Learning Loop

A peer-to-peer residency for the elite tech founders.

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A peer-to-peer residency for the elite tech founders.

385 followers

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Learning Loop is a peer-to-peer online residency for the world's best tech founders. We have a private community, match founders with other founders in small groups, host peer-to-peer check-in calls, and organize AMAs and in-person events.

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Hey folks, if you are a founder looking to find peers who are in the same boat or a few steps ahead of you, I have something for you today. Introducing Learning Loop - a tight-knit private community of founders who look for each other whether you are celebrating highs or facing lows. The makers of the Learning Loop are here to answer any questions and are open to taking any feedback.

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2yr ago

npm i -g hotcell

Maker

@5harath Thanks a lot Sharath, we really appreciate it. And yes we're here to share and learn

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2yr ago

Learning Loop

Maker

@5harath Cheers Sharath! Being founders is a super tough and at times lonely journey, but together with Learning Loop peers, we're all gonna make it (co-opting that from web3 🤣)!

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2yr ago

Learning Loop

Maker

@meryem_ghazi Appreciate the kind words. Learning Loop was a team & community effort and we’re learning to be better every day 😊!

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2yr ago

@5harath good luck with the product guys!

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2yr ago

Sina and Peter are people people and you'll be well taken care of. Odd day care though, no milk only beer?

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2yr ago

npm i -g hotcell

Maker

@kevin_yee_bd HAHAH modern problems require modern solutions

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2yr ago

Interesting platform where first-time or even second-time founders can meet, brainstorm or making ideas happen. One question, is it possible to add a free-tier for those who want a taste of what it's like to be in there with limited options like viewing old information?

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2yr ago

npm i -g hotcell

Maker

@shahza1bmushtaq that’s an interesting idea. mind telling me more about how that’d help you? we can prototype something if helpful

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2yr ago

@sinamerajii Quick sign-up process for founders, indie hackers or the curious. Let them see the benefits. Those questions you are asking before signing up, should be asked after the joining stage and all serious joiners will answer it sooner than later.

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2yr ago

npm i -g hotcell

Maker

@shahza1bmushtaq simplicity is a double edged sword. the easier it is to get in, the higher the churn usually. some of the friction in the sign up process is by design, to avoid us having a really large but dead/spammy community. That said, I do think it's a good idea for us to make it easier for people to see what the vibe is inside the community e.g. the type of convos and etc. thanks a lot for the feedback

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2yr ago

@sinamerajii in that sense, you guys really done a fantastic job because at first I saw it as hurdles but now it's security checkpoints to enter the club. I can't wait to see what's inside the community.

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2yr ago

Peek

I have been a member of Learning Loop for the past few months and it has been a fantastic experience. There are a few things that are just so special about Learning Loop compared to other founder communities that I am a part of: - Accountability to be active: ppl do share and engage on a regular basis, beyond just a Whatsapp text group. Those relationships and the value they bring compound over time - Vulnerability as a core value: most ppl are very open to sharing all parts of the founder journey - as more sharing leads to quicker iterative process of learning. No one is judging, everyone is there to help - Curated community: I can tell that Sina puts in a lot of time in evaluating each person who joins - everyone is very thoughtful, intentional and always learning

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2yr ago

Learning Loop

Maker

@sherry_jiang Thank you for sharing your experience as part of Learning Loop! It’s a privilege to have you as an integral part of our community 😊

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2yr ago

DiffSense

I love the spirit. But there is a big challenges with this. The expertise intersection is very narrow. Every founder has extremely unique and narrow fields of expertise, overlaps with other founders are rare, at the non-superficial level. You also have to match personality, stage, timezone, and lots of other factors. It might work if it was a freemium service, but I wouldn't know what you would charge for then. That's my thoughts on this. I really do love the spirit here tho!!!! Really!

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2yr ago

npm i -g hotcell

Maker

@sentry_co Thanks for sharing. I see where you're coming from. In reality, 80% of pre PMF journey is pure entrepreneurship, chaos, ambiguity, uncertainty and fears. Turns out that (given good design) creates a lot of intersection and conversations and belonging. We've priced it like the other experiences that founders pay for monthly in place like Singapore, London, SF, Miami, Berlin etc.

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2yr ago

DiffSense

@sinamerajii Yes, I agree, buttttt. Im in a massive incubator where most peps are pre-PMF and we have a slack with about 3-4k founders. My initial thinking was the same, turns out I get a lot more feedback here on PH talking to other makers. The slack is almost completely dead. Just some random LinkedIn repost spam, and a few emojis. Its crazy. Really hope you guys get the DNA of the community right. DM me if you need pointers. I at least know what doesn't work. However when I was in a similar setting in acowork space with 100s of founders. It was completely the opposite. Very vibrant, lots of cross pollination. But online it doesn't seem to work. Or it could be that you just have to get it right.

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2yr ago

npm i -g hotcell

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@sentry_co slack itself is the problem because its carrying capacity is barely 50. beyond 50 members, it becomes noisy. part of the reason we form small groups within slack is to manage/reduce the volume of information each person sees. 90% of our members are active weekly, and we have a 92% *weekly* write-to-read ratio since May 2023. definitely not a dead slack community. the bigger issue with incubator slacks is that they dump founders in them when the program ends. they have no economic incentives to design the community experience for scale, we do (we've gone as far as making our own software so that as the number of users goes up, the volume of info each users see remains a constant and low enough, but the quality of info goes up. optimising for person/content fit and person/person fit. slack and these apps have completely ignored knowledge graphs and social graphs and stuff that already solve some of these collaboration at scale issues). always happy to chat. will DM you

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2yr ago

DiffSense

@sinamerajii You should get these incubators as customers! If you figured this out.

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2yr ago

Hawksight

Highly recommend learning loop to founders who want to stress test their mental models, and learn from the mental models of other highly competent tech founders. The result is a higher probability of reaching PMF faster, and reaching 6 figure ARR with others who are striving to reach the same. You'll have an aha moment once you have your first meetup with your founder cohort, specially curated to your sector, stage of company, and the hardest problems that you're currently solving. Ultra bullish on Sina, Peter, and team :)

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2yr ago

npm i -g hotcell

Maker

@enzoampil made my day sirrr ❤️

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2yr ago

npm i -g hotcell

Maker

Hi everyone, this is Sina, co-founder of LearningLoop. I like to say LL (short for LearningLoop) is daycare for really smart and ambitious founders. (I personally kinda aspire to design every experience and interaction on LL the way some old Japanese bartender serves his customers at a small, opinionated bar in Tokyo). We're intentional, obsessive, introspective and talk to our members daily. We design to create psychological safety, understanding, a place where people build you up and give you the minimum viable ignorance/delusion/confidence that you need to do the thing you wanna do that you may sometimes think you cannot do. We design to maximise luck. We've applied our product and design experience to solving communities' noise problem and our members love it. I'd love for you to join us and see for yourself (don't forget to use the discount code). We're a small team of 3, and we have crazy stories. Our stories started LearningLoop, then our members stories shaped it up. Now we'd love to hear your story and co-create the LL story with you. If you have any questions or feedback/ideas, or if you just wanna chat and tell me your story, please reach out to me here or on twitter (I commit to taking as many calls as I possibly can every day without absolutely dying as an intensely introverted yet very sociable introvert. yes that's a human genre :D)

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