Sidebar

Peer-driven professional development for top senior leaders.

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Sidebar is peer-driven professional development for a highly-vetted group of founders and leaders. We catalyze success by matching members in small groups where they enhance each other's superpowers. Powered by purpose-built technology and expert facilitation.
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Lexy Franklin
Maker
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Hello Product Hunt! 👋 I’m Lexy Franklin, Founder & CEO at Sidebar. I founded Sidebar with the goal of connecting extraordinary people and catalyzing their success through the power of small peer groups. Why peer groups? Humans have always relied on their closest relationships and their shared experiences to guide decision-making and growth. However, leaders today often find themselves on a lonely journey of navigating professional pitfalls without a sounding board. At Sidebar, we believe everyone should have a high-quality, private, and supportive peer group around them at every stage of their professional journey. We’ve developed an advanced matching engine to group peers based on similarities in career stage and goals, while emphasizing diversity of backgrounds, abilities, and perspectives. Using this technology, we expertly curate a small group of 8 people - your Personal Board of Directors. By understanding your goals, superpowers, and skill gaps, Sidebar matches you with the right people to push you forward. The result is a dynamic environment designed to unleash each member’s greatest work. We’re really excited to add this new tool to the toolbox of the most-driven professionals, and provide the Product Hunt community pre-launch access to a high-quality, private network of people to brainstorm, learn, and be accountable with. Take one step closer to growing into the leader you want to become. Apply here 👉https://www.sidebar.com With love Team Sidebar 💜 Special thanks to @imsabakarim for hunting us :)
Saba Karim
Aurascope
Hunter
@lexy_franklin I've said it before and I'll say it again... I wouldn't be where I am today if it wasn't for the people I had in my life supporting me from day one. That's why I'm super proud to hunt Sidebar! Peer-development is a game-changer for personal and professional growth. It helps people realize they're not alone. Some people may have seen my tweet about needing a startup that's building an advisory board but for friends. So I'm glad to see you and the team rise to the challenge. Readers, if you haven't had the privilege to be part of a supportive community, or even access to top leaders, then I'm confident you're going to love Sidebar. Check it out!
Lin Haowen
Congrats on the launch @lexy_franklin! Heard a lot of great things about it from friends, will def sign up! What is the story behind Sidebar?
Gabriel Nori
🔌 Plugged in
Congratulations on your recent launch on Product Hunt, Sidebar team! I must say, I am absolutely thrilled to discover a platform that prioritizes the power of small peer groups in developing a professional network. 😍 Your matching engine sounds impressive, and I can only imagine the quality of connections that can be sparked within a Personal Board of Directors. 🤝 I am curious to know more about the potential use cases for a Sidebar membership. Could you share some real-life scenarios where a peer group has made a significant impact on a member's professional growth? 🤔 Overall, I am excited to see how Sidebar empowers individuals to become better leaders and advance their careers through curated networks. Keep up the fantastic work 🎉🙌🌟
Asher King
Maker
@gabriel_nori, thank you for the support and the great question! Sidebar is uniquely built to support your entire professional journey, not any singular challenge. Use cases are incredibly diverse; members have leveraged their group to navigate successful fundraising rounds, make the jump into the C-Suite, get buy-in on big decisions, or better integrate high performing personal and professional lives—often all in the span of a single facilitated session. Privacy is a top value at Sidebar, so we refrain from sharing member’s professional triumphs and challenges without explicit consent—but there is a whole range of testimonials live on our website where members show how they lean on their Sidebar group when it matters most: https://www.sidebar.com/#home-te...
Zsolt Kacso
Userdrive
Congrats on the launch Lexy! Once I apply, what happens next?
Lexy Franklin
Maker
Thank you so much for your support, @kaolti! Once we receive your application, our membership team assesses if you align with our community, keeping in mind our ethos and the application criteria. If we see a potential fit, we'll invite you for an interview. This is a crucial step in understanding more about your career, and professional goals, and helps you learn more about Sidebar. We look for outsized impact and electric qualities that simply don’t show up on paper! ⚡️
Sofe Ring
This is incredible, how exciting! What's included in my membership?
Lexy Franklin
Maker
Thank you so much @sofe_ring! Your Sidebar membership includes our best-in-class matching technology as well as access to our three key pillars: 1. Core Group Sessions: Bi-weekly 90-minute virtual sessions with a curated group of 8 peers - your Personal Board of Directors, guided by unparalleled programming and professional facilitation to propel you to achieve your most audacious goals, better and faster. 2. Continuous Feedback System: Our end-to-end platform streamlines the process of gathering insights across the ecosystem, offering real-time messaging access to the entire community and targeted resources for your short and long-term objectives. 3. Diverse Community of Experts: Each member gains immediate access to an elite growth-focused community. Each of our highly vetted members brings unique professional strengths to the table, providing real-time access to industry-leading insights. With access to our live interview series with subject matter experts, an extensive library of past events, a bi-weekly newsletter filled with the latest insights and opportunities, and white-glove support from the Sidebar team, you'll have everything you need to unleash your full potential.
Matthew Young
This sounds awesome, can I join Sidebar even if I live outside of the United States?
Lexy Franklin
Maker
@matthew_young2 Absolutely! We are a global community, with members from all over the world. As long as you're comfortable communicating in English, you are welcome to apply. We are also working towards making Sidebar available in more languages in the future.
greg carron
This looks amazing, great work Lexy! Is the focus more on tech founders or does the platform apply to a wide variety of industries?
Lexy Franklin
Maker
Greg! Thank you so much for the question! Sidebar’s vision is everyone’s potential unleashed. We believe every leader deserves a supportive and impactful network at every stage of their career - a network that brings out their best work, sparks innovative thought, and catalyzes extraordinary success. Our members are elite professionals from across industries. Sidebar's matching engine curates peer groups based on the peers who will add the most value to your professional journey. By understanding your goals, superpowers, and skill gaps, Sidebar matches you with the right people to push you forward, no matter what industry you are in.
Meredith Black
Congrats on the launch Lexy! Love what you are doing. I'm curious, what happens in between group meetings?
Asher King
Maker
Thank you for the support, @msmeredithblack! That's a great question. Sidebar is always on. Between sessions, you stay connected with your group members via the Sidebar app. You can share insights, ask questions, and even schedule 1:1 sessions with a group member or any member or the broader community to dive into a challenge or topic in more detail.
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