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Jan Senderek
Frond 3.0 — Make money with your content and community
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Frond is a refreshingly simple take on forums. We’re introducing a slate of new features that make Frond the easiest way to make money with your content and community: host your community on a custom domain, create paywalls, sell courses, and organize events.
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Jan Senderek
Hi everyone! I am Jan, one of the founders at Frond. The year is coming to a close, but before we wave goodbye to 2023, we’d like to say thank you with our biggest launch yet. We listened closely to your feedback and we shipped a bundle of new features that allow you to not only manage but also monetize your community: 1. Courses: Create, publish, and sell courses 2. Paywalls: Monetize exclusive groups with subscriptions 3. Custom domains: Host your community on a domain you own 4. Events: Create, manage, and discuss community events We’ve added these features to make Frond the easiest way for creators to make money with their content and community – and we’ve done all this while keeping Frond the simple and lightweight product your community knows and loves. And while feeling festive, we’re giving all Product Hunt users 25% off their first payment on any plan. Make sure to use this code by Jan 15, 2024: PH2023 Thank you to all our devoted users who contributed their feedback and ideas on our customer community (http://frond.com/frond). We couldn’t be building Frond without you! Here’s to all the amazing communities we’re creating together! 🥳
Jan Senderek
@hayrespereira Thanks so much, Humberto!
Tornike Tsiramua
@jans Congrats on the exciting updates and thank you for the generous discount! 🚀 I'm curious, which feature are your existing users most excited about, and what inspired the decision to prioritize these specific additions?
Matthias Link
@mohini_shewale Thank you, Mohini!
Sandhya Mishra
@jans Congrats on the launch! I'm loving these new features on Frond, especially the custom domains and paywalls. Super cool!
Jan Senderek
@frederik_nagel 🙏🙏🙏
Patrick Prokesch
This looks really useful. Pretty sweet UX too. What’s your sweetspot among platforms like gumroad and substack?
@patprokesch +1 And also luma and podia?
Jan Senderek
@patprokesch Thx Patrick! Great question - Gumroad and Substack are valuable players in the creator economy, each filling their own space. Gumroad, in my mind, is wonderful at allowing folks to make individual sales of any kind, while Substack is great for building an audience around a podcast or newsletter. We've found that there is a lot more a creator can do, though: many creators understand that they already have a following waiting to engage more deeply with them. That's why Frond, first and foremost, is a community product (imagine Facebook groups but without Facebook), closely followed by content monetization!
Iaroslav Chuikov
Congrats on the launch!
Jan Senderek
@je_suis_yaroslav Much appreciated!
Derek
This is fantastic and the demo is great- especially switching between multiple account. 🌟 Great job 👏🏻 this is going to be a winner. 📈
Jan Senderek
@derkolstad Thanks, Derek!
Matthew Blackshaw
@derkolstad Thank you for the kind words!
Julian Philipp Nagel
Love Frond 3.0 Specifically making money with my content / community is an absolute game changer!!
Matthias Link
@jpnagel Thank you for the kind words, Julian!
Davis Nunez
Great UI/UX. This could be helpful for businesses and brands, potentially for businesses that don't want to keep everything in Slack as well. Congrats on the launch, wishing you nothing the best! 🚀
Matthias Link
@davisnz Thank you, Davis. You got it! We support many kinds of use cases.
Matthew Blackshaw
@davisnz Appreciate the kind words!
Aleksandr Cryptoved I WAODAO
I think it may be useful to add crypto payments to your project. Congrats with launch!
Nikolai Stosch
@cryptoved Thanks for your suggestion! 🙏
Jan Senderek
@cryptoved Definitely a great idea!
Matthew Blackshaw
@cryptoved We're looking into crypto use cases very soon! Agree that Frond could help a lot of crypto folks!
Vishal Reddy
This has grown a lot since the last time I saw frond. Great going guys keep it up.
Colin McDermott
Cool product, good luck with your 3.0!
Peter Medgyesi
Great solution for our community! It's straightforward to use. I can't wait for the mobile app! Keep up the good work Frond team!
Jan Senderek
@peter_medgyesi Thanks so much, Peter. The mobile app is coming in the not so distant future :)
Matthew Blackshaw
@peter_medgyesi Thanks for the kind words Peter!
Aurelio
looks very promising, congrats guys!
Matthias Link
@aureliovolle Thank you, Aurelio!
Garen Orchyan
Congratulations on the launch, best of luck to you today ♥️🦄
Matthias Link
@orchyan Thank you, Garen!! Much appreciated your support
Kostya Bolshukhin
Guys wish you luck! Love the way you shared free access for early users in April. Bald and smart (hope it worked) Free forever, for now ❤️
Nikolai Stosch
@kostyabolsh Thanks for being an early user and following our journey :)
Jan Senderek
@kostyabolsh Great to have you on board for all this time, Konstantin!
Matthew Blackshaw
@kostyabolsh Thank you for the kind words! We still have a free plan too!
Congratulations to team Frond 3.0 on the amazing launch! Your focus on giving power to the content creators is commendable. Here's an idea that might make the platform even engaging: how about introducing a tier-based membership feature which unlocks exclusive content at each level? This could be a fun addition for audience engagement and creator revenue. Best of luck!
Konstantin Panfilov
Hey, congratulations on your launch! My only question is this: the prices listed on your website look amazingly low, what is the reason for this? It seems that such a service should cost more or at least charge for each seat, and not for access as a whole.
Jan Senderek
@panphilov Thanks, Konstantin. Our pricing is set so that it appeals to new community admins who are just getting started with their communities. Down the road, we will likely add another tier (not excluding that this will be per seat) that will capture the other end of the market - advanced or enterprise communities. Hope that makes sense!
Aashish Peepra
Hey Jan! 🎉 Big kudos to the Frond team for these awesome updates, especially the Courses and Paywalls – seems like a game-changer for community monetization! 🚀 How do you envision creators leveraging the new features to enhance both engagement and revenue streams within their communities?
Naveed Rehman
how big should b the community n will it help making community? why not build community on social media like linkedin n share the link of course on udemy? why is it better than that?
Sandra Djajic
Congratulations on the launch! I was wondering, how is the competition on this market? How do you distinguish yourself?:)
Bon
It looks quite good. I have a question though: It seems like Discord is also sufficient, so what are the advantages of Frond?
Jan Senderek
@bonvisions Thanks, Bon! Discord is great for quick and constant chat, but in our minds, could it be more inviting to build a meaningful community? Many communities don't require daily interaction to be valuable. At the core, a product like Frond (where conversations are threaded and digested) is more accessible for most folks than a chat app that is often hard to keep up with. Beyond that, with Frond, we're offering more features to help admins manage and monetize their communities.
Rosie Sherry
Congrats, it's great to see Frond evolving.