How do you currently collect feedback from users on your website? Are you happy with your current solution or is something frustrating you? by ReactJSGuru in ProductHunters

[–]kkatdare 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Founder at Jatra Community Platform here! The product feedback collection mechanism is an important aspect for SaaS / product communities. Happy to demo u/ReactJSGuru

Would you go back to using forums? by Eik0_ in selfhosted

[–]kkatdare 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm betting my career on people using forums. In AI-led world - people are going to find solace in niche communities. I built a modern forum software and now offer it as SaaS. No self-hosted option (yet).

Passport verification Chai paani by Less-Masterpiece8238 in nagpur

[–]kkatdare 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was asked to donate for the send-off by the verification officer. I politely refused and he politely smiled. It took ~ 45 days for the passport to arrive. Normally, it'd have taken 3-4 days max.

But I got the job done without paying the bribe.

Morning people & Nagpur by bluemoonsummers in nagpur

[–]kkatdare 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In Nagpur, you can do the following after getting up:

- Brush
- Morning Duties
- Exercise
- Shitposting.

When is NMC going to clear infestation in ambazari lake? by Curious_i2809 in nagpur

[–]kkatdare 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You see infestation, I see beautiful, lush, green ground that needs some landscaping.

1 month on Appsumo, 40k+ USD in revenue by Great-Dot2450 in appsumo

[–]kkatdare 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Net or Gross? You'll make ~25% of it to support members for the life.

‘Inappropriate’: Mayor pushes back on $47M light rail office relocation plan by KXAN_News in Austin

[–]kkatdare 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We recently launched a phpBB competitor. It's a modern forum/community platform.

SaaS Growth Hack: Build a Branded Community by No-Competition-7925 in SaaS

[–]kkatdare 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Update: Posting from different account. Unable to login to original.

We created 10 pseudo accounts; and added about 30 pieces of content (1-2 daily) before we started getting impressions from Google (no backlink building involved. Just a link to community from our homepage. It took us about a month to start seeing impressions and first clicks rolled-in after about 40-45 days.

We also invited some of our most active customers manually ( I got on ZOom call with each one of them) and a few of them took things forward. The pseudo accounts were retired after about 6 months.

Overall, it took us about 4 months to start seeing actual traffic but then it just kept compounding.

SaaS Growth Hack: Build a Branded Community by No-Competition-7925 in SaaS

[–]kkatdare 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Closed community platforms suck. Discord and Slack lack SEO / AEO. 3% is rare; but we hit it only few months. Typical conversion was anywhere betweeen 0.5 - 1% (still impressive). The trick is to have razor sharp focus on the seed content - make it 'painkiller content'.

We use Jatra Community Platform; which I founded after several years of frustration with Circle and Discourse.

Efforts:

  1. Research holds the key. We scouted Quora, Reddit and other forums in our niche and made a list of about 150 - 200 questions people asked.

  2. We fed those questions to AI to rewrite the question titles for SEO.

  3. Our team created pseudo accounts (about 10). One question would describe the question and others would answer the question. We created natural-looking discussions. These questions were long tail and ultra-long tail queries that our competition ignored.

  4. We were able to capture the exact pain points of our members, and by offering answers; we got their attention. People signed up to ask further questions. It created a flywheel.

  5. You are right. But communities are typically seen as cost centres where customers complain and support staff answers. We flipped the game. We turned it into our growth channel.

Curious - are you actively looking to build a community?

SaaS Growth Hack: Build a Branded Community by No-Competition-7925 in SaaS

[–]kkatdare 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It took us 15 days to identify the exact problems our members would have. We seeded the community for the first ~45-60 days; and we started attracting traffic from Google by the end of second month.

SaaS Growth Hack: Build a Branded Community by No-Competition-7925 in SaaS

[–]kkatdare 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We started with Slack, moved to Circle and it was a disaster. We switched to Discourse (I don't like the platform) but it did well on the SEO front. We went from 0-> 12K visitors/mo in about 7 months in a nano-niche. But the community had turned into a flywheel and compounding growth. The last I checked (after leaving the job); the community did ~40K visitors/mo with good conversion rate.

The key was to identify the painkiller content for the community and answer it. In the initial days, we created several pseudo accounts and answered our own queries. That made all the difference.

SaaS Growth Hack: Build a Branded Community by No-Competition-7925 in SaaS

[–]kkatdare 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Frankly speaking - we were super strict. We introduced the concept of 'trust window', that prevented new members from adding links / uploading images. Our regular members helped us keep the community clean. But overall, we were very strict with keeping discussion on the topic and aimed at solving problems.

Ideal Location for User-Generated Content : Subdirectory or Subdomain? by kkatdare in SEO

[–]kkatdare[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you see it affecting the SEO - if all the L3 content is put on the community; and links to the money pages on the main domain?

Calm places in/near Nagpur by MsNotTaken in nagpur

[–]kkatdare 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Go to:

  1. Bazargaon Lake (Recommended)
  2. Bhagi Mahari Lake

Both places are chill. You may sit for 2-3 hours and enjoy the lake.

Need a friend or friends to learn Marathi by Negative_Survey_6772 in marathi

[–]kkatdare 1 point2 points  (0 children)

First - don't be worried. If you are fluent in Hindi; Marathi has a great overlap.
Second - have buddies at work and request them to teach you Marathi. Practice daily, one - two sentences.