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.

I am really interested in someone explaining to me, how people can have 5000+ tweets just in a span of 10months to one year !! I know Automation works, but this is insane... My question though is does it really work posting soooo many tweets on Twitter? Is just all about reach? I feel PH is really about community building whereas Twitter is more about marketing. Both are incredibly hard and need a lot of planning.effort and consistency and some tactics along the way. Like i mostly re-tweet with a comment trying to add more value to the original tweet itself. In PH i try to ask questions, but well rarely get too many engagements :) So instead i try and participate in every discussion thread by Sharath !!

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...