Email dev community
I have been an email dev for a short while and am thinking about creating an Email Dev community to share the knowledge and best practices around building emails.
Believe it or not I could not find any independent online communities, apart from Litmus, which is essentially just a forum that is designed to drive traffic to their product pages.
I just wanted to get your thoughts on the below components of the community I want to create:
- Stories - submit and vote on user generated articles/stories and news with pre-defined topics
- Discussion - submit your questions, question filtering/categories, other users answer them and earn points, best answer selection, leaderboard
- Collections - a place where users can create and share snippets of code, hacks and fixes, private and public visibility.
- Site wide search, commenting system
Future add-ons:
- Job board - post/apply for email dev jobs
- Video series - email dev screencasts, frameworks overviews, etc
- Podcasts, guest video series
I am keen to her your thoughts and also if anyone has a resource to share about building online communities, it'd be greatly appreciated.
Cheers.
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Check out....https://email.geeks.chat/. I recall it being a pretty active community of email developers.
Do some more digging I guess. Theres always something to be solved and questions to be answered.
I would say, people are probably already too ingrained in Litmus and the Email geeks Slack channel.
Also, I don't find Litmus to be driving people to their product pages at all either. I'm on there everyday, helping people debug their issues and Litmus as a company or tool provider comes up very rarely as a solution to an issue. There may be links to blog posts but I'm quite happy to mention Email on Acid on there.
Litmus aren't ensuring its focused on them at all.
MJML has an email community. The platform is also great. It is not as "complete" as you are looking to get into but I would recommend joining their slack.
https://mjml.io/
I think a great way to get started could be the same way indie hackers got started. By interviewing people about their stories in email dev and by then sharing these interviews. Ref (interview on youtube with courtland allen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vWR-0PderA)
Best!