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Community Stack by Threado — Discover what tools the world’s best communities run on
Finding the right tools for your community is complicated. We made this FREE community tool recommendation app so you can discover the best tools used by the world’s top communities. Get custom recommendations based on your community type, size, & budget.
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A big shoutout to @thisiskp_ for hunting us!
👋 Hello Product Hunters,
I’m Shalini. I head Growth at Threado, the command centre for your online community.
I invested my last couple of years in speaking with almost 150+ community builders to learn more about how they run their communities and the challenges they face along the way! I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to learn hands-on about a lot of tools they recommended and to be part of a bunch of top global communities like Demand Curve, 100DaysofNoCode, Superpath and see these tools being put to great use in the community!
🤔 The Problem:
There are around 1000+ tools available in the community space today! With so many options available, it becomes really hard to narrow down on that ‘perfect tech stack’ for your community! You might get recommendations from fellow community builders, but how do you know if it is the right tool for your community? After all, every community is unique and different.
🛠 Our Solution:
The Community Stack.
Finding the right community tech stack is half the battle won. We suggest 20 tools for multiple use-cases, suited to your community! The recommendations are based on your community size, type and your budget for the tech stack. We surveyed a bunch of top global communities of varied sizes and categories to land upon the best-recommended tools.
It is built completely on a NoCode tech stack using Webflow, Airtable, Typeform and Zapier. It’s super simple - just answer 7 simple questions and voila, the tech stack will be delivered to your email! And, it’s FREE of course!
Special thanks to @michaeljnovotny for bringing this to life. 🙌
I hope you find it useful! I’m looking forward to your feedback.
Is there a use case that we’ve not addressed here? Leave a comment below and we’ll curate a tool recommendation for that! 👇
@thisiskp_ @michaeljnovotny @shalini_nair_tekwani This is something worth looking into. It can be overwhelming to select the right tools and a customized tech stack sounds like a great idea.
Good luck and congrats on the launch!
@thisiskp_ @shalini_nair_tekwani I really enjoyed creating this and happy to see how it has helped folks. Community Managers have a hard job. Let's make it easier for them to help more people by finding the right tools.
Another great resource. Keep them coming @shalini_nair_tekwani, @michaeljnovotny and the rest of the team 🙌
@hdkstr - thank you so much for supporting us always Harold, means much! :)
Communities has become the lifeline for any startup and to have a good idea of the tools and how you are going to go about is crucial. I just completed the form and got really good suggestions. Of course this information would have been available by doing google search but to have this info available in less than 5 minutes is just fantastic. Thanks team and all the best 🛫
@arunpariyar love the feedback! You've put it all so aptly! Thank you for sharing this :)
Threado has amazing content on community building and now they've created a very useful tool to identify the best stack for community building. Great work team!
Threado Team, the biggest congratulations ever! The level of dedication and attention to detail you put into your work amazes me. I've found sooo much value on your platform! You're awesome, thank you for sharing tools and knowledge with us! @prao25 @shalini_nair_tekwani @michaeljnovotny @aryan_pareek @srishti_says @nitesh_arora and @thisiskp_, congratulations again!
@livia_burbulea thank you so much for the feedback and support Livia! Keeps us going!
@livia_burbulea Thank you for the kind words. Glad it would be of help to you! :)
Love this! I've been struggling with figuring out the right tools for a small community that I want to build. Can see how useful Threado will be for folks like me!
@prao25 You couldn't have chosen a better timing for this release. Now everyone and their dog are building stacks for all sorts of things! I'm sure a product like yours will come in handy.
This looks interesting! But I'm sorry, it's not quite clear how this works? Communities on a particular site or in general? It's just the first time I've seen this kind of product 👍🏼
@diana_sfera Hi Diana, thanks for asking a question! Maybe we could be more clear about that. We help provide a simple starting point based on your community size, community type and budget. And we have aggregated all the data we have gathered from communities like that to provide a simple starting point based on that. That is the list you receive when you fill out the form. The purpose is to help save time for folks to see what tools folks are using for different use cases like, network enabling. Does that help?
A big shoutout to @michaeljnovotny and @shalini_nair_tekwani for bringing this idea to life. Thank you so much for making me a part of this. Looking forward to your feedback on the product.
@srishti_says Was great working with you Srishti! :) Great work!
It was Really great working on Community Stack. Thanks for all the support so far and very much looking forward to everyone's feedback on this product!!!! Hope this helps you find the best tools for your Community!!
You didn't really solve the Problem as you defined it.
How do you know if it is the right tool for your community?
This tool fundamentally fails to answer that question.
It absolutely sends a list of links to Threado's website for the tools it recommends (happily surprised to find that they were not affiliate link pages) but fails to tell me why the selected tool is right for my category/industry (Why is "Support" not an option?) and why a different tool isn't a good fit.
Filled out the form and I still don't know if it is "the right tool for your community?". I just know that you put it in a list and said "use this".
Landing page tool/site: Why should I use Carrd, but not Webflow based on my selections. Just because it's free? Is there another free tool that might also be appropriate as well? What are the advantages of one over the other? Sure I might have selected Free, but should I try to find budget for Webflow if I can? Maybe the benefits would be worth trying to get funds.
This could be a great tool, but there isn't much value in it today for the end users.
@historian Hey David thanks for the feedback! I love the suggestions of adding more context around advantages of one tool over another, suggesting additional tools that are similar and what benefits might be worth trying to use a paid tool compared to free. Thats really helpful and something we can expand on in a v2.
The purpose we wanted to accomplish is provide a quick easy way for folks to become aware of what are the best recommended tools based on what other communities are using.
For someone like you who is a community expert, maybe that's an obvious starting point. But for many community managers we talk to, it's not.
So we decided to create a free tool that saves time from guessing, searching and the pain of trying to figure it out on your own. It's a recommendation based on an in house survey, data and expertise from talking with other communities simplified into a starting point.
I think we can take everything you said and improve upon this to make it better. Thank you for that!
@michaeljnovotny I agree, this is good as starting place for those who don't have a base to work from. And it gave me knowledge of tools I wasn't fully aware of. I do believe adding context to your choices will bring greater value to those new to Community Management.
Nice product guys! 🤘🏻 Me and my team will definitely benefit from these informations🚀
@aashi_1994 Thanks for the feedback! :) Hope it help you and your community!
Hey thanks Tom. Your an inspiration to me for what you’re building. Thanks for the encouragement!
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