Create networking programs that run on autopilot. Run speed networking between peers or connect mentors with mentees - all in minutes for $29/month. Like Donut but with more thoughtful matching.
Hey friends,
I'm a community consultant turned indie hacker. I've been professionally building online communities since the last 4 years. One of the key things I've learnt about community building is that communities are built on connections.
That's why last year, when working for a client, I had the brilliant idea to create latent connections between my community's members by introducing them to each other for 1-on-1 chats based on common goals and backgrounds.
But I was unable to find a tool that we could use to automate this process. Everything I found was either too clunky, too feature-poor, or too wallet-emptying.
That's when I decided to do something about it and build something to scratch my own itch. That's the origin story of Curated Connections.
Today, I am proud that to launch it because it it offers everything that I found lacking when I was shopping for tools:
• An intuitive UI
• Simple but customisable matching algorithm
• A robust Slack integration
• A login-free experience for your members
• Unlimited users for an easy-to-justify price of $29/month
And this last bit was important for me because if you look at the competitors, all of them charge between 2x to 100x more for a limited number of users. Thus making them inaccessible for bootstrapped startups and indie hackers.
Curated Connections has been in a public beta for the last 6 months during which a handful of early customers have taken it for a spin and received great feedback from their communities. Who are these early customers?
• Entrepreneurs building paid membership communities
• Community Managers running communities for companies
• Conference Organisers connecting their conference attendees
That's why, I am confident that if you run a membership community it will help you create more value for your members too.
In terms of tech stack, it is:
• hosted on Render
• built using the latest Ruby on Rails stack including Hotwire, along with TailwindCSS
• written using a lot of help from ChatGPT
This is my first time building a SaaS product as an indie hacker. I built it to scratch my own itch and hope that it helps other community builders like me. Do check it out and give me your valuable feedback.
Curated Connections