How to build a community for your SaaS?
Vincent Chinc
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Everyone says building a community that supports your SaaS journey is important. They help you spread the word, support you in your launches on Product hunt and similar platforms, and give you feedback on new features you add to your product . Which are all the great things you would want for your product to happen.
But how do you actually get started?
What piece of advice would you give to your younger self if you had to do it all over?
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Richard Gao@richard_gao2
I'm building a community for my SaaS right now, and I'm mostly just being active on producthunt before my launch so more people see it when it goes live a la following me.
If I had to speak to my younger self, I would have told him to be more active on twitter to build up a following, since I'm essentially starting from 0 on that front (though there's always benefits to using less social media).
I would also tell him to get the demo website up earlier to collect emails.
For the record, you can check out my twitter in my bio for what I'm building and how I'm building it up from scratch. It's a slow process, but luckily, with the type of tweets I'm posting I think they'll be more receptive to a product hunt launch than a standard group of followers anyways.
How are you building a community?
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@richard_gao2 Great comment. I am going through the same process since I am also starting from 0. And indeed, if wish I was more socially active and started to share about my project 6 years ago. I probably may already have grown a healthy audience around the product. Best of luck!
@jack95 Thanks! I think you should list your twitter in your bio as well, one important method to growth is just making your account more accessible by having it everywhere.
Also, the website link in bio doens't work. It just links to a login page.
Dunno if it's intentional, but wanted to let you know.
Good luck on your endeavors!
A community of users can be built before developing a product. Such a community can help to shape and even define your product. There should be some values for the people joining your early community. It can be an existing community that you join them.