Six important factors for building online communities
I’m working on a full-length essay about building communities online and everything I’ve learned so far making Forrst, but here’s an outline to give a sense of what I’m thinking about.
- Don’t try to build a community
- Your first 50 to 100 users are the most important users you’ll ever have
- Be human
- Have a focus
- Always listen to users, but only sometimes
- Users need to feel ownership