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D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85
Q Oh, wow. Okay, that's great. Okay, let's fast forward to IndieHackers. When do you, when do you meet, how does the Cortland, Rosie, Sherry, how does that marriage happen?
A Uh, well, funnily enough, I did, uh, when Cortland launched IndieHackers, it was like the early days, um, he was doing the text-based interviews. Um, and I, I did one of the first, I think I was like number 17 or something I did, um, for the interviews, um, for Ministry of Testing. So I kind of opened myself up to like the money that I was making at Ministry of Testing and how it was working. Um, so that was like our first kind of introduction. Um, and then, like, as I was starting to step back from Ministry of Testing, I was looking for things to do, and I wasn't quite sure what I wanted to do, and I kept dropping into IndieHackers, because, you know, I like, you know, I like communities, I like, I liked what they were doing, um, and I saw he was looking for a bit of help. It was originally, like, Twitter help, and I was like, oh, I can do that. I did that for Ministry of Testing. I did all the marketing And growth kind of stuff in the industry of testing. So I just reached out to him and said that, you know, I would be up for that. Um, for me, I saw it like as a learning opportunity to see how IndieHackers was run and how they manage stuff. So I thought, you know, if I want to hang out there, then I might as well get paid to hang out there.
AI assessment note: “I did one of the first... So that was like our first kind of introduction.”
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D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q And what's the key to this? I mean, when you are going out in your building and you're looking for your first sort of hundred folks to put in this community, how did you get the first hundred at Ministry of Testing?
A Uh, mostly it was down to people that I kind of knew. Um, so I was a test of myself. I knew a few people. A few people knew of me. I had been, had, you know, a few friends. I had a blog at the time. Um, so, you know, it wasn't hard to get those first few hundred. Um, and, you know, I think, I think, you know, that's, that's probably the key is that the key to any community is that you have to care about what you're building community about. If you don't, you know, if you, if you're doing it just like as a business or just, you know, focused on like metrics or growth, it becomes much harder to kind of show, um, that, that much needed human aspect that communities need. Um, so just by, you know, showing up and showing that you understand what, what people struggle with, you know, what you're talking about and I think, Makes it easier to come on board.
AI assessment note: “mostly it was down to people that I kind of knew.”
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D 4 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.30
Q listening to this, wondering that just the blocking and tackling of launching a community, you know, one of the articles you just promoted on IndieHackers was Daniel Vassalo's story. It looks like he launched his profit and loss newsletter using Circle.so. Do you like Circle.so as just like the software to run a community on, or do you prefer people build it inside of Slack or Facebook groups, et cetera?
A Um, I think it depends. I think, I think the problem is, Uh, people think about the tools first, and then the community second. Um, and I'm, I'm trying to encourage people to, to not think about the tools first, because, I mean, we get the questions all the time. Anywhere you go, you say, what tools should I, you know, people are always asking, what tools should I use to build the community? And so you can't answer that question until you get to know who your community are. You need to, like, understand what they're interested in. You need to know where they hang out. You need to know what, what tools they use. Use generally day to day. Um, so for some people, like, Slack's a perfect tool, and there's some really great Slack communities out there.
AI assessment note: “you can't answer that question until you get to know who your community are.”
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D 4 · C 4 · P 3 · Cm 3 3.60
Q What was the first thing you did once you joined IndieHackers to start looking at driving more engagement, more growth?
A Um, yeah, so when I joined, I ended up joining as, as like a community manager, um, even though like Cortland wasn't like hiring for that specific role, that's kind of how I joined. Um, and I think like the most important thing as a community person is, is to kind of, what I call study your people and get to know your people. So rather than like jump in and, you know, try to do exciting things, it's like, you know, hang out with them, um, See what they're talking about, you know, have discussions with them, um, and then, and then try to, I guess, like, work with Cortland and make decisions on, on what are good things to do right now. Um, everything I've done has, has been very kind of, like, practical and hands-on, um, and very, just like, let's, let's see what we can do right now to improve things, and, You know, help us go in the right direction to where we need to go.
AI assessment note: “what I call study your people and get to know your people”
