings, two live classes a month and a monthly demo day, in a Slack of 500+ founders. It costs £65 a quarter or £170 for life, with no revenue minimum. Its London coworking space is a separate membership.
ramenclub.com · Slack, classes and demo days · £65 a quarter · open
Communities for sales, marketing and partnerships
Pavilion
Pavilion, started by Sam Jacobs in 2016 as Revenue Collective, is the best-known paid network for go-to-market leaders: 5,000+ executives in a private Slack, local chapters and dinners, and Pavilion University courses such as an eight-week AI in GTM school. Membership is by seniority: Associate costs $1,375 a year, Executive $2,700, and the invite-only Gold tier for leaders at $100M+ ARR companies $7,400 (North American prices; Europe and Asia pay less). It held its tenth-anniversary GTM2026 conference in New York in September.
joinpavilion.com · Slack, chapters and courses · from $1,375/yr · application
RevGenius
RevGenius is a free Slack for people in sales, marketing, RevOps and customer success, with 50,000 to 60,000 members depending on which of its pages you read. Jared Robin started it in 2020. Around the Slack it runs a job board, a magazine and monthly Demo Days where GTM startups show their products live; the latest were on November 4 and 5, 2026. Director-level leaders at $2M+ revenue companies can apply to the paid Executive Community ($1,499 a year).
revgenius.com · Slack · free; Executive $1,499/yr · open · From Khrystyna's list
Exit Five
Dave Gerhardt, who ran marketing at Drift, started Exit Five for B2B marketers, most of them at SaaS companies. Members get the private community and app, 300+ training videos and 30+ local chapters, for $49 a month or $444 a year. The homepage says 7,000+ members. On November 3, 2026 it said it would retire Drive, its annual conference, and put more into in-person events. The free newsletter is a good way to try it first.
exitfive.com · Own platform and chapters · $444/yr · open
Partnership Leaders
Partnership Leaders is the community for people who run partnerships, alliances and channel programs, many at SaaS companies. Members get a 2,000+ member Slack, playbooks and local chapters; its Catalyst summits run in Amsterdam, Singapore and alongside Microsoft Ignite and AWS re:Invent this autumn. The annual State of Partnership Leaders report comes out on December 3, 2026. Plans start at $50 a month billed yearly; the site now leads with its advisory work.
partnershipleaders.com · Slack, chapters and Catalyst events · from $50/mo · application · From Khrystyna's list
Superpath
Superpath was known for a big free Slack of content marketers. That's gone: the community is now Superpath Pro, a paid Slack of about 300 members at $50 a month or $500 a year, run by CEO Alex Hilleary. The free parts remain: the job board and the yearly content marketing salary report, which put the average at $111,891 in 2025.
superpath.co · Slack and meetups · $500/yr · paid · From Khrystyna's list
Events and wider networks
SaaStr
SaaStr, Jason Lemkin's company, is less a chat group than the meeting place of B2B SaaS: daily posts, free Wednesday workshops, and the SaaStr AI Annual conference, which expects 10,000+ people in San Mateo on May 11–12, 2027. It now brands itself SaaStr AI. If you sell to SaaS founders or raise money from SaaS investors, its events are where you meet them.
saastr.com · Conferences, workshops and content · content free; tickets paid · open
Women of SaaS
Women of SaaS, founded in Berlin by Julia Goelles, connects women working in SaaS through monthly events in 13 cities, from Berlin and London to New York and San Francisco, plus an online group. It says it has 8,000+ members, and membership is free. Not to be confused with PartnerStack's Women in SaaS reports, which aren't a community you can join.
womenofsaas.com · City hubs and online · free · open
Led by Community
If you build a community around your SaaS product, Led by Community is for you. Founder Francisco Opazo runs a free member platform with job posts and articles, local chapters and coworking days (Lisbon, London and Mumbai this month), and a Premium tier with a private Slack of 600+ community builders. The Premium price isn't public.
ledby.community · Platform, Slack and chapters · free; Premium paid · open · From Khrystyna's list
Which SaaS community should you join?
Building alone or bootstrapped: Indie Hackers and r/SaaS (free), then MicroConf Connect or Ramen Club.
Running a SaaS company with $1M+ in revenue: SaasRise, or Hampton from $3M.
Sales, RevOps and customer success: RevGenius (free), then Pavilion.
B2B marketing: Exit Five; Superpath for content marketers.
Partnerships and channel: Partnership Leaders.
Community managers: Led by Community. Women in SaaS: Women of SaaS.
SaaS communities that closed or changed
You'll still find these on other lists of SaaS communities:
Makerpad: the no-code community Zapier bought in 2021. Its domain was sold in 2026 and now hosts an unrelated product.
Superpath's free Slack: replaced by the paid Superpath Pro (above).
SaaS Alliance: the domain most lists link to is parked and for sale; the new site is a paid content membership with no post since February 2025.
No Code Founders: started as a Slack group in 2019, now a newsletter and tools directory with no Slack link.
Newsletter Crew: once a paid community for newsletter writers, now a dormant blog.
NoCode.ai: the domain now redirects to a Chinese app builder.
Quiet, with no sign of activity in the last 90 days but no notice that they closed: ALL IN (a free Slack for in-house SaaS marketers), NoCodeOps (Zapier's Discord for operations people), Micro SaaS HQ's forum, SaaS Growth Hacks on Facebook, Growmance and ProductLed's PLG Slack. They may still have members talking; we couldn't confirm it.
FAQ
What is the best SaaS community?
For founders, Indie Hackers: free, active and full of real revenue numbers. For go-to-market leaders, Pavilion, if you can pay $1,375 a year; RevGenius if you can't.
What is the biggest SaaS community?
r/SaaS on Reddit, with about 843,000 members in November 2026. The biggest Slack is RevGenius, with 50,000+.
Are there free SaaS communities?
Yes: Indie Hackers, r/SaaS, RevGenius's Slack, Women of SaaS and Led by Community's basic tier are free. Paid ones priced in dollars cost $444 to $2,364 a year for the entry plan; Ramen Club is £260.
What are the best Slack communities for SaaS?
RevGenius (free, 50,000+ members), Partnership Leaders, MicroConf Connect, Ramen Club, Superpath Pro and Pavilion all run on Slack.
Is Pavilion worth it?
For a sales, marketing or RevOps leader whose company pays, usually: the peer Slack and the courses are the draw. Associate membership is $1,375 a year in North America; managers just starting out may get more from RevGenius's free Slack first.
Which SaaS communities are for bootstrapped founders?
MicroConf Connect only admits bootstrapped or mostly bootstrapped founders. Ramen Club is for founders before profitability, and Indie Hackers is mostly bootstrappers. See our bootstrapped SaaS companies for what the successful ones did.
How this list was built
Khrystyna keeps a reading list in Airtable, and 33 links in it are filed as communities, saved between 2022 and 2024. We added the 12 communities that other lists of SaaS communities cite most. On November 10, 2026, we checked all 45: whether members actually talk to each other, whether there's been activity (events, posts, a working join page) in the last 90 days, and what each costs, who runs it and how many members it states on its own pages.
The 14 active communities that serve people who build or sell SaaS made the list: 6 from Khrystyna's list and 8 from the wider set. Member counts are as each community states them and none is audited; r/SaaS's comes from trackers that mirror Reddit's figure. Prices are the entry plan, in US dollars unless stated.
About this list
Curated by Khrystyna Oleksiienko at LeadWave, which maintains a hand-researched database of SaaS and AI companies. She also picked our top SaaS newsletters.
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