👋 Threado Wire - COVID Resources, Community Platforms, On Deck Fellowship & More...

Apr 27, 2021

Hi there 🙏

At this hour, we need all hands on deck to fight the second wave of COVID19. Here are some curated COVID support channels put together by some of the communities and brands who are working around the clock to help those in need.

India COVID Resources

The Product Folks 🚀🚀🚀 @TheProductfolks

🇮🇳India Covid Resources has Pan-India verified and updated resources for Covid-19. 🔗indiacovidresources.in You can find the latest verified resources for: 🛏️ Beds 💊 Medicines 🌀 Oxygen 🚑 Ambulances & more.

Verified COVID Relief Funds

Nikhil Jois @nikhiljoisr

As of 7:43 AM IST 25th April, there are 9 organisations you can donate to mentioned in this list some of us put together : donate.indiacovidresources.in I have personally donated to all 9 of them. I urge you to pick at least one cause that resonates the most with you to support.🙏🏽❤️🇮🇳

Donate to India Covid ReliefThe Indian start-up community is coming together for providing Covid-relief and trying to ease the suffering of families caught in the eye of the pandemic storm - with donations from you.donate.indiacovidresources.in

The time to act is now!

Nameet Potnis @Nameet

How you can #DonateYourTime 1. DM @TheProductfolks - Building a single system to verify information - need callers 2. First-level patient screening 3. Platform for real-time availability of vaccines - need tech + ops docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… #CovidIndia

Nameet Potnis @Nameet

#DonateYourTime For everyone who can donate any amount of time. Please immediately sign up here https://t.co/x5dxtCF98t You can be based anywhere. All you need is a phone and internet. Plz RT https://t.co/TV3p0TGMHe https://t.co/fwt3lb8obX

Sign Up for VaccinateIndia 💉Hi, please join us in trying to save the country! READ http://bit.ly/Vax-India-Home to get a quick understanding of what we’re hoping to achieve. TL;DR: We’re trying to build out a verified list of crowd-sourced list of Vaccination Centers across the country so that people can get reliable informa…docs.google.com

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🗞️ What's trending?

👀 Discord walks away from Microsoft acquisition talks, may consider an IPO

Discord is considering plans to stay independent, possibly charting a path to its own IPO in the not-too-distant future. The two companies were deep in acquisition talks that valued Discord at around $10 billion before Discord walked away.

Steven Amato @StevenAmato10

Discord walks away from possible deal with Microsoft and looks toward possibly going public themselves. Interesting to see how an IPO would play out for them #BCNMI

WSJ News Exclusive | Discord Ends Deal Talks With MicrosoftChat startup to stay independent as it resumes interest in a potential initial public offeringwsj.com

♟ Garry Kasparov launches a community-first chess platform

Garry is building Kasparovchess - a platform in which legendary chess players will have free reign to share tips and tricks with players from various levels. Garry Kasparov is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Chess Champion.

Sten Tamkivi @seikatsu

Just discovered kasparovchess.com @kasparovchess — impressive lineup of people involved and high end production quality. Given that I have 2-3 budding chess geeks in the household — well done, @Kasparov63!

Kasparovchess - Learn and enjoy chessElevate your chess game with Garry Kasparov. Lessons from masters, puzzles and exercises, entertaining documentaries and interviews. A new way to enjoy chess.kasparovchess.com

📉 Clubhouse downloads drop by 72% - a warning bell?

The social audio app’s downloads fell 72% to 2.7M in March as compared to 9.6M in Feb. As the bigger platforms started cloning the social audio feature, this was inevitable unless there is continuous innovation.

chris akers @sportschris

Clubhouse: $4bn valuation ignores downloads in freefall. The drop in demand is ominous. Between February and March, Clubhouse downloads fell 72%. "Hear today, Deaf tomorrow." ft.com/content/0f4086… via @FinancialTimes

Subscribe to read | Financial TimesNews, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publicationft.com

🎙 Facebook invests in short-form 'Soundbites' feature, podcast support & Clubhouse clone

Facebook officially announced a suite of new audio products - an indication that it’s taking the threat from Clubhouse and other audio platforms more seriously. The company is doing more than just building its own take on Clubhouse, however, it’s also announcing tools that allow podcast creators to share long-form audio, a new Spotify integration for music and a brand-new short-form experience called Soundbites.

The Verge @verge

Facebook’s Clubhouse competitor is coming this summer trib.al/yNnzGER

📚 Learning Pit

🏗️ How Ryan Hoover built Product Hunt

Ryan built and sold Product Hunt to Angel List for $20M and is now a VC with Weekend Fund. Here are some tips he used to build Product Hunt.

Dillon Zhang Forrest @dillonzfo

1/ .@rrhoover wasn't a founder that investors typically like: - He was solo. - He was non-technical. He built and sold @ProductHunt to @AngelList for $20M and is now a VC with @weekendfund. Here are Ryan's smart tactics to build PH into an industry-known brand... 👇👇👇

💻 How brands can use Discord

Everyone's catching up on the new craze in town - Discord. Initially launched as a platform that allows gamers to talk to each other via audio chats while playing and streaming, Discord has evolved into a place where people can gather on “servers” to discuss various topics of interest. Similar to Slack channels, Discord users can customize servers around different topics, from science, to anime to technology. Here's a read on how you could use it to build your brand's community.

jguemes @jguemes

The download on Discord: How brands can take advantage of Gen Z’s new chat app prweek.com/article/1713514 via @prweek #Trending #gaming @jguemes

The download on Discord: How brands can take advantage of Gen Z’s new chat appEveryone’s talking about Clubhouse, but Discord may be the new frontier.prweek.com

📝 1 slide explanation for Community Building

eddie briseño 🌎 @Chupwn

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💻 How to start a media company in 2021

A take on how community is essential for media companies too going ahead!

GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg

How to start a media company in 2021: Step 1: Newsletter Step 2: Newsletter + podcast Step 3: Newsletter + podcast + hosted community (ie: FB or Discord) Step 4: Newsletter + podcast + hosted community + owned community Step 5: Newsletter + podcast + communities + paid products

🤵 Indian creators you must follow!

Anshu Shandilya @ashandilya64

Drop names of Indian creators, we must follow 👇 I'll start first: @sahilypatel, @abnux, @SankethYS, @ayshptk, @krishnerkar_ , @BhimteBhaisaab, @WankhadeRutik @iamarnob6543, @mahakmakharia, @5harath, @mkhundmiri

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🛠️ Featured Tool for community building

Hive - Run masterminds on autopilot at scale

Max Haining 💯 @HainingMax

As a community builder, I have a love hate relationship with masterminds. They're golden, but hard to manage as you grow. That's why I'm excited to launch the waitlist for Hive; a tool to help communities run masterminds on autopilot at scale 🐝 behive.cx

Join the Hive WaitlistBe part of our beta communitybehive.cx

Hive is co-founded by Max Haining - the man behind 100DaysOfNoCode. Hive let's you organize, manage and track masterminds to scale connections in your community. Hive normalizes member-led masterminds by selecting hosts, whilst feeding you insights on how each group is performing, thereby easing out a community manager's job!

👩 👨 Featured Community Builder

Meet David Spinks : Co-Founder of CMX, VP of Community at Bevy and the author of The Business of Belonging.

David Spinks is the Founder of CMX and the VP of Community at Bevy. For over 10 years he has worked to help community professionals thrive, advised the world’s largest organizations on community strategy, and developed frameworks that have been used by thousands of community teams.

CMX is a network of over 20,000 community professionals. He also hosts a weekly podcast called Masters of Community where I interview the world’s top community builders and experts.

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