If you're reading this, you're one of our founders. This space is for you, and it's free. Here's why it exists.

Tech is no longer the moat. In the age of AI, anyone can ship a product in weeks. What can't be copied overnight is a group of people who care about what you're building. The startups that win the next decade won't just have the best tech — they'll have the strongest communities.

But building a community is harder than it should be. The leading platforms start at $90 a month — real money when you're pre-revenue. Discord is free, but setting it up properly takes time and expertise most early teams don't have. And on all of these platforms, there's a bigger problem: your members, your conversations, your data — they live on someone else's servers, under someone else's terms.

So we're fixing that for our portfolio. This network gives every one of our startups a place to build their community from day one:

• Free. No monthly fee, ever (until you hit 10k users). Spend your runway on your product.
• No setup headaches. Your space is ready out of the box — invite your users and go.
• You own your data. Your members and conversations are yours. If you ever want to leave, you take everything with you. Its all just in a postgress database.

What we ask in return: nothing. We invest in you because we believe community is becoming the real differentiator. Helping you build one early is simply us putting our money where our thesis is.

Start today. Set up your space, invite your first ten users, and post something. Communities aren't launched — they're started small and grown with consistency. We'll be in here with you.

— Jack & the IOP Capital team