Community partners

Community partners run private spaces where founders, builders, and indie engineers gather. Accelerator cohorts, incubator alumni networks, paid Discord servers, Circle communities, Hampton-style peer groups, and curated Slack workspaces all share the same problem: members ask the host for SaaS recommendations, the host links to a Notion doc, and the doc goes stale within a quarter.

The problem with Notion deal docs

Three failure modes show up over and over in community deal lists. Vendors change pricing without notice and the doc lies for months. Coupon codes expire and members lose trust in the entire list. Affiliate links break when vendors switch programs and revenue drops to zero without anyone noticing. The community host did not sign up to be a part-time deals editor, and the deals layer suffers.

What SaaSTweaks ships instead

The Community track replaces the Notion doc with a hosted deal hub at deals.community-name.com (or a path on the community's existing site). The hub is gated by the community's SSO or by a single-use access code. Members see public SaaS deals plus 10-30 private offers negotiated specifically for the community. SaaSTweaks editors maintain pricing accuracy, swap broken codes, and add new vendors monthly.

How private deals are negotiated

Once a community signs on, the partnerships team approaches the top 30 vendors most relevant to its members. Vendors that already have public SaaSTweaks deals are asked for a stacked discount (an extra 10-20% on top of the public offer, or extended trial periods). Vendors not currently on SaaSTweaks are pitched a community-exclusive offer in exchange for distribution. The full negotiation cycle takes 30-60 days for the initial 15 deals and continues monthly.

Commercial terms

The community pays nothing. SaaSTweaks earns affiliate commission on member purchases and shares 30% of net commission with the community quarterly. Communities with more than 1,000 paying members can negotiate a higher share. Some communities prefer to direct the share back to a member benefit fund (free credits, scholarship slots) and that is supported as a Stripe destination split.

Branding

Two branding modes are supported. Co-branded shows both logos and the URL stays on the community's subdomain. Fully white-labelled removes all SaaSTweaks branding and sets a custom email sender for member-facing notifications. Both modes use the community's color palette and typography.

What the community host sees

A monthly report (PDF and dashboard) shows redemptions per deal, dollar value of member savings, top categories by interest, and member-requested vendors that are not yet on the hub. The latter feeds the negotiation queue for the next quarter.

Who this fits

Hampton, On Deck, YC alumni cohorts, Indie Hackers Pro, House of Wonder, Trends.vc, Lenny's Slack, Founders Network, and similar paid communities are the typical fit. Free Discord servers under 500 members are usually too small for the negotiation overhead and are better routed to the public SaaSTweaks catalog with a sub-id link.

Next steps

Intake gathers community size, primary categories of interest, current SaaS partners, and SSO method. A partnerships manager replies within three business days with a vendor pitch list and a draft branding spec.