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Discussion on: I'm a co-founder of dev.to (this website), ask me anything!

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Anna Rankin

What's the hardest part about building a community?

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Jess Lee

Communities take time to blossom so we could never have a 'build it and they will come' mentality. We spent a lot of (enjoyable) time building relationships with early adopters and listening to their feedback. But the difficult part is being patient and thinking hard about which pieces of advice/feedback to take and which to move on from. So, the hardest part is figuring out what's best for the community. At the end of the day, it's all of you that make this work because our tech isn't anything to write home about.

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Ben Halpern

Damn, really well put.