Community Fund — An early-stage accelerator to help communities grow from 0-1

Hola Product Hunters :D So excited to take this live! Our mission with the Community Fund is to create a pay-it-forward movement to empower anyone looking to get interesting folks together, run a community & help others to earn a living doing what they love. 🔮 Why are we doing this? When we were starting off The Product Folks, trust us, the journey was equally hard. This is our way of giving back from the immense support we’ve received from the ecosystem and help build incredible communities globally. Communities are great ways in which people learn, network and level up in their careers. We believe if there’s a supportive community for every need and domain, people part of the community will grow together. Back when we started The Product Folks, we felt there was no playbook we could replicate to grow. We were short of resources on many fronts and there was added chaos of doing something for the first time. That adds to the fun but we hope you’ll have fun in many other ways :) Over the last couple of months, we’ve been able to learn from some of the best global community managers and we feel that these learnings, if available at the grassroot level, can be a huge boost to the community you’re trying to build. We hope this helps us bring the ecosystem together, putting our best resources in one pot, enabling us to learn and grow together at 10x rate and along the way make some wonderful friends :) We're with you at every step, we promise. Come join us for this fun ride, DMs open in case there’s anything else we could help with: https://twitter.com/TheProductfolks PS: In case you'd like to partner or you'd like to get involved, please drop a comment and I'll reach out to you, would love to chat :)

Really interesting! Community building is now a critical component of product development. Will consider this approach when I need to start a community.

Hey Community Visionaries 🙌 🙋 🙋🏻‍♂️ It's a phenomenal opportunity If you are building a community from the scratch or looking to scale. Feel free to reach out to us, and grab a chance to be a part of the tribe👇👇 What will you get? 🤔 🕵️‍♂️ Access to inner circle of community builders 🏢 Help you set the vision for the community and roadmap planning 💸 Funds and Access to the pool of sponsors ⛓️ Mentorship from the folks who scaled it already 👥 1-on-1’s with Global Community leaders and office hours 🧰 Tools for hosting and engaging the community 📞 Access to curated speaker list 🔮 Tried and tested event planning workflow We believe learning from other's mistakes is the best way to scale and we are here to open our playbook for you! Looking forward to hearing from you soon✨✨ Thanks @kevin for hunting us!! 🙌

Woah! This looks super interesting and would be a great initiative in this community led world. Excited to see this happening.

The Product Folks team is bang on as usual. This is such a good initiative. I definitely think this will be one of the best programs for community builders out there.

Amazing initiative! So good to see this go live. More power to Suhas and the rest of the amazing squad.

Super excited to launch Community Fund today, a project on which we at The Product Folks have been working super hard for the past few months. Communities are already powering the next wave of products on the internet. We want to ensure that community builders don't face the same challenges that we did while building TPF. We'll be sharing our entire community building playbook that helped us start and then scale a community in India from the ground up. Building a community? Go to the website and apply to be part of the initiative. Can't wait to work together and help you build impactful communities 🚀

Applied! Also, the question asking for background on the founders is a short answer field, y’all may want to update to long text. Thanks for creating this!

Suhas, Aditya, and Team - you'll have built the best community of product people in India and scaled it up to amazing levels! So it's perfect that you are helping others scale their communities. Super excited to see this live!

Everyone talks about the power of community and how important it is but this is a tangible and practical way to actually make this happen for folks, love it @suhasmotwani!

Hey Community Builders 👋 We're super excited to introduce our unique initiative for all community builders. We have had our rollercoaster journey while building The Product Folks. Through this initiative, we are trying to give back to the community and help them learn from our failures and success. A platform where we learn together and grow together. Who can apply? Any community builder who has the vision to start a community or looking to scale the community 🚀🚀 Whom are you waiting for??Let's learn together and grow together. Apply now!!!

Pretty neat! How do you go about funding communities that apply? Is this venture capital or a more traditional loan?

Looks super interesting! Do you have any details on the equity-free grant for startups accepted into the program?

This looks really promising! Excited to see this shaping lives through the medium of communities this community fund powers. 💪

Always amazing to see members of the Inverted Passions community building cool products. Nice work @shreyanshi_shah

Hello Community Enthusiast's , Super Excited to have this live here📍 After experiencing and understanding the challenges of 'How to build community' and to 'Scale One', we have come up with unique initiative of Community Fund. We have grown Product folks from zero to one and now we are now here to help you. Let's convert your community vision to reality!👍 Waiting for you all to apply and help you build amazing community!🚀

This is solid giving back to community and helping others build similar to what The product folks has done!!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

Great initiative. Good to see the work you are doing to give back. Very forward looking and collaborative. All the best!

Once you reach a certain level, giving back to the community is really important and most people are not doing it and they easily forget where they are coming from. Great initiative, thanks in advance on behalf of a lot of people who will benefit from it!

I have learned the most from communities (and people). I can definitely vouch for how useful this initiative is for many communities at different stages of their journey. Thank you and all the best!