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Re: Ask HN: How do you create a successful community from zero?

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Post by brikmaster »

We started ScoreStream from zero to last month where we hit 2.5 million uniques. I would echo a number of things that others have said but the key things for us were:

1. Doing things that don't scale. We have a community of fans following local scores and we wanted to get people to crowdsource scores. Initially that meant us seeding the community and then finding ways to onboard folks to scoring games. 2. There was an existing community of people who cared about local sports and with the death of newspapers we thought there was a chance to get them to crowdsource and share the information with others. 3. We made a lot of tools that created incentives for folks to score games and share that information with others. 4. We did a lot of partnerships with potential consumers of the score data which made an incentive for folks to share scores to highlight their teams.

Ultimately one thing that we thought that would motivate people was money, fame and narcissism and since we didn't have a lot of money we focused on the other two.

It's been fun seeing it grow and there are a ton of other good thoughts from others in this post. Thanks for posting...great to see others experience.

Re: Ask HN: How do you create a successful community from zero?

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Post by lucb1e »

brikmaster wrote: post #91

We started ScoreStream from zero to last month where we hit 2.5 million uniques. I would echo a number of things that others have said but the key things for us were: 1. Doing things that don't scale. We have a community of fans following local scores and we wanted to get people to crowdsource scores. Initially that meant us seeding the community and then finding ways to onboard folks to scoring games. 2. There was a…

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Re: Ask HN: How do you create a successful community from zero?

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Post by brikmaster »

lucb1e wrote: post #92
brikmaster wrote: post #91

We started ScoreStream from zero to last month where we hit 2.5 million uniques. I would echo a number of things that others have said but the key things for us were: 1. Doing things that don't scale. We have a community of fans following local scores and we wanted to get people to crowdsource scores. Initially that meant us seeding the community and then finding ways to onboard folks to scoring games. 2. There was a…

Note that single newlines make your text into a wall of text, you need a blank line in between two paragraphs or items.

Ack - thanks...I don't post often...

Re: Ask HN: How do you create a successful community from zero?

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Post by mvkel »

I‘ve been working on community event software for a decade now.

Here are the consistent elements I’ve seen across virtually any kind of community that’s starting out.

1) a community begins when two people who are passionate about a purpose meet together. They don’t need to be captains of industry, or politicians. They just need to be passionate about some unifying thing.

2) The “Big Bang” moment for a community is its first event. The best way for these types of people to meet is by attending events (virtual or in person). Events are human connections at scale.

Re: Ask HN: How do you create a successful community from zero?

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Post by kirubakaran »

Alex3917 wrote: post #36
viraptor wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Disputed but https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10535620

Haha here is the link to the original email thread with pg asking me to do this: https://www.prettyfwd.com/t/a_SBCPYeTLGxeP37RRTpmw/ The last time this came up I couldn't share the email thread because PrettyFWD didn't yet exist.

pg's real prank was getting you to believe that he's not nickb.

Re: Ask HN: How do you create a successful community from zero?

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Post by kirubakaran »

viraptor wrote: post #23
derwiki wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

nickb thing?

Disputed but https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10535620

Considering how prolific nickb was, it was probably a group of people. The name was a bit of a giveaway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki
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