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Which is the best platform to build an online community?
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Kyle Tummonds
From my experience, I found that Reddit is a great place to build a community. In addition, if you can offer several mediums for a community to grow, I've found that this provides better results. If you have a reddit community, you can also guide these users to a discord channel as well. This way, the conversation can continue outside of your main posts. It's also really good for support if you are offering a product.
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@kyle_tummonds Solid choice. Reddit has many sub communities that have very specific themes thus meaning that you can find anything you wish. You may nurture niche products, cultivate relationships and build small but strong communities.
I personally prefer discord as it allows for better channel optimization, it allows bots, sub channels connected to other channels, has an outreach to web3 as well and many other perks (social features).
@kyle_tummonds second this! Reddit is, of the community focused platforms, the best that's out there. For now, anyway.
@apollon440 Yes, the Reddit sub-communities make it a unique platform for building a genuine community. And I agree Discord allows great automation to make your community while you sleep!
@kivaujla Absolutely! It's astonishing the type of communities that you can find. There's literally a community for anything you can think of.
Using Circle for https://microsaasidea.com So far, no issues.
But I have seen people using Discord too.
We created frond.com and successfully launched it on Product Hunt. Our goal is to offer a great user experience that strips away the technical look and feel of community platforms while still providing all the features that professional admins expect.
I know a lot of us are trying to build communities across different spaces - from Fb, Tw, Slack, Reddit & now Discord. While I think it totally depends on your ICP. For example, my ICP (eCommerce - brands & agencies) are active across different channels, depending on how dedicatedly the community drivers are carrying out rituals. My group is trying something separate, a community built on circle.so, to create exclusivity, regular ritual automations, and using circle.so UI which makes consumption of content a lot easier, like this: https://community.dtcdrive.com/c...
as it depends on the specific needs and goals of the community. Some popular options include social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, as well as dedicated community-building platforms like Discourse and Mighty Networks.
Ive seen plenty of startups use Discord or Slack. Ghost.io and Substack are great if you are also publishing/writing insights. Circle.so is good for your own forum or a simple Buddypress/Wordpress equivalent.
Depending on the type of people you want to join your community, I would utilise free platforms, social media groups where they are, utilise customers to an email list/forum/invite to community platform. Depends if its product orientated community/content orientated or for social.
Having co-created the lablab.ai community, I found Discord to be a great platform for community building.
Twitter is hands down the best for communities around tech. If you are targeting a much older demographic then maybe include Facebook too.
Circle.
Reddit.
Kajabi.
MemberDev.
Uscreen.
Podia.
HumHub.
Disciple.https://twicsy.us/
In general, I'd say you can't go wrong with PH, Discord, or Reddit. But your audience may be more active on other platforms, so it's best to choose based on whatever group of people you are trying to reach.
Noticing that no one has mentioned WhatsApp? I find it to be incredibly efficient to get small communities off the ground before moving to another platform – and who knows, with WhatsApp's new Communities feature, it might work for larger communities as well. What do you think?
Reddit is a little difficult to crack but worth it if you can, there is PH and Twitter. Have you tried twitter or reddit?