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Ask HN: Tell me about some good niche online communities you know?
Everyone knows about facebook, google+, twitter and other popular social networking sites/communities that are general purpose(for all audience). I wish to know which niche communities(like HN) you like the most and why?
Edit : I'm also especially interested in communities that are women oriented.
- hcho 15y agoIn the UK, there's http://mumsnet.com http://mumsnet.com Obviously it's a mother's online community.
- DanBC 15y agoMeatball wiki is crucial reading for people wanting to learn about online communities. (http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/ http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/)
- revorad 15y agoI'm not part of either of these, but http://ravelry.com http://ravelry.com is a famous knitting community. Another one which is really impressive is http://www.airliners.net http://www.airliners.net. The photos and in-depth reviews people post on that site are just mind blowing.
- szany 15y agoProgramming languages: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/
- gadders 15y agohttp://www.bobpitch.com http://www.bobpitch.com People who just enjoy chatting about various subjects all day long.
- wj 15y agoNot specifically for women but Elite Trader (http://www.elitetrader.com/ http://www.elitetrader.com/) is pretty niche. Food bloggers seem to have a lot of online (and offline) meetups.
- latch 15y agohttp://webhostingtalk.com http://webhostingtalk.com is a pretty huge forum for everything hosting (vps, cloud, dedicated, colo..) related. Used to participate pretty heavy. It's actually a really good hacker resource.
- Mankhool 15y agoCinema 5D http://www.cinema5d.com/index.php http://www.cinema5d.com/index.php Now including discussion about large sensor video cameras, but started very niche for those of us interested in shooting video on DSLRs.
- katiepatrick 15y agohttp://www.ign.com/ http://www.ign.com/ - not sure if it counts as 'community' - but is very popular and was sold for something around $600m I think.
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- katiepatrick 15y agoThere is also essentialbaby.com.au that is an Australian new mom site that was purchase by fairfax for around $4m
- EgeBamyasi 15y agorateyourmusic.com Every music nerds wet dream.
- callmeed 15y agohttp://www.digitalweddingforum.com http://www.digitalweddingforum.com is my favorite forum for professional wedding & portrait photographers. I'm a member and an advertiser. It's a pretty great resource if you want no-nonsense business/technical photography info. Membership is in the thousands and it's a paid forum, so it's profitable. I don't know the actual numbers, but portrait and wedding photography has become very popular with women in the past few years. There are a lot of women that participate (possibly a majority). There is also a women/mom photography forum called http://www.clickinmoms.com http://www.clickinmoms.com that is fairly popular, but I have no first-hand knowledge of it.
- lilkik 15y agohttp://www.justbreastimplants.com/forum/ http://www.justbreastimplants.com/forum/ is self-explicatory, fairly busy and has a female audience.
- joshontheweb 15y agosome obvious ones: * web developers - http://forrst.com http://forrst.com * web designers - http://dribbble.com http://dribbble.com
- episod 15y agohttp://Everything2.com http://Everything2.com is a great community of writers; kind of an alternate reality, perspective-based wikipedia with a mix of fact, fiction, essays, drivel, and close-nit culture of folks who regularly meet up together.
- dchuk 15y agoI setup http://www.saasaholics.com http://www.saasaholics.com for SaaS and Startup founders to help each other out