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Learn how to build thriving online communities that grow automatically and produce the highest RoI

Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh-katdare • Apr 26, 2025

Apr 26, 2025

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Community Onboarding: The Ultimate Guide to Welcoming New Members

Community onboarding is the secret sauce behind thriving communities. It’s the first experience that will decide whether your users stay or quietly leave. Poor onboarding can confuse or overwhelm users,...

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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh-katdare • Apr 23, 2025

Apr 23, 2025

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The Ultimate Community Audit Guide: Evaluate and Improve Your Community

TL;DR: A community audit evaluates your community’s health, engagement and growth opportunities. It gives you clear insights, identifies strengths and weaknesses, and provides a roadmap for improvement. Building a vibrant...

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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh • Apr 20, 2025

Apr 20, 2025

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SEO for Online Communities: Ultimate Guide to Organic Growth

I am a big fan of open communities - the ones that expose content to search engines and users without requiring a login.When you nail SEO - your online community...

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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh-katdare • Apr 20, 2025

Apr 20, 2025

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Minimum Viable Community: Build Small, Scale Big

TL;DR: A Minimum Viable Community (MVC) is the smallest group of engaged members you need to test and grow your community idea. This article explains what an MVC is, why...

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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh-katdare • Apr 17, 2025

Apr 17, 2025

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A List of Open Source Community Platforms

Open-source community platforms have ruled the Internet for decades. Open source allowed the makers offer full code access, zero licensing fees and vibrant developer communities.From veteran boards like phpBB and...

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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh • Apr 17, 2025

Apr 17, 2025

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WhatsApp Community Growth and Engagement Guide

In this guide, you will learn the proven techniques to grow your WhatsApp community and boost engagement. As someone who has been building online communities for over 20 years; I...

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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh • Apr 17, 2025

Apr 17, 2025

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Guide: Get First 100 Community Members Quickly

In my career, I’ve built several communities. The hardest part of building a community is getting its first 100 members.Let’s not confuse ‘members’ with 'sign-ups’. In the community world, 1...

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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh • Apr 15, 2025

Apr 15, 2025

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Jatra - An Upvoty Alternative Integrated with Community

Prior to founding the Jatra Community Platform, I served as the Head of Growth at a hyper-growth SaaS startup. Our product teams relied on user feedback, feature requests and customer...

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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh • Apr 13, 2025

Apr 13, 2025

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21 Top Skills for Community Building and Engagement

In this article, I will share a list of 21 must have skills for any professional community builder.Now, even with almost 20 years of community building experience, I don’t claim...

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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh-katdare • Apr 13, 2025

Apr 13, 2025

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Ultimate Guide to Online Community Moderation: Best Practices, Tools and Strategies

Online communities have become vital hubs for interaction, knowledge sharing and brand engagement. Effective community moderation ensures these spaces remain safe, engaging and productive. This guide covers key strategies, tools...

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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh • Apr 11, 2025

Apr 11, 2025

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The Ultimate Guide to Community Engagement and Retention in 2025

In this guide, you will learn some of the most advanced and time-tested strategies and activities to boost community engagement and retention. The world of communities has evolved a lot...

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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh • Apr 11, 2025

Apr 11, 2025

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Closed Vs. Open Community: Let's Settle the Debate

There are two main types of communities: Open and Closed. This article will help you decide whether your community should be open (public) or closed (private).I am a strong advocate...

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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh • Apr 9, 2025

Apr 9, 2025

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Community-Led Growth : The Easy Way

In this article, we’ll talk about community-led growth and discuss an easy way to implement it for your business.Prior to founding the Jatra Community Platform, I led growth marketing at...

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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh • Mar 26, 2025

Mar 26, 2025

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Self-Hosted Vs. Fully Managed Community Platform - What Should You Pick?

When starting a new community, you’ll have to choose between a self-hosted and a fully-managed community platform.In my career spanning 20 years as an entrepreneur and community builder, I’ve managed...

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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh • Mar 25, 2025

Mar 25, 2025

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[Steps] Build Organic Online Community for Brand

Most entrepreneurs, markets and community builders believe that their social media following is their “brand community”. The truth is social media is just a broadcast channel for most brands to...

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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh • Mar 7, 2025

Mar 7, 2025

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Pareto's Principle Applies to Community Building

Vilfredo Pareto, an Italian economist, observed that 80% of Italy’s land was owned by 20% of the population.This led to Pareto’s Principle: 80% of results come from 20% of efforts....

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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh • Feb 15, 2025

Feb 15, 2025

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Why Build an Online Community: Advantages and Disadvantages

What excites me about building the Jatra Community Platform is the possibilities it unlocks for businesses. Most of the entrepreneurs are aware of only the ‘user-engagement’ aspect and have not...

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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh • Feb 12, 2025

Feb 12, 2025

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Jatra - A Powerful Discourse Alternative for Communities

It’s been 20 years since I started managing online communities.Back in 2005, I created my first community on phpBB - a popular platform at the time. Over the next two...

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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh • Jan 9, 2025

Jan 9, 2025

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Growing Discord Server : The Hard Problem (and Solution)

Relax! You are not the only one finding it difficult to grow your community on Discord servers. You probably have seen active Discord servers with 200,000+ members and wondering how...

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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh • Dec 17, 2024

Dec 17, 2024

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Slack Or Discord - The Uneasy Choice You'll Make

Slack and Discord are the two top team collaboration platforms, popular for two entirely different use-cases. Slack is popular among startups for communication among the team members and Discord is...

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