Charlie Ward

Yeah, it was October 2019.

So it's always been on the side of having a full-time job.

I recently went part-time.

But yeah, it's been about one and a half years and we've kind of picked up the pace in the last six months.

Yeah, I mean, it's one of those things where people come for the events and accountability, but they stay for the community.

The format means you meet people over video a lot, and it's a great way to kind of build connections.

So yeah, there's a lot of fun parts of Weekend Club as well, like an active memes channel, that kind of thing.

But as you said, yeah, a big part of it is celebrating wins.

You know, that's a huge part of it as well.

And it can sometimes it's big things like, you know, going full time and your project.

But sometimes it's little things like, oh, I just got it.

I got a customer today or something like that.

And that's cool.

To be honest, it evolved quite naturally because I was running meetups in London for like a year and a half or so before I started this.

And so I was quite naturally kind of introducing people to each other, kind of getting to know people.

And it was indie hackers as people I was personally interested in kind of getting to know.

And it just kind of evolved very naturally.

People said, oh, we'd love to we love like going for like drinks together, but we'd love to hack on our projects in the same room.

And we just got it going.

um i've kind of about a year no maybe about three months in i realized i was in like the community world i started like meeting people who were community builders and i started realizing okay i need to kind of really think of this so that's just coming down to like knowing really defining what your community is for who it's for and what you're basically getting people together for and once you have those things down there's a really good book on this actually get together which like talks about that basic framework