Good luck with the book! I also hope you'll share some thoughts on how great communities get built. It's an important lesson for community activists globally, as well as for the "startups for startups" everywhere. Thank you for your work and dedication!
@rossomakha Hello Masha. Yes. There will be a section dedicated to this. I've talked to a lot of people to determine the topics that should be discussed. One of the most consistent requests was about that very thing: People wanted to know the intimate details about the very early stages of successfully launched/scaled communities. So I'll be providing details about how some great community managers/founders found those first users and what they did to retain them and also maintain a healthy community as it grew.
@rossomakha@erictwillis I want to +1 the comment about community activists. How to organize online is a broadly applicable topic. Aggregating and organizing people for startup growth is one use, doing it for activism is another.
Awesome, really looking forward to reading this. If anyone is credible enough to write something like this its you. Just backed the project on Kickstarter and will be sure to share.
@everette Thanks for backing the project, Everette!
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Awesome Eric! Looking forward to read the book. Best of luck with the kickstarter campaign! I am sure its gonna turn out very valuable to folks in the start up space.
I love how you say that some of the products are build solely because Product Hunt exists. In the past I've been building a lot of side-projects but none of them was seen. After PH one of my projects started making money and one got acquired.
I'm really excited about the book and good luck.
@mightyalex I really loved seeing that type of comment consistently. It's a really powerful testament to Product Hunt in that people aren't only coming here to discover products or just to share what they would have already been working on. Product Hunt itself is inspiring people to create things solely because of the idea that people will see their work. That's inspiring and I think it illustrates that Product Hunt is more than even a startup or a community... it's a real movement.
@erictwillis has done an amazing job building the Maker Hunt community which I have been fortunate to be part of. By association with that group, I've seen how he has connected with a number of significant 'community driven' startups. I'm sure this book will have some really valuable content and I look forward to checking it out!
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