Community Questions

I recently set up an open-source infrastructure for Obix. Obix is a new, object-oriented programming language designed to help people writing more reliable code in less time. More information can...

Recruiting Community Open Source Promotion People

asked Apr 20 '11 at 17:05

Christian Neumanns
11 points

My start up business will be a social service that also hooks to a mobile application. I want my users to be able to interact with my service over their phones or on their PCs. Naturally I'm...

Community Web Services Mobile

asked Mar 28 '11 at 18:35

Long Winter
271 points

Active forums and communities take on a life of there own. My question is how to get started. A forum with tumbleweeds rolling through it will never get anywhere. There is some kind of minimum...

Community Forum

asked Mar 19 '11 at 04:08

Kenneth Vogt
2,917 points

I'm launching a new Q&A community and was wondering how specific a market I should target while seeding and promoting the site in its early stages. If the ultimate goal is for it to become the...

Marketing Launch Community Promotion

asked Jan 19 '11 at 03:09

Zakgottlieb
103 points

In the next year or so I am opening up a website that targets coders and designers. Some features will be a blog (or blogs), categories to submit stuff and also a forum to help build a community....

Marketing Blog Website Community Bloggers

asked Dec 18 '10 at 14:09

Trippy
106 points

For the past year I've been working on a recipe-sharing startup called Fridge to Food based on the idea of crowd sourcing recipes. We went to public beta a few months ago and I've been doing rounds...

Community Beta Crowdsourcing

asked Dec 22 '10 at 04:13

Daniel Bingham
148 points

I know this depends on the community in question, how actively I am marketing it, how well search engines have indexed it and so forth. But I was wondering if there are some good guidelines in...

Community Growth

asked Nov 28 '10 at 05:36

Daniel Bingham
148 points

My team is soon to release a new website. Essentially, the site is a collaborative game that relies on the community to be sustained. What are some techniques/ideas for gathering the initial...

Marketing Ideas Community

asked Dec 1 '10 at 01:24

Stephen Watkins
126 points

Beside my two startups I invest 99% of my time in, I have several side projects I started just for fun. Trying out new programming languages, those kind of things. One of these side projects is a...

Monetization Community

asked Sep 5 '10 at 05:38

Marckohlbrugge
121 points

We have a website, which is the entry point to install our software product. The software is targeted to wide range of individuals. My question is - should we put a forum on our website and allow...

Community Learning

asked Jun 30 '10 at 19:58

Pawel A
191 points

I have the idea to open a user targeted community. This is based on an unusual business case where the software developped is actually also / mainly used in house (and planned to be turned into a...

Community

asked Jun 6 '10 at 17:10

Net Tecture
11 points

I am in the process of reaching out to various groups on linkedin/digg/reddit/twitter to find participants. Anybody have input on my idea, or advice on the best way to organically grow this...

Marketing Community Blogging

asked Jan 13 '10 at 18:36

Robbie
40 points

I'd like to brainstorm with some others on what you think are options for "incentivising" users to use a site in a community. eg. things like user retention, and increasing the odds that people are...

Incentives Community

asked Dec 25 '09 at 08:56

Matt
460 points

We're building an online community which will have a very active forum with large user base. Please share your experiences and tips on building a large forum community. What're the initial...

Community

asked Nov 4 '09 at 08:50

Boolean
388 points