💎The Key Points of Stripe Success and Growth & How to Find the Right Product Idea

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Community Building Tools for all Your Needs by @gordon

• Mighty Networks - A comprehensive community tool that also has online courses, and memberships together in one place.
• Tribe - Tribe is an integrated community platform that you can bolt on to your existing website. It allows you to create a stand-alone or integrated community website. Another good option for those starting out.
• Hivebrite - Is an all in one community platform. They seem to be geared more towards enterprise clients and larger organizations.

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How I can find the right product idea by @microvert

Welcome to indie hackers! You're in the right place. A lot of us have been in your shoes before.
My advice is to just start building something you're interested in and don't worry about making money just yet. However, don't just build a thing and throw it on the pile. The important bit is that you actually "ship" it and show it to the world.
You might be thinking, why would I bother wasting my time building something that I'm not going to make money from? There are actually lots of reasons this is is a good idea.1.You will run into lots of problems along the way. Problems are good because they get your brain into idea mode.
2. You'll learn to ship and tell people what you're doing. These are super important skills outside the technical stuff.
3. Probably 50 to 80% of the stuff you build will be somewhat reusable in your next project. Having existing codebases and deployment pipelines is tremendously useful.
4. A lot of good ideas come about when you pivot your first idea into a different idea. This happens because in the process making one thing you discover a market for something else related. You'd probably never even notice that market unless you're next to it.
5. You'll start getting into the habit of regularly working on something. Don't underestimate how important building habits are.

My final thought is to build something super small that you think you can build in a weekend (it'll probably take you a week or two in reality). If you can keep the time-frame down it'll feel more like a small challenge rather than a hard slog.

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How do you get to know co-workers when you're remote? by @Matthewhall

Setting at least 5 minutes at the start of every meeting for normal chit chat is super valuable. It's the same as having a face to face chat in the office before or after a meeting.

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High impact writing by @harrydry

• No introduction
• Short sentences
• Short paragraphs
• Plain English
• Fast points
• No wasted words
• Clarity above everything

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How I grew Remote Weekly to ~4300 subscribers by @karthik_2206

Product Hunt:
We got a lot of subscribers from product hunt. We launched multiple times on PH by creating Remote Work Guide, Remote Worker stories, Remote Tools etc.
Twitter:
A couple of our tweets did well and drove a lot of traffic to our website. And we have subscription boxes at various places on our website.
HN:
This wasn't a great channel for us, unfortunately. I think our content isn't very aligned with the audience. But a couple of times, we got average traffic.
SEO:
We worked quite a bit to get our Domain Authority up by writing guest posts, etc. So, over a period of time, we have started ranking for keywords and that has helped get good traffic which converts to subscribers.
Signups:
A lot of teams post their products on our platform to market their product. Then their colleagues join to support them through upvotes, etc.
Good lead capturing pages:
We have subscription boxes and unobtrusive popups (You can check it here)

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1. The Key Points of Stripe Success and Growth (Thread) (Excellent Read) by @Jimzarkadas

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2. The "Verticalization" of Zoom by @lnegritto

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3. TenThings I Learnt Growing a Paid Community (Weekend Club) to $500 MRR by @Charlieward

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4. Monster Thread on Selling Side Projects (Good Read) by @Rosiesherry

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5. Nervous About Launch on Product Hunt? Launch a Mini Side Project First! by @Brunor

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6. Eight Reasons Why Your Community Is Not Engaging by @Kanglelin

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