Kickstarting a community on top of a product: Recent Episodes

Louise Bayssat

Hi! I'm Louise, co founder at Hera (https://www.hera.so/). We're building the first community-powered calendar app. In this podcast series, I'll be talking to a few community builders to learn more about their journey and hopefully help others grow their own communities.

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In this podcast series, I'll be talking to a few community builders to learn more about their journey and hopefully help others grow their own communities.

Justyn is our fourth panelist. He is the Community Lead at PhotoRoom.

In this episode, you'll learn:

👉 How Justyn ended up building communities - 00:45'

👉 Why PhotoRoom decided to gather their members on Facebook - 02:10'

👉 How they got their first members to join - 02:45'

👉 What PhotoRoomers are looking for in the community - 03:45'

👉 Justyn's thoughts on community management tools - 06:10'

👉 The hardest thing with community building - 07:40'

👉 Justyn's secret sauce on community building - 09:15'

Enjoy!

Louise

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In this podcast series, I'll be talking to a few community builders to learn more about their journey and hopefully help others grow their own communities.

Emily is our third panelist. She is the Marketing Director at Voice.

In this episode, you'll learn:

👉 Emily's journey until her role at Voice - 00:45'

👉 A non technical explanation of what a NFT is - 02:10'

👉 How building a community in Web3 is different than in other industries - 03:23'

👉 How they're engaging with their community members on Discord - 04:53'

👉 How did they get the first people to join the community - 06:02'

👉 What is the hardest thing with Voice community - 08:45'

Enjoy!

Louise

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In this podcast series, I'll be talking to a few community builders to learn more about their journey and hopefully help others grow their own communities.

James is our second panelist. He is the co-founder and CEO of PostHog. 

In this episode, you'll learn:

👉 How, as an open source project, community was part of their DNA since Day 1 - 01:50'

👉 Why Slack is the right platform to go from 0 to 1 - 04:55'

👉 What are developers and product teams looking for in the PostHog community - 06:51'

👉 The biggest mistake they made at the beginning - 08:36'

👉 How do they measure the health of the community - 11:17'

👉 Why community is your moat - 15:25'

Enjoy!

Louise

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In this podcast series, I'll be talking to a few community builders to learn more about their journey and hopefully help others grow their own communities.

Mahyad is our first panelist. He is the co-founder and CEO of SigmaOS.

In this episode, you'll learn:

👉 What was their trigger to build a community - 01:30'

👉 How they recruited their first community members - 04:34'

👉 Their community's architecture - 06:15'

👉 When they recruited their first community manager - 08:50'

👉 The hardest thing about their community - 09:40'

Enjoy!

Louise