Creator to Community: Small Bets

💡 A new experiment, this time diving into how creators began community-powered businesses and how they run and grow them. Let me know what you think.

🆕 Creator to Community:

Daniel Vassallo is an Indie Hacker turned Small Bets community co-host.

He left behind a cushy software job seeking independence as a creator. His first app Userbase got a lot of coverage but wasn’t sustainable.

But he turned things around and now runs an online community for “small-time entrepreneurs” that earns over $400,000 per year with a growing membership of 4,500+ people.

Discover:

• 💵 How Small Bets makes money

• 📈 What drives growth and keeps members sticking around

• ⚙️ How the community is run and the tools that power it

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🔁 ICYMI

The last issue was all about Community Growth at: dbt Labs.

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🌶️ Clickworthy

• This Is Community In 2024 (A Strategic Briefing For The Year Ahead) by Richard Millington

• What’s the ROI of community? with Max Pete

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📅 Workshops and events

• Lima: Community Hackathon, London, Jan 23

• Lightning talks: Community, DevRel, and GTM Experts in 8 minutes, Jan 31

• Rosieland: Exploring Community Flywheels, Feb 13

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🆕 Job listings

• Asana: Community Program Lead, Membership (SF)

• DocuSign: Customer Advocacy Manager

• Figma: Director, Customer Education and Community Support

• K-RITE: Community Specialist (India)

• Maxwell: Chief Membership Officer (NYC)

• Nike: Social Community Impact Senior (France)

• Reddit: Staff, Community Product Marketing Manager (Contract)

• TEFL: Social Media & Community Manager (UK)

• Work on Climate: Community Program Manager

Check out 70 more open roles: See the full list.

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