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Founders – how do you identify and listen to your potential users/communities?

1 points by benoit_cotte ↗ HN
Trying to apply the "don't build hoping for interest" motto. Before conducting user interviews (via Mom tests), I wanted to start listening to specific communities online. How do you do that yourself?

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verdverm
I've been a part of the communities (develop) for a long time and later started a business once I deeply understood (enough, years) the hardest problems we face
benoit_cotte
I see - you ended up crafting for your own community. What if you are not part of the community yet and you want to join one, how would you do?
verdverm
I'd join a community primarily because I'm interested in the same thing, not because I want to find somewhere to sell / market research. Most communities will reject you for too much business unless it's a part of who they are or you've been around long enough to know how this is normal done and received.

I would not say I crafted a community (trying to do that now actually). More that I'm a developer and we hang out in certain places, and that I simply hung out

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