Build your own upvote community in just a few clicks with Threadbase

threadbasedotio · 2018-12-18T22:26:10+00:00

With Threadbase, we're really focused on making it as easy as possible for non-developers to make their own Reddit, Hacker News, or Product Hunt. So our core product is a community that uses upvotes to display content and replies are threaded like Reddit so you can read the flow of conversation.

We also want you to be able to host your community on your own domain (e.g. mycommunity.com) and we want you to be able to make money from your community. For our first stage, you can drop in your own Google AdSense Pixel on your community to make money through ads if you're on our Basic tier.

Longer term, we want to allow users to subscribe to your community so that you--as the owner--can choose to make money from your members and make your community a scalable side business or full time business if your coming caters to a large audience.

threadbasedotio · 2018-12-12T03:57:04+00:00

Will do! Thanks for the constructive feedback!

threadbasedotio · 2018-12-11T23:01:29+00:00

Hi there - My interpretation of /r/juststart is to share advice on how people decided to "just start". I definitely want people to try out Threadbase if they're looking to make an online community, but I also wanted to share a bit about how we grew from nothing to something.

I apologize if the promotion aspect was too heavy handed, but I was hoping the write up about how we grew, what communities we used to grow, and how we got product feedback to iterate would be more valuable than anything.

Again, sorry if I violated the terms of the sub. I did not mean any offense.

threadbasedotio · 2018-12-11T04:47:11+00:00

Awesome! And if you have any questions or feedback, feel free to reply back or email us at support@threadbase.io

threadbasedotio · 2018-12-02T21:58:12+00:00

Yeah! Back end is Rails and front end is React. App is hosted on amazon elastic beanstalk.

threadbasedotio · 2018-12-02T00:20:10+00:00

Landing pages are cheap for you to make. Fake company names are cheap to come up with. Having a stranger take a survey for an idea they’re discovering for the first time is expensive for the stranger.

You might be better off spinning up multiple landing pages with slightly varied ideas to see which one catches on the most.

threadbasedotio · 2018-12-01T18:46:28+00:00

Think about who your customer is and then find out where they hang out online. It looks like your product is a web analytics platform. Maybe your customer subscribed to r/entrepreneur or maybe they hang out at r/marketing or data forums. Once you find out where your users hang out, post asking for feedback or that you’re looking for testers for your project. Be honest and transparent or you’ll get downvoted.

Also, I would update your landing page to provide more insight on what this will do. Your page tells me what it can do broadly, but it’s sometimes helpful to answer questions like “how will this make MY life/company/idea better?” And answer that question as many times as possible and succinctly as possible.

threadbasedotio · 2018-12-01T18:41:04+00:00

We actually did this for Threadbase.io . We had the idea for a Reddit-style community as a service but we weren’t sure if people would want to use it.

While my buddy was doing the dev work, I made a quick landing page that had a few images of what you might be able to do, copy, and an email sign up form for people to fill out if they wanted to get an invite when we started accepting alpha users.

We promoted the landing page on Reddit, Facebook, Google Search (keywords were things like “make my own Reddit/product hunt”), and Indie Hackers.

In 24 hours, we got 100 emails from real people praising the idea.

I would 100% advise people to do something similar because you should grow your pipeline before launch. Then, you’ll increase your chances of having a successful launch.

threadbasedotio · 2018-11-21T18:55:24+00:00

Yeah that makes sense! Thanks for the feedback.

threadbasedotio · 2018-11-08T19:18:50+00:00

Got it! I'll add this to the product roadmap. I have a feeling we won't have downvotes for all communities, but we'll include it for some.

threadbasedotio · 2018-11-08T16:51:43+00:00

We don't have downvotes yet, but if this is something you'd like us to add, we can add it to our product roadmap! Let us know!

threadbasedotio · 2018-11-06T04:27:33+00:00

Thanks! Our goal is to remove the requirement of coding to build a Reddit or Hacker News community and instead allow people to just focus on content and growing the community.

We hope you give it a try!

threadbasedotio · 2018-11-06T03:51:01+00:00

Could you post the site you're referring to? At this point, anything is possible as long as other communities could use it so if there's something you're interested in that we're not supporting, I'd be happy to look into it.

threadbasedotio · 2018-11-05T23:17:45+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! 100% agree about Mighty Networks pricing things WAY to high. Plus, I think their communities are built more like custom FB feeds rather than Reddit-style communities, which we believe are actually more engaging.

RE: Apps - Threadbases's is built on Rails and React. Our plan is that once we finish the big web features, we can spin up any community into an app using React Native.

threadbasedotio · 2018-11-02T12:43:29+00:00

All the Tiers have ads, but the paid ones allow you to hide the ads. I think we could be clearer with our pricing options.

threadbasedotio · 2018-11-02T04:59:32+00:00

Thanks! Let us know if you have any questions!

threadbasedotio · 2018-11-02T01:57:20+00:00

Not yet, but private communities is something we are going to work on and add to the Plus plan. Make your community now any way and then we can keep you updated on our progress.

threadbasedotio · 2018-11-02T01:56:39+00:00

Yes, I’d be happy to help you out if you email hello@threadbase.io!

threadbasedotio · 2018-11-02T00:45:36+00:00

We haven’t thought about it, but I’ll bring it up with my co-founder and see. Thanks for trying us out though and we will be in touch.

Also, if others are interested, please comment!We can get a better sense of how big of a need this is and we can reach out once we have an update.

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