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Have you built a community within your product?

A community feature is one of the most requested feature for my product currently, however, I'm unsure whether I want to build a community through chat channels like Slack or build it within the product. What are your thoughts and consideration here?

on June 18, 2020
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    Slack is definitely not right for everyone, but it's hard to advise without more info.

    What is your product? What do your users actually want to do/achieve?

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      +1 to this... what are the outcomes you’re looking to see or have your members experience? what are they asking for specifically?

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        Thanks for the response, the product is what we believe is the next iteration of entrepreneurial education. Think accelerators and incubators with a global audience. So therefore, community is one of the key pillars of of success. We see in some ways this is something we need to build because it's a core part of the company. However, there's a lot of friction in building the community within the product vs. slack.

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          ... but, you literally didn't answer my question... lol.

          i love the passion!

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            Haha sorry! We want people to have the same quality experience of building companies as they would at a reputable accelerator or incubator, but not physically.

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              ... so, "quality experience"... okay.