1000 paid members!
by Anne-Laure Le CunffThe Ness Labs private community just crossed 1000 paid members!
We now have events every week, co-working sessions, AMAs with experts, exclusive content, and more. The first Ness Labs online course will also be bundled with the membership.
I launched the community in March this year. Reaching 1000 members is an important milestone because it shows building a community can be a sustainable model. But you can't build a successful community overnight, however you define success: it takes a lot of time, energy, and care.
Still absolutely worth it.
I highly recommend it as a path to sustainability for indie hackers who are not quite ready to start a SaaS business. It's a great way to get to know your potential users, to bring them value early on, and to practice some of the same skills you will probably need to maintain a SaaS, such as customer support. Added bonus: you'll make friends along the way. :)
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Congrats on your 1,000 true fans!
Appropiate to read this today: https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/
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Thank you! Such a relevant article indeed :)
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Congrats, Anne-Laure! That's incredible.
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Huge milestone, congrats Anne 🎉
The benefit to communities is that they often compound with time. Looking forward to following the progress!
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Congrats @anthilemoon! I’ve followed you for awhile now and reads loads of your articles.
$5 strikes me as a low price considering all the value you’re probably adding. How do you think about your price?
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Love hearing your progress and being part of your community too!
We're also learning from your roadmap as we build our teacher community.
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Thanks so much, Rob! And glad my experience is useful to you in building your community :)
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I see you grow from the start is amazing! Congratulations Anne-Laure 😎🥳🎉 you did it!
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Thank you so much, Fajar!
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Anne-Laure, love this. I'm a member and just upgraded to annual, I appreciate the work you've put in here.
Is this a safe space to ask a question?
How does the duty and obligation of running this community sit with you? That energy and "care" you speak of, does that weigh heavily on you? Is it daunting, and heavy, or is it motivating and energising?
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Hi Jason! Thanks for being a member :)
It depends - there are days where I feel energised, and there are days where I feel like it's a lot of work. But when that happens I just do some light admin stuff like scheduling events, so I don't burn out.
It's more about maintaining consistency over the long term rather than aiming for unsustainable levels of intensity.
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