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I think it might be worth partnering with someone who specializes in community building, then. The easy part is what you’ve done already. It truly looks awesom

I think it might be worth partnering with someone who specializes in community building, then. The easy part is what you’ve done already. It truly looks awesome, but unfortunately it really is just the beginning. The much, much harder part is getting people to keep coming back and contributing themselves. There’s nothing technologically impressive about HN, the reason we’re here is because everyone’s already here, and the reason everyone’s already here YC and Paul Graham. Without huge names like that behind your project, you’re going to be growth hacking and bootstrapping.

pkdpic 4y ago
> I think it might be worth partnering with someone who specializes in community building, then. Curious if anyone has any concrete experience on what this step looks like / how thats done. And for whatever it's worth I agree on some level that building the site is the easy part but I still remember when building a functioning well-designed web app seemed daunting / impossibly complex and it still is to most people. A beautiful working site like this is always an achievement. [speaking to myself mostly] I think anyone that can build social platform alternatives like this should as often as possible to create a richer ecosystem less in danger of being dominated by abusive / destructive monopolies. Were still in the car brand phase of social platform options when it seems like we could be at a artisan coffee roasters level. I want to find my next social media app at a farmers market.