Brick by Brick: A free guide to building awesome communities Brick by Brick: A free guide to building awesome communities

Illustration by Adrien Griveau

Why do some communities thrive while others become ghost towns?

Building an audience is already tricky, but establishing a true community is even harder.

Setting up your blog, forum, or chat room is only the beginning. It's what you do after that will make all the difference. So in this guide, we'll look at nine “bricks” you can use to build up your community.

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Telescope, an open-source community app.

Introducing Telescope

This guide was written for Telescope, a free open-source app that makes it easy for anybody to launch their own Product Hunt or Hacker News.

That being said it, it should be equally applicable to any other type of community.

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With Wisdom From These Fine Folks:

Justin Kan

The Drop

Pieter Levels

#Nomads

Josh Owens

Crater.io

Jean-Nicholas Hould

Bootstrappers.io

Justin Jackson

Product People Club

Ryan Gum

Closing Call

Kelly Sutton

Designer News
And more…

The Bricks

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The Author

I work on Telescope, an open-source community app that makes it easy for anybody to launch their own Product Hunt or Hacker News

I'm also one of the authors of Discover Meteor, a book about the Meteor JavaScript framework, and the creator of Sidebar, a daily newsletter of five great design links.

You can follow me on Twitter or learn more about me on my site.

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