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Slack isn't a Great tool to create communities, it seems to be a fact. How should be the perfect one?

I stumbled across this post https://www.indiehackers.com/post/slack-isnt-a-good-community-building-tool-a3fd726a7f made few years back.

The trends have not really changed since the time. We are trying an attempt with my team, to provide a proper community building platform for companies.
The ideas are to enable companies to drive engagement between employee with the usage of purposeful communities, for example communities around photography, climbing and many more fun stuff.

A community should be a whole universe by himself.

I used the expression "Community Building Platform" because is allows not to create one huge community like it's done on slack, but to create many dedicated communities and enable different feature in each of them.

A list of initial feature is:

  • Feed system
  • Live Streaming
  • Events
  • Video Conference (Webinar tool more like Zoom)
  • Forums
  • Content moderation capabilities
  • Company (or organization wide) announcement board

We plan on adding more to the platform as:

  • Audio chat room
  • Text Chat
  • Groups within communities
  • Community Goals (Leader-board)
  • Fun Games Platform (Word, number, an d more fun games)

Unlike most of existing or widely used tools (Slack, Discord, etc.) which are primarily communication tools, our community platform is more a Community as a service platform where an organization has the possibility to create as many communities as needed and each community is a whole universe by himself.

Check us out at: https://www.workbud.com

Please feel free to comment, I am available to respond any question on the topic or the platform.
A feedback would be appreciated as well, thank you.

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    I think some of the best community platforms/ network: Mighty Networks, Discourse, Community (app)

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    Looks promising mate. Checking it out soon

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      Thank you !
      Are you using slack for the same purpose currently ?

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        I have used Slack previously to hold public communities. We are looking to create our community soon for our Startup

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