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> Your community cannot represent a Stack Overflow-sized massive knowledge base. Worth noting I think that Stack Overflow started (relatively) small itself, an
by wool_gather 7y ago
> Your community cannot represent a Stack Overflow-sized massive knowledge base.
Worth noting I think that Stack Overflow started (relatively) small itself, and that it followed your two points. The membership "seeding" was the readers of Jeff and Joel's blogs. Both of them, Jeff and Joel, were very visible and active at least in the meta aspects of the site. Jeff in particular was happy to discuss how the site worked or should work with anyone who was interested.
I think you're right that these are key elements.
- mattmanser 7y agoJoel also had a community going already with the "business of software" forum (imo the spiritual predecessor of HN, patio11 was very well know there) and the comments sections of Jeff's blog was a great place for discussion too. They also had a really good podcast going as they were developing it. And a good 'bad guy' too, the site with a dash (experts-exchange).
- JohnBooty 7y agoWell very true and well said. I think that instead of saying, Your community cannot represent a Stack Overflow-sized massive knowledge base. ...it would have been more accurate for me to say: Your community cannot IMMEDIATELY represent a Stack Overflow-sized, massive knowledge base. =)