CMX
cmxhub.com · Group blog · on HN since 2014
CMX is a publication about building and growing online communities, with case studies from startups such as Product Hunt and 7 Cups of Tea.
What HN saysHN commenters point to it as a good source of information on community building, though comments don't give detailed opinions on individual posts.
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- 17 tools Product Hunt used to build its community2 people · 4 points · first shared 2014 · 1 comments on HN
- 2How 7 Cups of Tea (YC S13) Accidentally Grew a Community of 17,000 Listeners1 people · 92 points · first shared 2014 · 34 comments on HN
- 3A look at Assembly, the community that founds companies1 people · 64 points · first shared 2014 · 16 comments on HN
- 4What I Learned about Community from Sending 300+ Emails Manually1 people · 27 points · first shared 2015 · 6 comments on HN
- 5Is Community the Newest Pillar in the Venture Capital Business Model?1 people · 23 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 6How ProductHunt (YC S14) grew its community from 40k users to 400k in 4 months1 people · 12 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 7The 10 Unscalable Tactics Quibb Used to Build Its Early Community1 people · 6 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 8Three Signals that Indicate Your Community-based product has what it takes1 people · 3 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 9A list of tips, tools, and examples to support your transition to virtual events1 people · 2 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 10The 7P's of Community1 people · 2 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 11The Spaces Model: The Framework for Defining Your Community’s Business Value1 people · 2 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 12The Simple Model That Has Made Product Hunt Incredibly Addictive for Thousands1 people · 1 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 13The 7 (Mostly Free) Tools Product Hunt Used to Build their Early-Stage Community1 people · 1 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 14Trello Playbook for Launching a Slack Community1 people · 1 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 15Product hunt erik torenberg community1 people · first shared 2017
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KanyeBest · 2017-06-30
Platzi has a series of videos on this topic.
https://courses.platzi.com/classes/build-grow-online-communities/
Edit: Apparently it's no longer free. The course isn't really worth $100 in my opinion, so here's a short writeup of the videos http://cmxhub.com/article/product-hunt-erik-torenberg-community/
murrain · 2015-10-01
There's a lot of good information about community at CMX Hub: http://cmxhub.com/
mary_grace · 2019-04-25
Like panda888888 said, DevRel in an ideal world is less about metrics and more about listening and building relationships with your community, but as we all know, metrics are still necessary to prove business value and to keep the team alive within a company.
I wrote a whole book about how to determine and show the business value of DevRel at your particular company (http://persea-consulting.com/book) but there are two main points I'll highlight here:
1) When reporting success to stakeholders at your company, focus less on the work output (how many conferences did you speak at, blogposts did you write, etc.) and more on the goals that those tasks pushed forward. What's the purpose of the blogposts? Are you trying to improve your audience's onboarding experience by writing tutorials or sample applications to help them understand various uses of your product? Are you speaking at conferences for brand awareness purposes or to popularize the key principles that your product is built upon? Focus on those topics instead of "I did `x`." For instance, focus on how many fewer support tickets were decreased as a result of your tutorial or improved documentation.
2) Make sure that your goals are aligned with the company goals. Your team mission should point back to the overarching company goals in a way that it's clear the work that you're doing will further the goals of the company. (Note: If you don't have a team mission, you should! I wrote an article about that here:…