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Grab Your Desk · March 7th
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SFO · San Francisco · Est. 2024

Ship Alongside
People Who
Get It.

A shared workspace where SaaS founders debug, ship, and build alongside people who understand the loneliness of going it alone.

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💻 First commit to production in 11 days·🚀 Launched on ProductHunt — #3 Product of the Day·🤝 Found a co-founder at the Tuesday standup·💰 First $500 MRR at the whiteboard·📦 Shipped v1.0 after 4 months solo·🎯 YC interview — prepped here·🔥 $0 to $2k MRR in 6 weeks·⚡ Closed first enterprise contract in the hallway·💻 First commit to production in 11 days·🚀 Launched on ProductHunt — #3 Product of the Day·🤝 Found a co-founder at the Tuesday standup·💰 First $500 MRR at the whiteboard·📦 Shipped v1.0 after 4 months solo·🎯 YC interview — prepped here·🔥 $0 to $2k MRR in 6 weeks·⚡ Closed first enterprise contract in the hallway·
Act I

The apartment. The cursor.
The silence.

You've been building in your apartment for nine months.

The Slack channel is quiet. The cursor blinks.

73%

of solo founders report feeling isolated while building

"

"I shipped a feature last Tuesday. Nobody cared. I closed the laptop and ordered pizza."

Anonymous, r/SaaS

Founder working alone at a desk late at night with only monitor glow illuminating the room
11:47 PM. Another build night.

The loneliness isn't a bug. It's a feature of building alone — and it doesn't have to be.

> git commit -m "fix: the thing again"
> git push origin main
[master 3a8f2c1] fix: the thing again
# No reviewers. No comments. Just you.
Act II

The crossing.
The room changes everything.

Then you walk through the door.

Fourteen people look up. One of them is debugging the exact same Stripe webhook issue.

Photo of Marcus Webb — Building Pulsepoint — B2B analytics
Marcus WebbRevenue

Building Pulsepoint — B2B analytics

Went from 0 → $1.8k MRR in 8 weeks. Found his first 3 customers in this room.

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#help-me-ship
PT
Priya T.2:14 PM

anyone dealt with Vercel cold start issues on edge functions?

DK
Daniel K.2:15 PM

yes — move to Node runtime. DM me

PT
Priya T.2:16 PM

🙏🙏 you just saved my demo

Commits since joining Forge
Jamie Okafor
Before ForgeAfter joining
Photo of Aisha Patel — Building Flowmesh — no-code API builder
Aisha PatelBuilding

Building Flowmesh — no-code API builder

"I shipped more in my first two weeks at Forge than in the previous four months."

11 days

Average time from joining to first deploy

among Forge members in 2025

Communal workspace with multiple founders working at standing desks with monitors showing code and dashboards

The Tuesday morning standup. No managers. Just builders.

Photo of Tom Eriksson — Building Listify — SEO content automation
Tom ErikssonLive

Building Listify — SEO content automation

Pair-programmed his entire auth system at the long table. Launched 3 days later.

MRR Board — Feb 2026
Marcus W.$1,800
Aisha P.$420
Lena C.$3,200
Tom E.$890

Updated every Tuesday standup

Act III

The allies.
Nobody builds alone here.

"

"I came in on a Thursday looking for a quiet desk. By Friday I had a co-founder, a product name, and a Stripe account. Forge didn't give me those things — the people in the room did."

Photo of Ravi Nair
Ravi Nair
Co-founder & CTO · Docflow AI
Real story

The failed launch that didn't break us.

Lena shipped v1 to zero signups. By noon, five people at the table had pulled their chairs over. By 4pm, they'd rewritten the onboarding together.

✓ v2 launched 3 weeks later. 47 signups on day one.

— Lena Chukwu

""The hallway at Forge is where I got my first enterprise lead. I was explaining my product to someone getting coffee.""

Sam Okonkwo
Founder, Trackwise
Two founders high-fiving after a successful product launch at their co-working space

Deploy day. Always celebrated.

8

Co-founder matches

from Forge introductions in 2025

→ Marcus + Priya
→ Tom + Aiko
→ Dev + Lena
→ Sam + Rohan

""Every time I think about quitting, I come to Forge. Being around people who are further along than me makes everything feel possible.""

Zara Mitchell
Solo founder, Kindleflow
Whiteboard covered in sticky notes, metrics and product roadmap diagrams in a co-working space

The whiteboard that launched three products.

Survived a failed launch with peer support

  • ✓Emergency retrospective at the long table
  • ✓Five members contributed user research
  • ✓Pivoted positioning in 48 hours
  • ✓Re-launched to 200+ waitlist

— James Okafor, Segmently

The Climax

The output wall.
Community compounds.

Every card below is a real thing built, shipped, or celebrated in this room.

What gets built here stays here.

Every badge, every deploy, every "we're live" Slack message.

Product Hunt
#2

Docflow AI

AI-powered document workflows

▲ 847 upvotesJan 2026

Ravi Nair

Dashboard screenshot showing analytics metrics and revenue graphs for a SaaS product
Pulsepoint Analytics$1,800 MRR

Marcus Webb

YC
Y Combinator

"We'd like to invite you to interview for the YC W26 batch."

Flowmesh
Aisha Patel · October 2025
Product Hunt
#1

Segmently

Behavioral segmentation for indie SaaS

▲ 1,204 upvotesNov 2025

James Okafor

$10k MRR

Trackwise

Month 5 at Forge

Sam Okonkwo

Laptop showing a SaaS product interface with user onboarding flow and metrics
Kindleflow$2.1k MRR

Zara Mitchell

S
Stripe Revenue
$4,280

February 2026

✓ First month over $4k

Tom Eriksson · Listify

Product Hunt
#3

Kindleflow

AI writing workflows for solo creators

▲ 612 upvotesDec 2025

Zara Mitchell

47

products shipped

by Forge members in 2025

SaaS
28
Dev tools
11
No-code
8
$50k ARR

Docflow AI

Month 7 at Forge

Ravi Nair

Developer tools dashboard with code editor and deployment pipeline visualization
Flowmesh v2.0$890 MRR

Aisha Patel

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9:00 AMDoors open. Coffee. Claim your desk.
10:30 AMOptional: 5-min build updates (no pressure)
12:30 PMLunch together. The best conversations happen here.
3:00 PMOpen office hours with resident founders
5:30 PM"What shipped today?" — end of day standup
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"I came to First Friday not sure if I'd like the space. I left with a co-founder and a name for the product."

— Priya Tharakan, Segmently