I'm Dru Riley, I've spent 4,000+ hours researching business models and marketing strategies. AMA 👇

@kaisen2350 Network effects are hard to beat. So marketplaces and social networks. This would withstand the past 2 years constraint and the next two years constraint. Even if we're looking at NFT projects in 3 years. They still employ network effects. The question becomes more interesting if we ask the same question for business models that are easy to bootstrap.

@sefasarikaya Meditation. See my reply to @stewartfortier If you want a growth-specific task, it was building in public on Twitter.

@dru_riley I appreciate your answer. I will definitely try to do uncomfortable things every day.

@dynamo It will vary a lot depending on the product and who you're serving. Need more information before I can share strategies/tactics.

@aaronoleary We are extremely thoughtful about the number of channels we have and "design" of the community. @stewartfortier was a big inspiration here. Since rituals have the same "rules" each time. It makes things easier. We've done standups for 600+ days. The system has been honed.

@sergeipetrov Everything I've learned about Product Hunt launches went into this post: https://www.indiehackers.com/pro... One thing that wasn't included: If you're aiming for Product of the Month, launch earlier in the month. It's obvious but easy to miss.

@dru_riley Thank you for your response and for what you are doing. A really interesting format and your interest in interacting with the community is obvious. Keep it up!

@debi_barik When I was more active on social media, I paid a lot of attention to retweets. I spend more time thinking about email these days. And click rate means a lot.

@dru_riley Thank you for the tips.

@pranav_sathiadevan As you said, it seems like success would depend on community managers knowing that they have this problem. My bet is that most successful people don't put their head in the sand when it comes to these things. I recently heard an interview with Pieter Levels where he talked about the need to hire a moderator for the NomadList community. Some folks are aware of this problem. The hard question is: How do you reach them at this stage of the buying cycle? One idea is to build the relationship earlier and stay top of mind until the community grows to a hard-to-manage size. This depends on building a lead magnet and providing continuing value.

@ayena_umar Thanks for joining Ayena. Leverage (no-code, social media, etc) seems like a big reason why one-person businesses are more common than ever. So leverage is the first thing that comes to mind.

@dru_riley thanks!

@almaty 👊

@ayman_alrifai1 You can look for media businesses. "The business of content" podcast features founders of these businesses.