There are loads of good Discord groups, reddits threads, Slack channels and even Rock groups where you can connect with builders, would definitely recommend looking into more resources in that front!
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@nicolaas_spijker great suggestions. How did you build that discord group list? would love to learn more!
@jaidayang I have used https://disboard.org in the past, communities range in quality but once you join a few good ones it opens up a pathway to finding the most active/valuable ones .
My suggestion to finding the high value communities once you join one of these groups: open a 1:1 with the most active users of the new communities and ask them for their thoughts on communities in your niche, very often they can extend an invite as well.
Besides that I have a few other routes I have taken to find communities on Discord and other places, feel free to connect with me through the links on my profile :).
@malenaohl Interesting! Did you partner with other brands or professionals? Thanks!
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Kelly Team Click One, (Product Hunt)
Or you can ask "Team Click One", Right here at product hunt, they are the only people I have ever heard of, that cover 211 platforms besides Facebook, Instagram, twitter, LinkedIn. they also cover platforms like Mastodon, Mind, Plurk, Tumblr, MeWe, Triller, and the list just keeps going. The business is actually owned by quadruplets of brothers they don't advertise whatsoever here on product hunt.
but their specialty is getting whatever you got in front masses of people. It's unheard of the amount of reach they have. they are also in 124 countries. There you go. you would have to contact them, away from Product Hunt platform. The brothers highly respect all online businesses.
They have amazing packages, at amazing prices. I can say this, with the utmost competence they are not here to dig in people's pockets. They're here to help those who need it.
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Very well said Kelly, And I agree with you 100% they are the best at what they do. To be truthful I don't know what the brothers will say, I know you are just being informative, and trying to help. Kelly but brothers have a very strict policy, they live and die by this policy. I don't think that they will be upset or anything. But I can't be for sure because I don't know, I can only tell you what I know, not what I think I know. I love you girl and I highly appreciate you introducing me to Click One to Get it. I have had my online business for two years now, and this is the first year, that I have made profits from my business. if it wasn't for you Kelly and the information you gave me, I know that I would be closing my business this year if it wasn't for you. I love you.
I'm actually curious about this also! I've mainly just used existing twitter audience but would love to hear what others have used to make a truly self sufficient beta hype machine similar to Clubhouse, Arc etc ๐
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@aaronoleary yes I have seen some stories about Twitter, Indiehackers and subreddits for beta users.
That's a great question. As a person who had to go through the process of finding early beta testers for his project, I can say that it's not easy. I've used Twitter and Quora in the past, as well as Reddit. If you can get people interested in your product before they have to become beta testers, they are more likely to agree with you.
For me it's always been a case of locking down and DM'ing key targets from Instagram and Twitter. You will end up in the "Requests" folders mostly but people do check and if they see they normally respond!
Keep the messages, personal but to the point.
Aim for 50 people.
"Hey Jude! Loved the work you did / content you created here!
We've worked super hard on a new app and really think you would find it useful!
Your thoughts however big or small would mean the world to us!"
Something like this usually works well! (Really do try and customise every message though as tempting as it is to copy paste)
Be incredibly grateful if they follow through of course and always ask if there's anything you can do for them.
Offering entry into a basic competition to win Amazon vouchers has also helped.
Put some good tunes on for a few hours and get Dming!
Good luck!
For wonderful interested people, have a Google form ready and always ask if they could share to anyone they know that might be interested.
Every person is a new door!
And major discount for life on the product. These people are enormously valuable in the early stages.
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@leojbarnett awesome bro, thanks for your valuable suggestions ๐
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Building Betalaunchpad.com for that. Excepting it to go live in a month.
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