I m the @Product Hunt CEO, I ve launched 7 times on PH, and helped countless friends prep their launches. The most common mistake I see is a confusing tagline. Launching on Product Hunt soon? Tell me your tagline and I ll fix it for you :)
Hey everyone! I'm Rosie Sherry and I love building communities. I started about 15 years ago with meetups, I then started Ministry of Testing and boostrapped that to $1.5M annual revenue over 10 years. I still (co)own, but don't run the business day to day. I led the community over at Indie Hackers for a couple of years. More recently I started Rosieland, a community for community builders. This has evolved over the past couple of years, from a newsletter, to a paid newsletter and now to a community with a 'community garden' approach. Rosieland is still my side-gig as I recently joined Orbit
Do you run a (niche) newsletter? Please paste the link here and answer me one question - how do you promote it? How do you find and target your audience?
I almost ran to get to my working seat this morning and start working already. It was a long time I haven't felt this way. Usually, when I walked to my coworking space, I was taking my time, wandering a bit, buying a coffee on the way in, etc... What is the strongest signal you have observed when you are in this motivational zone?
Most entrepreneurs, especially bootstrappers are working from home, alone, struggling with trying to get paying users, and not really knowing what to do... There are just too many variables... Any tips to deal with it?
Hey everyone! It's bittersweet to say that today is my last day at Product Hunt! From a lurker to a maker to a founder to working at Product Hunt is a wild journey and a dream come true. I'm forever grateful to @rrhoover and the whole Product Hunt team for welcoming me and allowing me to do things I love Lastly, I want to thank each of you in this community for making this space an epic destination for makers, founders, and product enthusiasts. Y'all are rockstars! Love you all PS: My next adventure starts at On Deck. I'm excited to be back at building and making things.
We all know that a community can increase sales and grow the product. But it s hard to make people interested in the product before it is launched. How do you unite people in a community and stir up interest?
I m Rosie Sherry and I ve been building communities for quite some time! I m here to answer anything and everything I can about community building. Here are some of the things I ve done: - I started back in 2006 with a local Girl Geek Dinner Meetup
- I founded Ministry of Testing, an indie, 7 figure revenue and profitable community of practice for software testers. I handed this community over for someone else to run (I did not sell it).
- I led the community at Indie Hackers for a couple of years
- I started Indiependent, a small community for indie founders where people get kicked for inactivity
- I ve been writing about community at Rosieland (covering community growth, flywheels, Minimum Viable Communities, Community Discovery, and much more!)
- I breathe, eat, sleep community Ask me anything about community, I can cover things like:
- Tools to use, or not
- Community on a budget
- Community as a business
- Minimum Viable Communities
- Community Discovery
- Community Growth & Flywheels
- Building a sustainable community
- Community trends
- Why so many people are getting community wrong! I'll be answering questions on the 7th of September!
I try it many times with tools also like tweethunter, but on a daily basis I can't make it happen as a routine. Please give me some advice, I want to share my story as a founder and build a community.
It's hard to get people interested in a product before it launches. How can one build momentum and generate buzz around an upcoming launch? Any thoughts on this would be much appreciated.
Christmas is coming, and the closer it gets, the fewer people think about work How do engage with your community during this season? Do you just post more entertaining content? Have you started some Christmas content or giveaway? Would also be interesting to hear your experience from previous years
I'm planning out my year for serving people with community building things. I'd love to know... Where do you get stuck building community? And what would you like to learn about how to build one?