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However, each of these flips into a network as people are able to add to the listings with their own photos, notes, and other forms of user-generated content.
Andrew Chen • The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
Leonard Morton on Substack
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Andrew Chen • What today’s social apps can learn from Web 2.0, the social network revolution from 15 years ago at andrewchen
A Compulsive Search for the Most Interesting People with Patrick O'Shaughnessy - Compound Manual
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One notable example of this is the ever present “People You May Know” or “Friend suggestions” feature. Every social platform at scale has some kind of implementation of it for a reason: it works incredibly well.
Andrew Chen • The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
Member directory – Typically, Slack or Discord communities have an #Intros channel for members to introduce themselves. But these posts are ordered chronologically, and the volume of posts rapidly becomes overwhelming as communities grow. A turnkey directory product that aggregates and showcases member information and interests in a centralized pla... See more
Li Jin • Community leaders deserve better: An open letter about community software
Since community members joined slowly and stuck around, there was a lot of trust and shared context in the group. Every community had a different way of working, so there was a fair amount of friction preventing users from jumping around or “surfing” from project to project.