Founder Chats – Connecting Hacker News Founder Community

In plain words

Founder Chats is a chat group platform that connects startup founders from the Hacker News community to collaborate and network. Groups are organized by location, industry sector, and business priorities like product building, growth, and fundraising. The platform includes over 1,000 startups and 80+ venture investors who use it to make introductions, schedule pitch practice sessions, and facilitate early-stage funding conversations.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

From the sources

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hi HN community! A huge number of startup founders are reading Hacker News, but it's still very hard to make new personal connections here and help each other with product building, growth, or fundraising. As an experiment to make HN founder community more connected, I've created a system of chat groups, organized by…

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