One way to bootstrap a new community. Take an existing popular online forum. And create a "backchannel" on Slack / Discord. Results can be mixed. But in rare ca

One way to bootstrap a new community. Take an existing popular online forum. And create a "backchannel" on Slack / Discord. Results can be mixed. But in rare cases the new channel will supercede the old One thing that does work is maintaining a critical mass of "influencers". Likeable people who post high quality content with predictable regularity ;) Observable is one community I follow. I think a lot of people had the idea to create of network of Jupyter / Collab notebooks (like Tableau's Gallery). But few have gained mainstream reach outside of their niche ps Observable is hiring in SF! https://observablehq.com/about https://observablehq.com/about