Community Questions

What are some strategies did apps like Instagram and SnapChat use when they were completely empty upon launch? How did they grow their initial communities?

Community Growth Instagram Snapchat

asked Mar 20 '14 at 11:26

Orlando Osborne
30 points

I'd like to ask you for the help/advise to come out of the problem that came out recently in our group. We're working for 3-4 months on the web application similar to http://instagram.com/ or...

Strategy Community Open Source Micro Startup Relationships

asked May 10 '13 at 22:06

Igor
111 points

What are some innovate ways to help welcome and integrate new users in a paid community where a free trial is offered? Let me provide my specific example, current solutions, and potential issues....

Community

asked Feb 11 '13 at 06:23

Jeff Gaudette
45 points

I run a community for pug owners. It's been around for nearly 7 years and it's a "popular" site within the pug community. It's a completely custom site (I built the whole thing from...

Community Social Network

asked Jan 30 '13 at 04:14

Shpigford
146 points

I'm currently working on a social website that bases itself on specific sub-communities (something along the lines of Reddit meets Pintrest for lack of a better description). What are some...

Social Media Community Social Network Promotion

asked Jan 25 '13 at 03:41

Chris
111 points

I have a site that works like Elance and Odesk in a way.and I am looking for a strategy or at least an Idea of how I can go about attracting freelancers to join my site. Any help will be highly...

Community Crowdsourcing

asked Nov 25 '12 at 10:33

I Scotts
152 points

I'm developing a fairly large web-application with a public-facing JSON REST API, mobile apps for every platform (using AngularJS with Apache Cordova) and specialised e-commerce configurable by...

License Recommendations Legal Community Open Source

asked Oct 22 '12 at 19:03

Stackoverflowuser95
6 points

Once a few serious users have been established for a community-based website intended for programmers, what are some concrete steps that you have personally taken to expand it? For...

Community Expanding

asked Apr 4 '12 at 10:23

Lance Lafontaine
190 points

What are some ways of profiting from a user-driven community-based website? The client base is for programmers, and it promotes getting individuals to come together, work, and showcase their final...

Community Profitability

asked Apr 4 '12 at 10:33

Lance Lafontaine
190 points

Web startups with the theme of a "community" as in let's say a Match.com, a roommate finding service or even this site for that matter....my question is how do they gain their initial users? I am...

Launch Website Community Memberships

asked Mar 12 '12 at 13:32

M Ant29 M Ant29
6 points

I recently launched a web site but I have a dilemma between building a community completing business model at the moment the site just MVP so it has some attractive features but doesn't have...

Marketing Strategy Community Freemium MVP

asked Jan 18 '12 at 06:56

Altuure
103 points

Are there anyone using stackexchange like Q&A for their product? How great has it been in building a community of helpers and engaging the user in how to use your software? I plan on making a...

Community Tech Support

asked Dec 7 '11 at 18:10

Kim Jong Woo
644 points

a bit of background before my question: I've built a video sharing website that is specific to extreme sports, where users currently embed videos from third-party websites like Vimeo or Youtube....

Competition Community Video

asked Sep 26 '11 at 10:11

Nick Budden
129 points

I'm wondering if there exist any community driven site, to join two kind of people... Developers creating new software products (web, desktop, mobile) to be reviewed, but not as a paid tesing...

Software Community Beta Early Adopters

asked Sep 14 '11 at 06:00

Nestor Sanchez A
690 points

For a couple of months now, myself and a couple of contacts of mine have been pondering ways to develop an incubator to bridge the entrepreneurial resources of NYC (Silicon Alley) with Long Island...

Community Organization

asked Aug 21 '11 at 04:24

Theonlylos
397 points

My marketing team and I are working with a new local online newspaper to build a SEO campaign as well as a recruiting campaign to bring in writers. We are pretty well versed on SEO, but I was...

Community Blogging Content

asked Aug 26 '11 at 08:55

Aac
85 points

I run a site which relies on an internal social network for communication between teachers and students. Most updates to the news feed (think Facebook status update) are students posting their...

Community Social Network Compensation

asked Aug 13 '11 at 21:42

Jeff
154 points

I am thinking on working on an ERP system that I can sell or support on it. Currently, I have OpenERP and Tryton in my mind. Based on the comparison done on Wikipedia and other website, I was...

License Business Community Open Source

asked Jul 21 '11 at 10:38

Johan Sja
108 points

I know this has little to do with software start up companies. But throughout school and research I've concluded most startups have to go through the same things. I'm working on an event group that...

Website Community Online

asked May 20 '11 at 02:15

Daniel
36 points

i am running a dating website for 3 months now, have about 5000 unique visitors and 115k page views. My website was featured in a nationwide newspaper, really big though, and it is responsible for...

Community Growth Users

asked May 10 '11 at 16:20

Herr K
292 points