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Ok guys, help a dev out. I'm an awful marketer — hopefully I'll get some real help on this soon, but in the meantime, what are the highest leverage suggestions you have to catch the Discord wave that I can execute on right now?

Flotilla is like 90% stable, which needs to improve, but it's enough to start catching early adopters. I can't really market myself as having feature parity with Discord (RBAC and voice chat are required), and Flotilla's trajectory is slightly different than just a Discord clone.

But with Discord's market share and the level of annoyance people are showing with it, I figure if I can catch just a fraction of a percent of the outflow it'll be a pretty large number.

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Globe99 · 6d
Free hosting?
PiecoverBTC · 6d
But won't you do the same as discord when the time comes?
Edward the Bruce · 6d
Telegram is what the boys and I are moving to. Allows all the same features.
Karnage · 6d
Create an X account and talk about AI. Use Ai to craft your tweets. Keep talking about discord. Bring up your app in that context. 🤷‍♂️
utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻 · 6d
I think try to pick some subset of discord users (gamers, tech YouTubers etc) and have the sign up UX really tailor to them, maybe you setup a few relays and groups in advance and top of list that makes it just work for them right away Then outreach them and offer hosting or something, or just ask...
elsat · 6d
Dont chase the red herring of “feature parity”. Figure out who your customers are, who they are not, and what are their pain points, jobs-to-be-done, motivations, and how discord is failing at serving them. nostr:nevent1qqsydhxpr7wh3r62wa3kprqe7pttw6qc8y7jcfvwwkfzs6shw8x89vgpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv...
cadayton · 6d
Maybe BTC Sessions can provide a good intro covering Flotilla usage.🤔
Giszmo · 6d
Midjourney is the biggest user of discord with 20M members. In the Midjourney instance you can use the /imagine command. Now /imagine you could use DVMs from the chat in a similar way in flotilla ... Flotilla is missing much more for feature parity than what you outlined but there is a huge percen...
bastiat · 6d
The most important thing to prepare is your website and documentation IMO. On the flotilla website you put heavy emphasis on "Book a Demo", and it makes it come across as if you can't just go and try it right now. I think its fine to have a book a demo button further down maybe, but front and center...
𝕋𝕠𝕕𝕕 𝕊𝕞𝕚𝕥𝕙 · 6d
I posted on every post I could find on X I ran out of search results. You're Welcome
τέχνη · 6d
You could try to handhold some full server migrations and then use them as success stories or at least learning experiences. Of course actual advertising works too. Someone I know got an advertisement for the new Freenet protocol lol. But if you’re not sure of the friction points for onboarding...
CXPLAY · 6d
People want not only the Discord experience, but also the unlimited data retention it promises. It may be necessary to offer an option to host users' private keys with Flotilla, allowing them to use the app through the classic login process without having to think about signing and authorization iss...
SondreB · 6d
It has been my long term plan to add community/Discord/Slack-style features to nostr:nprofile1qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq32amnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7tcpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtcqyrgm6venxueae3q37rhgjwechpfzlsx7yfll73vanyzyemv7v4vpkz3dmep. It's already overwhelming with features a...
Giszmo · 6d
I see you want to make money with this but also that it's 10% unstable and far from feature complete. Market yourself as the concierge service for this open source tool. Seek partners for its promotion, offering free hosting and concierge service for a year. After all you want beta testers and prob...
youngMoney · 5d
Some kind of free discord that is similar but with no age verification and like Nostr. Something that just works that’s basic
Matt Lorentz · 5d
I like the marketing pattern of making a page on your marketing site titled “Flotilla for Discord users” that specifically talks to people looking to leave Discord. Great for humans and SEO. Also there have been a lot of threads about Discord alternatives on Reddit.com/r/selfhosted lately. Mayb...
Mike Dilger ☑️ · 4d
Rebrand. Rename it 'Zulip'