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Community building for SaaS products
Just listened to this great conversation: https://open.spotify.com/episode/64CbOzlVTYM86A35tSaHhG
What tips/pitfalls do people have related to community building for or around a SaaS product? What strategies work best?
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No shock since it's what we're building, but we (and our closed beta users!) user trelliswork.com to make our meeting time more structured and intentional.
What products do you use to manage your time?
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User onboarding into our closed beta (trelliswork.com)! We're totally in a "cross the chasm" mode where we did a great first round of user onboarding over the last 3 months, but now we're very much in "how do we expand beyond our own extended network" to get new users.
PH launch next month
What are your goals for March ? Let's support each other
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Novel Ways to Share Small Feature Updates
We're toying around with repeatable, bite-sized videos that we can share with our community to socialize new features and also just continually get eyes on what we're building. Trick is to make them easily repeatable (we don't really have time for this!) but still keep it interesting. Anyone else trying things like this? Thoughts?
https://www.loom.com/share/58d79ef0347141c7a0602a039cad5dc9
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What unique rituals have you seen on high performing teams?
A great team has its own rituals that create space for culture, creativity, and just stepping out of the grind if only for a moment. What are good one's you've seen or been a part of? Doesn't have to be about the work - often these are more about the people.
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This is my jam (trelliswork.com). Without getting on too much of a soapbox here: The time teams actually spend together is some of the most critical time at an organization. It's not just about productivity - it's alignment, engagement, buy-in, team culture, team autonomy... and also productivity and getting stuff done. And all of this is x100 if we're talking about hybrid/remote. In that...
How can you manage time during meetings and work effectively?
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This one's a great example of us basically doing an hour long product ideation and priority session... and also recording it for the podcast! https://www.trelliswork.com/podc...
Podcasting as Part of Build in Public
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Podcasting as Part of Build in Public
Hey Product Hunt community! Three months ago I got a discussion going here in the merits and challenges of podcasting as part of building in public. Well, we did it!
https://trelliswork.com/podcast
For our product, Trelliswork (launching soon), we started a weekly podcast with the intention of being "radically transparent" in what we were up to. We've really pushed to make sure it doesn't...
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Who actually built for Google Glass, à-la the PH logo?
What was it? Bonus points if it was for cats
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How do you balance time spent building vs. everything else (evangelizing, funding, networking...)?
Especially for a new product headed for launch!
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Empathy and kindness. I know that sounds cliche/fluffy, and I really am the furthest from someone who would throw out banal platitudes for no reason. So call it "Emotional Intelligence." But unless you're a one-person shop you're working with people, and even the most stoic coworker still has their own messiness and humanity. A group of people is more than just a bunch of individuals ticking...
Which soft skill do you think is the most essential for career growth?
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What is your experience in podcasting (producing or listening) as part of "building in public?"
Effective marketing tool? Useful self reflection? Anything off limits?
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Focus on small problems. “There is only one way to eat an elephant: a bite at a time.”
What's your secret for staying motivated and not feeling discouraged?
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The ability to easily shift into more creative mindsets. At home, if I'm working through a tricky problem and need to change things up I can much more easily go for a walk, sit in the back yard, or even kick a soccer ball around or pluck out a tune on the piano. All things that help my brain solve problems better, and all things that were much harder to do in the office. WFH has given me a huge...
What's your favorite perk of WFH?
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Honestly here's where passion and alignment have mattered for me: When a startup and team will live or die on execution. If you have a group of people and you're headed into the trenches to try to make some idea a reality AND the path to that reality isn't obvious - then, passionate leaders who can inspire that same passion in their teams in critical. If the path is set (you have the anchor...
How important is it to be passionate about the problem your business is solving?
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