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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 myBB to real-time systems like Discourse and NodeBB, we have picked the top open-source community...

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 active member is > 1000 sign-ups.In this guide, I’ve shared my proven 3-step community-building strategy...

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 queries to shape our product roadmap.We used Canny to collect feedback from customers. The problem?...

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 and practices for successful moderation. What is Community Moderation?Community moderation is the practice of managing...

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 of building communities and firmly believe that every online business should build a community around...

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 a funded, high-growth startup. You know our best-performing growth hack? You guessed it: it was...

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 self-hosted communities and also fully-managed communities. In this article, I’ll make the choice easy for...

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 make announcements and share product updates. Very few realise that a brand’s social media following...

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. Over time, it got popularity as Pareto’s 80/20 Principle; applying to businesses, productivity and even...

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 explored the true potential of an online community built around their business. Did you know...

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 they got there. Growing a Discord community is extremely hard. In this article, I’ll share...

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 popular among gamers for real-time chat. Both Slack and Discord offer similar feature set and...

It’s important to be aware of the negative aspects of building an online community. In this article, I will share some of the challenges that I have faced while building online communities at CrazyEngineers and for some of the startups I worked with. I’d like...

I am writing this article to position Jatra as an alternative to Scenes community software by Graphy - an Unacademy owned company. If existing customers of Scenes (aka Build On Scenes) are looking to migrate their existing communities to Jatra platform, we’ll be happy to...