Networked Support

Welcome everyone with respect. Encourage each other. Share care and curiosity.

2. Share real insight and creative lessons 

Your experience helps others grow. Share tools, stories, and ideas that lift the creative economy.

Ask questions, offer guidance, and stay on track. Help the group learn without clutter.

4. Protect each other’s privacy and work 

Do not share exclusive content, cohort materials, or personal details outside this space.

5. Celebrate diverse voices and backgrounds 

This community thrives on different perspectives. Stay open, inclusive, and welcoming.

Keep feedback direct and kind. Focus on what supports progress.

Share your work when it adds value. Keep the space clean of sales pushes or off topic posts.

Ask questions, request support, or share challenges. We grow stronger together.

Media Production

What best describes your creative work? (Select all that apply)

Creative work is a side practice, not my profession

What brought you to Pretty Cool Data? (select all that apply)

What topics interest you most? (Select all that apply)

How do you prefer to learn and engage? (select all that apply)

Balancing creative work with everything else

What would make this community valuable to you? (Select all that apply)

Meeting people in similar creative fields

Feed

We're glad you're here. Pretty Cool Data is a research community built by Could Be Pretty Cool

 for indie creators and small arts businesses ready to stop guessing and start growing. This is your space to test ideas, map your career trajectory, and make smarter decisions alongside people who get it.

To get the most out of your new home, start with three simple steps:

Introduce yourself and share what you're working on. It helps the community support you and opens the door to real collaboration.

Explore the resources here. You'll find workshops, research tools, grant guidance, job opportunities, and insights designed for indie creators.

Jump into a conversation. Ask a question, share what's working, or swap ideas with peers who care about creative work as much as you do.

This is a space where you're a collaborator, not just a data point. We can't wait to see what you build. 

(Pretty Cool Creator Collective Access not included)

Pretty Cool Data Community is a peer research and feedback space for creators who want evidence behind their next move.

Most creative decisions get made alone. You pick a format, a price, a topic, a launch date, and you find out whether it worked after it's too late to change. The Community exists to move that feedback earlier, when it's still cheap to act on.

Members bring a real question and put it in front of people doing the same work at the same time. Alongside that, you get on-demand curriculum covering research methods built for creative practice, plus rotating live workshops with working experts who have solved the problem you're currently in.

This is not a course you finish and a not a Slack that goes quiet. It runs on the rhythm of actual creative work: test something, hear back, adjust, test again. 

Pretty Cool Creator Community Member

Introduce Yourself

Announcements

Pitch Your Own Project

On-Demand Courses

Events Feed

Industry Research

Collaboration Requests

Private Community Podcast

Could Be Pretty Cool Podcast

Sounds Pretty Cool Directory

FAQs and Getting Started

Contact the Team

The Pretty Cool Creator Collective is a cohort program that takes you from an idea to a podcast that's actually live.

You don't need experience, gear, an audience, or a media background, you just need something you want to talk about and the willingness to learn how it gets made.

Live workshops with working producers, held virtually. You show up, you learn the thing, you ask your questions in real time.

On-demand courses you can move through whenever your schedule allows. If you miss a live session or want to go back over something, it's here.

Assignments between sessions that build on each other. By the end you're not holding notes, you're holding a show.

Your cohort isa group of people starting at the same place you are. This is the part people underestimate, having others in it with you is usually what determines whether the show gets finished.

A launch party when your episodes go live, so you're not releasing into silence!