Forem: Alexander Buzin

How to build a community for Side Project?

Alexander Buzin — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 23:27:20 +0000

One of the most proven and working ideas of how can a side project grow traffic is to build a project community.

A community can be built on top of platforms like Discord, Twitter, or Projectium and should be a group of people sharing ideas that will make the project grow & develop (feedback, insights, opinion).

The best way to grow it is to scale it group-by-group:

“Friends & Followers” - 40–100 members
“Target users & Early adopters” - 100–600 members
“Thematic audience” - 600–4000 members

…and a few other groups that can scale your community to 25K members.

Same but in details read here.

In order to reach out to people you have to:

Pack your idea (elevator pitch / oneliner)
Define key values
Define your target audience
Reach out to people using websites like Reddit, IndieHackers, Projectium, or Twitter.

Building a community is very hard, but it will give you active users & retention. That’s why you should invest time into learning more about how project can build a community and start growing it as soon as possible.

From author: A few your years ago I had my own Side Project - A 3D Engine framework and I invested a lot of time to get noticed by other developers. A year later, with 5.5K stars on this project I decided to write a note and share some thoughts that can help.

Let’s say you’ve decided to start a startup in 2021

Alexander Buzin — Sat, 17 Jul 2021 20:52:24 +0000

If you have just decided to begin your first startup journey — then you probably know nothing about startups. But no worries, the good thing about startups is that you will learn a lot. 82% of early-stage founders say they have to operate in areas they had almost no experience in before. For example, if you are a [former] Software Engineer (which is very common for early Tech startups), you are going to be involved in the design, marketing, management, sales, and even finance processes.

Discord community for Open Source founders

Alexander Buzin — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 23:23:55 +0000

Hey, Dev community!

A lot of open source developers are looking for contributors to help their projects grow & succeed. I know that because I was one of them, an owner of a repository with 5500+ stars on a Github, but that was a long path. I've met other open source developers with their young projects that are focused on solving your problems.

That's what our mission is - to help young projects receive feedback, find contributors & get mentorship.

If you feel like you have something to share, or just want to become a part of our community to follow recent updates - welcome! Join us: https://discord.gg/nh33HqubJM

Now we have a growing community of 300+ open source founders & technical experts, would love to see you with us

We made a place to promote github projects & find contributors

Alexander Buzin — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 17:06:32 +0000

3 Years ago I questioned myself - "I have a cool Github project (it was a 3D graphics lib). How can I promote it & find collaborators?".

The thing is - Github is so nice, but it it's hard to find contributors there until you spend a lot of time. So I did.

Recently my group of friends from Github asked me if I want to participate in development of a HUGE project for making Product community yet a bit more social & interactive (I mean those cool visualizations)

Right now we already have a rough MVP - Projectium that is growing fast, but we need your projects to test it & improve UX. Not everyone will probably find it interesting - but if you have a project, it is worth checking it out