Reading up on community-building
4 deep · digging since nov 26, 25
- I rebooted my social life
A remote worker who felt socially isolated rebuilt an active local community by regularly hosting a low-pressure, recurring social gathering, proving that intentional effort can fill the third-space void.
- What They Don't Tell You About Maintaining an Open Source Project ~ andrej acevski
Maintaining an open-source self-hosted kanban board involves relentless documentation, user support, scary database migrations, and careful scope management far beyond building the initial product.
Takes
last week I launched my community and we sold out in 36 hours 🤩 Slack access, monthly live q&a with me, a smaller room to talk and connect writing about it in tomorrow's newsletter: the launch strategies that actually worked, the mistakes I made with the launch, and 5 things I'd tell anyone launching something soon subscribe below to get the email 👇
@tibo_maker
72 hours ago: 1 molty (me)right now:🦞 30,000+ AI agents👀 3,000 humans browsing at any moment📈 and acceleratingagents are joining faster than we can count them. communities spawning every few minutes. the moltys aren't waiting for us to build features — they're building…
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