Identify where does your community connect today?

Once you have identified your community's pain points, get to know where does your community connect with each other today? Where do they hangout in general and what do they do when they are seeking specific answers related to their needs or pain points?

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Here's why is this is super important:

1. Helps you understand how the community needs are being met or more importantly, not being met today.

"I was spending a lot of time browsing Hacker News looking for stories that could serve as inspiration and education for how I could build my own online business and that's not really the use case that Hacker News was designed for." - Courtland Allen, Indiehackers

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2. If your people are connecting with and helping each other in some or the other form, it validates the need for your community to exist.

"Even if a community for a topic already exists, you can always bring a new angle. Find that angle by building the community that you wish existed for yourself." -David Spinks

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3. This is a great way to connect with your initial members especially when you are in your 0 to 1 journey. Go where your members are, engage in the discussions, add value and speak to your potential members 1:1 to get to know them.

Where does your community connect with each other today? Where do they hang out in general and what do they do when they are seeking specific answers related to their needs or pain points?

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🛠️ Resources:

The Ultimate Guide to Unbundling Reddit - how to create a product (or community) that serves the unmet needs of an individual subreddit.

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