Building Interactively in Public: Why Community is at the Core
Since the early days of Interactively, I’ve made a conscious decision to build it in public.
Having worked in web3 for a good part of my career, I’ve seen firsthand how powerful community can be, not just for launching a product, but for shaping it into something truly useful. In decentralized ecosystems, transparency, contribution, and feedback loops aren’t just values, they're lifelines. That ethos is something I’m bringing into Interactively from day one.
Why Community Matters
Community means more than just having a group of users. It means creating a shared space for learning, contributing, celebrating wins, and most importantly, shaping the direction of the product together. In web3, we build with the community. We co-create, we listen, and we stay accountable. That mindset doesn’t need to be exclusive to tokens or DAOs. It works just as powerfully for SaaS, especially a product like Interactively, which is built to help other people tell their product stories.
The Interactively Community
To foster real conversations and feedback, we’re launching the Interactively Slack community. It’s a casual, open space to chat about what we’re building, share early demos, and stay in the loop on upcoming launches and experiments.
I’m keeping it light but intentional. This isn’t a support channel. It’s a place to be a part of the journey — whether you're a power user, an observer, or just someone who likes trying products early.
Publishing Our Roadmap and Dev Updates
Transparency is a core value here at Interactively. Our public roadmap will be live shortly via Productboard where users can track our progress, see what features are in progress and coming up, give feedback, and view dev updates.
Building Features People Actually Want
Too many products are built in isolation. We’re building with community input at every step so the features we ship are ones people are already asking for.
Join Us Early
If you want to help shape the future of Interactively, or just want to hang out while we build it, come join us on Slack. Go to our X profile (https://x.com/Interactivelyio) to learn how you can join.
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Building interactively in public fosters real-time feedback and trust, accelerating better product decisions.
Community becomes the compass, shaping direction through shared insights and support.
@raul_richardson Yup! Interactive demos are so versatile in terms of design, editing tools, implementation, etc so we really want to understand what our users need and want so our future developments are strategically planned around our customers, since they will be the ones showcasing off the demos.
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Thank you for your tips, Jennifer, I always say that the community is core.
Just one question: Is Web3 and DAO still a big thing? I remember better times for those projects (2020, 2021) and now feel decline, even some advocates for these industries have changed their focus to something else.
@busmark_w_nika Community really is core! We only want to provide the best possible experience to our users when it comes to building demos for their products.
Web3 and DAOs are very much still very popular. One thing I learned during my time in Web3 is that projects with the strongest communities are often the ones that succeed in the long run. The support and community in web3 is incredible and I want to emulate that for Interactively.
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@jennifer_interactively True, community is crucial, but I can see even in the most popular projects in decline (especially) in NFTs. And it seems more like a speculation that occurred somewhere in 2017 and then in 2021.
@busmark_w_nika That's very true, NFTs were a huge trend at one point but they have definitely died down. I've noticed that projects that are more transparent and with their community (eg. use their real identity, post updates and interact consistently) and actually have decent utility usually do pretty well. That's where NFTs lacked, most had little or no utility at all and no real foundation as a team.
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@jennifer_interactively Are then these 2 different? I mean the community in Web3 you present and NFT?
Love how you're weaving the spirit of web3 into SaaS. Building in public feels raw and real and that's what people connect with. Starting a Slack community sounds like a great move. It makes feedback loops faster and more authentic.
@asheer_ahmad Exactly what I was thinking! Especially since Interactively is a product that our users will be showing to their users, I want to make sure that our users are ecstatic about their Interactively demos. Product demos are so important to every teams journey, whether their teaching their customers how to use their product, pitching to investors, marketing their demos, applying to accelerators, the list goes on... Its often others first impression of their product so we want to ensure we can provide the right tools for building great demos.