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How to Build Your Community
By
Josh
October 10, 2017
How to Build Your Community
Discuss this article or ask me any questions you may have.
Great article, I am on the process of creating a local community of people looking to break into tech on my city (like me).
I was thinking about going easy with a wordpress or learn react+meteor and build a custom website. I choosed 2nd.
I would like to see more articles around this topic.
Thanks for taking the time to share this.
Thanks for reading! I think it's a good approach. I used my site to learn more about certain aspects of Node.js. A blog/website can be a fairly simple project but flexible and complex enough to still stay interesting.
I enjoyed the post. Very informative. The advice is straight-forward, but something I've certainly overlooked at times. Kudos for building a big community. I've always shied away from ideas that rely on a community, but perhaps it's time I got over that fear :)
Looking for AI and technical (hardware) experts interested in "Carparking Multiplayer Pro" development!
Awesome article!! It seems written for me :D I'm working on a project with some similarities to BwS but in a different topic.
Would you mind to help me with some small questions about how to interview via email?
Thanks for sharing this article with us :)
yeah sure :) you should ask your questions here though so everyone can learn. I also signed a non-compete so can't go into any specifics.
Cool, I agree so more people can learn from this :)
In your article you said: "...with my first interviews I thought I would have a higher response rate by sending the full interview questions out to potential interviewees. I quickly realised very few would actually respond...".
I guess that to get replies at the beginning of the project is the most complicated as people don't have previous examples to follow/copy.
You'd be surprised how receptive people can be if you're polite and up front. People love to tell their story and small business especially like any kind of press, but I think a big part of the reason I could get interviews was that the person I was interviewing was also the ideal audience (much like IH), so they had a shared interest in contributing to that community.
I think Courtland differs in his approach (based on the YC interview), but I prefered to email people the entire interview and if necessary send a follow up email. If I was still going I would probably go a mix of both. Get a few of the template questions and then a couple of personalized follow up ones.
It sounds like a good approach. Thanks and good luck with your current project :)