Goals
- Engage developer communities in building their projects, open-source projects and indie products, rather than passively listening.
- Encourage people to Learn in Public and Build in Public.
- Provide a safe space for people to fail, build, and be encouraged to try again.
Pains
- Building products is a lonely journey with a lot of emotions.
- Failing to gain traction, first users, or getting negative or no feedback can be very heartbreaking.
- How might we support people who are on their journey to build their first indie products or projects?
- S: reflection circles? weekly livestreams? Hack Nights at Garden Zero?
- Many people failed to build products and MVPs, because of lack of know-how.
- Many don't know how to define their MVP scope, and end up procrastinating.
- S: How to build an MVP series, Launch a Month
- Hosting meetups, hack nights, hackathons and events has a lot of friction, so the community isn't very active.
- PS. people are still quite alienated/adverse/unknown to the Web3 community (understandably, including me)
- S: Zero effort events with Garden Zero
Chun's Ideas
What can we do? / How to do it?
- How to build an MVP series
- A series of workshops for people who are new to building products, covering MVP hands-on.
- Leading to communities for builders, similar to how the Fab Network was born out of series of classes.
- Optional tracks for people who are interested in Web3, or other aspects of product.
- Poom and Chun already tried this: How to build an MVP - Trial Class, Building MVPs for Developers -- the latest workshop was quite great.
- Indie Makers Community
- Start small with Chun, Poom, and a couple our friends who are building products in public.
- Circles to share our learning every week.
- Make it easy for people to join in and build along with us, similar to Buildspace.
- See more ideas in the note ^
- Hack Nights at Garden Zero
- We can host "hack nights" for people to hack together.
- We already built the Garden Gate authorizer that generates QR codes, so staffs can already invite people in.
- Zero effort events with Garden Zero
- In addition to Hack Nights, host occasional events that requires lower effort (Fridays?) and make it easy for other communities to join in.
- Garden Zero
FigJam
How other communities does it?
- Buildspace
- Season 4's Nights and Weekends just done!
- Used to only accept Web3 projects with Web3 courses, now it's open to every project.
- Online-first, with offline gatherings later (Online + IRL)
- Commitment guidelines of 10 hours/week
- Very good livestreams and content produced
- Final 32
- Noisebridge Hackerspace
- "creative technology community for excellent, do-ocratic, consensus-based collaboration"
- hackerspace at SF, very good vibes
- Has a great wiki of events and projects, uses Meetup.com for recurring events
- Hack Club
- middle-to-high-school students club for "teen hackers"
- super cool vibe
- provides a club system for students to open their own clubs (sortof-like chapters)
- provides tools, directories and guidance for hackathon organizers and hackers
- provides an open-source bank system, allowing clubs to request money from a central source
- Clubhouse Network
- Mitchel Resnick's extension of the computer clubhouse program
- Clubhouse vibe is for students who is learning to code, explores the 4Ps of Creative Learning by building projects with friends