Our community has crossed a 150K members, what now 👀?
Bhupesh Varshney
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Heya everyone 👋🏽
This is Bhupesh, Community Manager at r/developersIndia (probably India's largest online tech community).
Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/developersIndia/
Wanted to know from all community builders out there, who have successfully built/moderated tech communities out there, what do you advise on doing next?
PS: We are already trying to set up multiple projects, we recently launched a job board, we have an official wiki.
One thing we have seen while moderating a community that It's hard to motivate the right folks to help in building the community with us, what can be done to make it more approachable?
Thanks a lot in advance :)
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Shubham Pratap Singh@shubham_pratap
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Congratulations @bhupesh_varshney , curious to know how much time it takes to reach 150k + members?
When did you started?
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@shubham_pratap Hey thanks
So the subreddit was created early 2020, about the time me and 2 of my other friends graduated from our college, back then we realized there was no active representation of Indian techies in the Reddit community (for some reason we had a bad stand)
In terms of growth, I think we got lucky due to the pandemic :). A lot of folks vibed with what we wanted to represent, and still do.
There si no one size fits all here. Different people get motivated by different things. So, with a 150k community size, you would have to do many different things. And all of them together will motivate only a small percentage of your audience. That is the way communities are!
That said, what all can you do? Take a look at what hacker rank and codility do. Can you roll out similar things, which will help the community show off skills or capabilties like a badge system? Can the badges then be leveraged for community cred? etc.
Have done some work in the past in this space. Happy to discuss offline
1. Convert those members onto your newsletter, talk about the same topics in details
2. Sell guest post to companies that will add value to your members ($1,500 - $3000) per newsletter
3. Reach out to tech companies already advertising for jobs and charge them to list on your job board ($500-$1000) per post
4. Sell Merch
5. Set up masterclasses and charge for those
There is alot of things you can do with that community.
Test, test, test, test see what works
todohub