Last year I joined a paid professional community that ran on Slack — with payments processed through a separate tool, events organized through yet another, and member directories living in a Google Sheet. What struck me aside from the duck-tape, was how good the community itself was. People from wildly different backgrounds were showcasing their expertise just through everyday conversation, and you could see other members organically hiring them based on what they'd shared. Job leads and gigs flowed through the channels. Slack's structure made it easy to pair people up around shared interests. But every time the community owner tried to monetize an event, the experience cracked. Eventbrite link in a pin. Stripe receipts in a separate inbox. Half the members forgot to RSVP because it lived outside the app they were already in. I started looking around and realized this pattern was everywhere. Communities thriving on WhatsApp, Slack, Discord, Telegram — tools that were never designed to be paid professional homes. Owners losing 15–20% of their margin to the seams between tools. Members fragmenting their attention across five apps. And no native way for the trust people built through conversation to translate into actual transactions. That's the problem Tomeer solves. One mobile-first app where the chat, the long-form posts, the paid events, and a built-in marketplace where members hire each other all live together. Escrowed payments. Reputation that compounds across every community you join. The biggest shift in how I built it: I stopped thinking of the marketplace as a feature and started thinking of the community as the entry, and the marketplace as the depth. Members don't sign up to transact, they sign up for the conversation. But once they trust each other, the marketplace is the natural next step. That's the moat competitors can't copy by adding a feature. We're opening a founding partner cohort for the first 10-20 community owners willing to migrate now. 0% platform fees for 12 months, concierge migration, permanent founding-partner status. If you run a paid community on patched-together tools and recognize this story — DM me. Would love feedback from this community. What did I miss? What would you want to see in v2?

Tomeer - Communities and Marketplace

Slack + Circle + a marketplace where members hire each other

Slack + Circle + a marketplace where members hire each other