If you are building a community, what's one lesson you learned the hard way?

The time commitment behind consistently creating content that is valuable to your community so that they are engaged and keep coming back to you.

This is what i recently wrote in my blog at @qinapsworkbooks about community and growth tools for early stage start-uppers! https://qinaps.com/win-with-thes... Platform-based communities Producthunt – We received our beta testers and first 100 users from Product Hunt and a huge boost to our incoming traffic. It’s the best platform for entrepreneurs to learn about new products and apps. Discuss directly with the founders, up-vote upcoming products, connect and communicate with the extremely helpful community, grow your followers and learn faster collectively. IndieHackers – a must-use and must-know site for hacking your growth. It provides great tips and tricks summarised to your inbox on a weekly basis right from the horse’s mouth. Twitter: I don’t think I need to say anything about this wildly successful platform. However, a few tips I learned along the way might be useful. Try to be consistent with your posts. As the target audience is 18-33 years old, keeping us interested is going to be a challenge! there are plenty of them freely available with reduced functionalities of course. Follow, share content coming from influencers in your niche. And try to value add with every tweet and re-tweet. Embed images, polls, and videos for best results. Try scheduler apps as consistency is the key!

Be consistent in sharing value 🤘

Building a community for a solution starts with a problem from stepping one step ahead from the last step. Implementation is the beginning of problems where we meet new challenges while working on a project or plan. Building a community from the idea stage to reality needs much patience, research, and alot of things to implement every day in life and into your product or services. It's all about connecting with the last click of life!

Wow, thanks for asking this man @5harath This forum turned out super helpful for me as I am about to launch my own social learning app called Damnnnn (https://damnnnn.com). The core of the relies on community building & network effect. Every insight here seems super valuable and gave me a perspective to optimize the platform to adapt to how we build a community. Absolutely the most valuable forum I had read today. Thanks, everyone out here.

Hey @tiagorbf you've probably got some good insights for this!

Nothing new. Yet worth repeating: spamming is not appreaciated. Anywhere. Put in the effort to understand your audience and approach them with humility. After all, we don't like when we spammed. Safe to say they won't like being spammed by you either.

Do community discovery first. And answer the question: "do I want to lead this community?".

I think building a community is the definition of: Do things that don't scale! You have to put energy in every member to onboard them and design spaces for them to engage. Only in later stages, you can hope that the community flywheel will do its job and members will interact with each other.

DON'T DO TRIAL PERIODS! In the WBE Space I tried doing trial periods but it was creepy... People would just pop up and ghost us. Not cool...