First 1,000 Members

🆕 Article

How did some of today's thriving product communities get their first 1,000 members? 🤔

It's something every community has to confront at some point.

So I dug into the early days of 18 different communities to uncover how they got their founding members, including how long it took to pass 1,000 members.

This includes lessons from Strava, Product Hunt, and Stack Overflow to Pocus, HashiCorp, Asana, and others.

The result is actionable tips on how to launch and follow-on tactics to kickstart your community, along with examples of the outreach used to get them going.

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🔁 ICYMI

The last issue was all about Kickstarting Community at: Substack.

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🌶️ Clickworthy

• 5 Reasons You Shouldn't Launch a Forum for Your Online Community by Noele Flowers

• Building internal alignment w/ Ben Gamble

• Why Community Engagement is Important w/ Diana Tripac

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📅 Workshops and events

• Remote Daily: How to Scale Communities? Feb 21 (free, online)

• Community-led Alliance: Community-Led Summit, Feb 22 (free, online)

• Rosieland: Community Onboarding Essentials: Best practices for community onboarding success, Feb 28 (free, online)

• Community-led Alliance: Community-Led Summit - Boston, April 11-12 (‘communityINC15’ gets 15% off)

• Led By Community: Community Onboarding Essentials: Best practices for community onboarding success, March 5 (free, online)

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🆕 Job listings

• Airbnb: Community Engagement Manager (DE)

• Atlassian: Community Marketing Manager (JPN)

• Bubble: Community Operations and Moderation Manager

• DesignerFund: Community Advocate (Part-Time)

• DocuSign: Sr. Community Engagement Manager

• Employment Hero: Community Manager (AUS)

• Input Output (IOHK): Community Moderator - Midnight

• Logitech: Community & Advocacy (Intern)

• Miro: Community Engagement Lead

• Multiverse: Community Engagement Lead

• Postman: Community Program Manager, Developer Relations (SF)

• Scopely: Sr. Manager, Community Management

• Traffic Think Tank: Freelance Community Manager

• User Interviews: Content & Community Director

• WeightWatchers: Lead, Community Engagement

Check out 74 more open roles: See the full list.

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