Cathleen Turner

Hey all It's time for our annual(ish) Makers Festival and this year we are partnering with TechCrunch, The Hustle and Webflow to encourage makers from all walks of life to come together to build a more eco-friendly world and compete for a grand prize worth over $1,100. You can register here until June 4th and submissions will open on June 7th. Let's use this space to introduce ourselves, get to know each other and ask for support

I am building a side-project and have about 30 active beta testers, a few paying customers who found the app themselves and paid for it, and number of people who are just interested in being part of it and follow up on updates. With some of the beta testers, we are using Discord, some of them reaching out via Twitter DM, etc. This is a bit too complicated to have too many channels open as the user base is slowly growing. I would like to get on top of this now rather than later. I wonder what are you using (I would prefer one channel) for building a community where there are: - early access users - a dedicated place just for them - customers - trials (including those who expired) - visitors Any tools you would suggest that created a space that proved to be more useful than being a distraction? Where people can easily find topics, follow up on them (anytime), or join discussions?