Community focused startups, share your secret! 🤐 🙂

Perhaps, start with a few hundreds of ai bots pretending to be real user. Use them to engage real users 😜

Really just promoting your community as much as you can That's how we grew the Evoke discord :)

I'm surprised to see so many answers about using AI bots to pose as actual users and interact with them... not sure about everyone else, but that just makes me uncomfortable 😅 In my experience, you can have Discord, Facebook, and Slack communities with huge numbers, but they're essentially dead. I feel like the most engaged communities have great stories, history, lore, heroes, and heroines. One of my favorite tactics is recruiting community members to do projects (e.g. make a community newsletter to help newbies onboard and promote to more friends) Right now I'm in the process of building a community of Creators and Experts (real people) that are focused on collaboration and forming partnerships. There's an application process solely to eliminate bots haha If you're a human and interested in collaborating with us and being a part of it, feel free to check it out: https://nas.io/creators-and-experts

Good question, We take our Community as serious as we take our product. Take a look at this approach and find best ways that fit your capacity: The community is not the one that's around your platform, The community is the most natural part and an asset of your platform. You can check gaming communities on Discord. They are massive and drives the games more than creators or any marketing team can do.

Engage with your audience regularly and listen to their feedback. Create a culture of inclusivity and make it easy for members to connect with each other. Host events and create valuable content to keep users engaged

I think knowing your community very well is key - understanding what people talk about, what are their interests and needs, what they need and why they even joined your community + what they expect from it. Understanding what are specific groups of users among your community and maybe first of all - what is the target audience for your startup

In addition to great pieces of advice here, I would list a few things that keep (would keep) me in a community: 1. Exclusive deals/discounts/giveaways 2. Getting help from members about the product I am using (for example I am in react-native related channels) 3. Ability to share my product/ideas and get feedback 4. Channels just for fun with memes and funny stuff :) 5. Product I really wanna support, share feedback and help to make it better

⚡ Tip: You can create a "private community" for free using Google Spaces: https://support.google.com/chat/... - Organized by in-line threading, or - Organized by conversation topic Like discord, but more "googley"

There are many. One I'd single out is to find a way to facilitate an offline community from your online one While hanging out online is great, nothing beats face-to-face, having food and/or drinks together.

listen to your community, respond to their questions, really show up and support them.