No code tool for building a community/forum

@Hackme29 would you consider Lark and Discord? They've been highly recommended by a lot of communities recently. Otherwise, you can also find many community-centric tools on Virtual Mojito

For communities, it can be as simple as a Telegram chat group, to a Slack/Discord group, or a Facebook group, to a forum built on Wordpress, or a managed hosting for Discourse instance.

Depends on the kind of conversations you're thinking about - more transient/chatty or more archival/content heavy.

for a quick and snappy prototype, I'd recommend using Bubble or Webflow (With Wized + Xano) or Weweb (amazing).

But imo Discourse is just the best solution. it seems a bit of work the first time but it is very easy with plenty of step by step beginner tutos and advanced ones on youtube. "how to install discourse".

Choosing this one you will thx me later, it offers so much that is the go-to solution for forums. Plenty of great SaaS already use it for years as Webflow.

If you need a no code expert or job we built Myjobnest . Good luck with your community!

If you want to build from scratch, I recommend Adalo. You can make native apps and web apps for mobile and desktop, plus free to host unlimited apps , limited data. If you dont want to make this yourself, try mighty networks. Its a community app, cheaper than disciple, but no video posting or streaming capability, more like facebook. you can add a member fee and private groups within.

Hey what did you do ultimately?
I have a similar problem... so far I've found https://www.disciplemedia.com/community-platform/ but I'm still looking for cheaper options

hey bud - what path did you end up taking?
Trying to build something similar and don't like the idea of having people log in to multiple places. (e.g. slack, discord, our community website with deals etc.)

you don't need a tool to "host" a community, its like re-inventing the wheel. If you need something extra => it only makes sense at scale.

You are probably just good with newsletter / TG broadcast.

For any community/forum type app, I always recommend bubble. You'll need heavy workflows and conditionals as well as customizations. You can hack together a forum using other tools but long-run, with scale in mind, bubble is your go to.

@Hackme29 We are doing something similar at NoCodeSheets

Well, you cannot create exactly a community/forum, but you can publish your own curated content and write blog content etc right from Google sheets.

The content that you write in Google sheets gets automatically created as blog posts.