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Disciple - Gather, engage and monetise your online community

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Gather, engage and monetise your network with your own community platform. Create unlimited groups to segment your audience, sell online courses and subscriptions, promote events and structure content with a content library.
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Benjamin Vaughan
Maker
Hey Product Hunt! I hope everyone is doing well with what’s going on. I’m very excited to launch our new community platform. It’s the best way to create an independent, single-interest social space for your customers, fans and followers. Previously, social networks have been defined by a handful of open, centralised platforms like Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram. People capitalised on these networks by building large engaged followings within them. However, as these centralised networks have matured they have become increasingly congested. Reach and engagement has fallen and brand vulnerability has risen. This is why we created Disciple - to help change the direction of how people connect with each other and with things they are passionate about. We want to help businesses and creators build their own single interest networks easily and without any coding skills. Somewhere they can receive value from their community and deepen the relationships with their most valuable customers and fans. For the past two years, we've been helping hundreds of creators and businesses, such as The Rolling Stones and Forbes, to build and grow their communities. But after receiving a lot of interest from smaller communities we decided to create a more affordable community platform. - Built with the latest PWA (Progressive Web App) technology - so it is as friendly on - mobile as it is on desktop. - Customise your community space with your brand colours and logos. - Segment your audience by interest, location and demographic with unlimited groups and content feeds. - Charge subscriptions to join your community or a particular group (beta). - Promote your physical and online events. - Structure your content and other resources with an easy-to-use content library. - Members can create their own profiles, find, friend and message each other. - Members can use @mentions and topic hashtags to find relevant content and conversations. - and much more. You get a 7-day free trial and you don’t need to provide your card details to start. After that, it'll only cost $55/£45 per month to run the community and you’ll get new features and updates for free. We’d also love to give the Product Hunt community 30% off with the code: 30percentoff Let me know your thoughts in the comments below - I would love to hear where you think the direction of social media is heading! Thanks, Benji
Prakhar Shivam
Hi @benjidisciple, congrats on the launch! 🎉 The product looks good. I just wanted to know how is Disciple different from Mighty Networks?
Benjamin Vaughan
Maker
Thanks @prakharshivam! And great question. We are in the same industry, but there are some key differences between us. Mighty Networks describe themselves as a community website builder. We are an all-in-one community platform that includes your own publishing, analytics and community management console. You can also upgrade to our Mobile App offering at any time and we only charge a fraction of what Mighty Networks does, but with more functionality. But overall, we're trying to achieve the same: empower brands and creators to build independent communities of true value, outside of social media noise with better privacy and security.
Alex Jupiter
Maker
Hi all! I'm a product manager here at Disciple and based on everyone's feedback this seems like a great opportunity for us to review our product roadmap. What improvements would everyone like to see? Please submit your ideas and suggestions below.
JJ Donegan
Hey @alex_jupiter - great product, nice work! I think it would be really cool if we could customise the user profiles a bit more, maybe add some fields that are specifically relevant to my community?
Alex Jupiter
Maker
@jj_donegan great question! And I'm happy to say we're actively working on this. Whenever a member signs up to a community a host will be able to set a number of questions for them to answer. If these are "Public" questions the answers will be displayed on the member's profile. A host will also be able to filter members depending on these answers. You can expect this in approximately 3-4weeks :).
Jackie D
@alex_jupiter Hey Alex, this looks great for my community! I see you have direct messaging built it but is there any plans to add group messaging? That would be really cool! Nice work on this 👌
Alex Jupiter
Maker
Hey @jiggajack! Group messaging is coming within the next couple of weeks 😁. We're really excited to release this so definitely signup and we'll let you know when it arrives.
Ismet Osman
I was thinking of trialing your product but I think for something like this 7 days is not long enough to actually get a good feel for it.... Need a few days to setup, get used to it as an admin, then invite users, for them to start generating content, then to get feedback from them, just not possible within 7 fays
Benjamin Vaughan
Maker
@ismet_osman thanks for your feedback! We're thinking of extending the free trial for all customers. If you sign up now, and need more time, just DM me and we'll extend the trial :)
Ismet Osman
@benjidisciple I signed up, going through the setup process... already submitted a few feature requests
Jo Homan
I can imagine using this for the online orchard management course that I'm creating.
Benjamin Vaughan
Maker
Hey @jo_homan :) Our platform is great for online courses - we built it with that in mind! Let me know if you have any questions about it.
Eric Chiyembekeza
I am excited to get started with this! @benjidisciple
Benjamin Vaughan
Maker
Thanks @eric_chiyembekeza! Let me know if you have any questions.
Carlos Costa
Congrats on the launch!! How is the response of people trying the app as a Progressive Web App? Are you guys thinking of staying with PWA or moving towards something more native in the future?
Benjamin Vaughan
Maker
Thanks @carloscosta! So far, we have found that people have enjoyed the PWA version. We started off creating only native apps for communities but we found that smaller communities found the price inhibitive. Traditional websites weren't interactive enough though, which is why we have created the PWA option to bridge this gap and provide the benefits of both. We still offer native iOS and Android apps and communities can choose to upgrade to them at any point :)
Divyansh Patel
Congratulations @benjidisciple on the launch. I have been using the product for a few weeks and liked the concept of connecting it with the community. Branding your space and the users can also interact in different ways. Looking forward to future updates.
Benjamin Vaughan
Maker
Thanks @divjpatel! Great to hear that you like the product. Let me know if you have any questions about it :)
Conor Clarke
Congrats on the launch, this looks very promising :) By the way I also agree with other comments here that 7 days may not be enough time to properly test out the platform. Some comments left here too of some suggestions that might improve the landing page, cheers -- https://app.usebubbles.com/f46ed...
Benjamin Vaughan
Maker
Thanks @conor_clarke1 for your feedback - it's very useful! I've sent it to our design and marketing teams so they can have a look for themselves.
Riva Puati
This looks good I'll defo give it a try. I agree with what Ismet just said, 7 days doesn't seem like enough time to check out all the features. How is this different from tribe.so?
Benjamin Vaughan
Maker
Hey @riva_puati - Thanks for your questions and feedback :) If you feel that you need longer than 7 days then drop me a message and we'll extend the trial for you. And there are some similarities between us and Tribe.so. However, Tribe is more of a community website builder where you use different widgets to build up your community space. We offer a more holistic community platform that is created instantly - offering community hosts their own space that they own and control. We also offer community apps on iOS and Android.
Paul Woodthorpe
Have you thought about offering premium moderation for a fee? Your team (or future team) could handle moderating content and reported content for the site owner for an additional monthly fee, leaving them to do the fun stuff of talking to their audience and growing their audience instead of dealing with the housekeeping? Or is that something that you already offer?
Benjamin Vaughan
Maker
Hey @exopaul! Great idea. We do not offer this as an extra service currently. We offer community moderation and management tips and tools as part of the fee. But I'll discuss this idea with our Customer Success team next week.
Paul Woodthorpe
@benjidisciple Glad I helped suggest something. Moderation services are a big area that are often overlooked. Facebook and other social networks outsource their moderation to other companies a lot of the time as they only require a team to moderate their one very large network, but if you had it in-house and had all moderation coming into a central platform so a small team of moderators can deal with multiple smaller networks, then you could profit from this service in house as another revenue stream, rather than outsource it to another company as an expenditure. Happy to discuss any ideas with it, as I do have some moderating experience from a few years ago.
Luke Z
Tailored online communities are going to be the future and it's nice to see some new products in the sector popping up.
Benjamin Vaughan
Maker
@sunderluke Thanks for the feedback :)
Francisca
Nice.
Benjamin Vaughan
Maker
Thanks @francis81118571! Let me know if you have any questions.
Maff Scott
i like it !
Benjamin Vaughan
Maker
Thanks @maff_scott! Le me know if you have any questions :)
Akmaral Abdiyeva
I was actually thinking about doing a similar project! Great to see so much positive feedback around the idea :)
Benjamin Vaughan
Maker
@akmaral_abdiyeva1 Thanks for the feedback :)
Jairo Bernal
Hi @benjidisciple, This looks like a really interesting product! I'm interested in exploring further. I do have a question for you.. can I email you? Best, Jairo
Benjamin Vaughan
Maker
Thanks @jairobernal! And of course, drop me a message at bv@disciplemedia.com
Benjamin Vaughan
Maker
Hey @arecenello :) We originally chose the name when we worked more as an agency creating apps for bands. We chose it as it refers to the dedication with which a thriving, engaged community will follow the community’s leader or host. Since then however we have moved on to work with influencers, brands, community enthusiasts and many more, but we decided to keep the name as a memory of where we started. I hope that explains the thinking behind our name :)
Stephen Campbell
For how long is the 30% OFF discount good for? And does it apply to the Mobile App as well?
Benjamin Vaughan
Maker
Hey @stephenalan! The discount is for the first the first year and is only for the web version. Let me know if there's anything else you want to find out :)
Fabio Araujo
Hey Benjamin, ¿what about SEO?
Fry
Maker
@faraujoj Hi Fabio. For now our web communities are private for privacy reasons. Only registered members can access the content. We are planning to open up the option to turn your community from "private" to "public" which will offer options like customising keywords, indexing posts on public groups and letting the community host in control on what is going to be indexed or not. We believe in community organic growth and SEO is obviously a big theme for us. We're planning on working on this this quarter and potentially having a first version before the end of it. If you have any suggestion, please share it with us. We're still in the discovery phase. Thank you very much for bringing this up
Jens Thraenhart
I am looking for an online community for a business association. I wanted to get feedback from anybody using Disciple, Mighty Networks, Hivebrite, or any other community platforms. Thank you.