👋 Threado Wire - Exciting launches announced this week! 🚀

May 18, 2021

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🐦 If you missed this last week, here's everything you need to know about community building 👇

Pramod Rao @prao24

50+ Community Tweets and Threads of the Best Learnings Around Community Building. Link to the Wall of Tweets at the end. Here's a thread on the best ones. 🧵..

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🗞️ What's trending?

👥 Substack acquires community consulting startup People & Company

Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie said that the company had previously used the People & Co. team to consult on their fellowship and mentorship programs and that members of the team would now be working on a variety of new efforts, from scaling programs to help writers with legal support and health insurance to community-guided projects like workshops and meetups to help crowdsource insights.

Kevin Huynh @kevinhuynh

🙂 Today I get to share that People & Company was acquired by Substack. More about it, in our own words. gettogether.substack.com/p/people-and-c… Proud proud proud of @hi_kaielmer @baileyelaine @oconnell_ko

People & Company is joining the Substack team 🔥Today we are proud to share the big news. Here’s how we made the decision.gettogether.substack.com

🎙️ Discord's new Stage Discovery portal will connect live audio event with communities

The company launched Stage Channels, its own Clubhouse-like voice event rooms, in late March. With those building blocks in place, in June Discord will start surfacing events (think open mic nights, book clubs, etc.) through a new portal called Stage Discovery, adding a way for anybody to connect with the cool communities in the process.

Product Hunt 😸 @ProductHunt

You'll soon be able to discover live Stage Channels on Discord through their new Stage Discovery feature. Slated for June, this will allow easier discoverability of live audio rooms. Something that isn't quite as easy on apps like Twitter Spaces & Clubhouse (for now).

🎂 Discord celebrates turning 6 with new logo, new colours and a refreshed look

Discord @discord

hey we're updating our brand look. improved logo, font, colors. not too different: just a little friendlier. Discord has become a place where people come to explore, grow, and belong. so we're updating our look to be just as welcoming: dis.gd/ournewlook

💻 Notion's API is now in public beta.

Notion API @NotionAPI

🏗️ The wait is over! Notion's API is now in public beta. → Retrieve, query & list databases → Create & retrieve pages, and update properties → Search pages & databases → Retrieve & append block children Get started at developers.notion.com. developers.notion.com

Notion APIConnect Notion pages and databases to the tools you use every day, creating powerful workflows.developers.notion.com

📹 Geneva - Your new communication app for communities!

Li Jin's Atelier Ventures officially launched Geneva yesterday - a communication app for groups, clubs & communities of all sizes. Create rooms and chat, post, talk, video call, stream and more..

Li Jin @ljin18

Here's your answer to the age-old "Where should my group live?" debate. I am excited to share the official public launch of @geneva, a new communication app for groups, clubs, and communities of all shapes and sizes! (@AtelierVentures is an investor)

Geneva - An all-in-one communication app for groups & communities | Product HuntGeneva is an all-in-one communication app for groups, clubs, and communities. Chat, post, hangout, livestream, plan, and more — it’s everything your group needs to stay connected, all in one place. The app is free to use and live on iPhone, Android, & Web.producthunt.com

📚 Learning Pit

💬 Free-chat friendly community-chat alternatives

As Big Tech companies have continued to mass censor public social media platforms and used their algorithms to manipulate the posts that users see, the popularity of community chat apps has soared. These alternatives provide many of the same community chat features as Discord without the censorship. Many also use privacy-preserving technology that ensures that only you and the people you’re chatting with can see the conversations.

Uncensored News @GNDNewsletter

Discord is now starting to restrict traffic. Here are the alternatives. As for me, Mastodon is my choice. By @RecIaimTheNet GreenMaps.US/free-speech reclaimthenet.org/free-speech-fr… via:

👥 The newest job role you’ve probably never heard of: “Community Designers” (CDs)

GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg

The newest job role you’ve probably never heard of: “Community Designers” (CDs) This isn’t UX. This isn’t community management. This is something brand new. If you want a top community, you need to design a top community experience THREAD: Community Designers unlock potential:

🗨️ AMA on community building, startups, founder-mindset, no-code, and more with Sharath (Founder, Shoutout.so)

Sharath 📣 @5harath

I’m free for the next 1hr; let's talk about community building, startups, founder-mindset, no-code, and more👇🏼 AMA GO 👊🏼

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👩 👨 Featured Community Builder

Meet Erik Torenberg - Co-founder, Village Global | Founder, On Deck | Previously - Founding Team Product Hunt

Erik's Village Global is an early stage venture capital firm backed by some of the world's most successful entrepreneurs. They have invested in a multitude of startups, globally.

On the other hand, his other company - On Deck, "is building Stanford for the Internet". It's where the world's top talent comes to connect.

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🔦 Spotlight on a CBC (Cohort-Based-Course)

Sahil Lavingia (Founder, Gumroad) - The Minimalist Entrepreneur

Sahil's "The Minimalist Entrepreneur" is a four-week cohort-based course for founders who want to learn to do more with less. He'll cover his approach to starting a business from scratch, as well as scaling it to your definition of success. Plus, once you get there, how to own it such that it doesn't own you.

You can join the waitlist here.

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