Magic sauce of top community businesses
We interviewed the top community creators, extracted their secret recipes and put it all into this free email course.
Who's behind this?
It's me - Nityesh, from Curated Connections where we build self-driving software for communities.
We're basically a tiny bootstrapped startup. Everyone on the internet said we should be doing the "smart" things – you know, cold emails, seo stuff, ai-generated content, paid ads. All those marketing tactics that help you hack growth itself.
We tried it but realized that it was all boring, if not soul sucking. So we said f*ck it. We'll do marketing the hard way.
Instead, we decided to take a journalistic approach and create the single best piece of educational resource on building a community business.
Here's our process:
- Find the wizards: that's founders/operators who have created magic in their communities.
- Make them spill their secrets: we invite them on a podcast and dive deep until they share their secret sauce (NGL some of their insights make me feel stupid for not knowing them earlier)
- Distill their magic sauce: Finally, I distill their magic sauce into bite-sized lessons that people get for free.
We're doing it because building communities is hard AF. You've got the constant upkeep. The churn problems. The endless work.
But...
We've all been in those communities where magic happens. Where members create value for each other. Powerful connections are made unlocking life-changing opportunities for its members.
Our world needs more such communities.
That's why we're doing Beginner Maps.
Learn from the best teachers
Operators of top community businesses share their best strategies here. So you can build a magical community.
Creators seem to really love this...
Erin Halper
It was mostly failures for me in the beginning and I wish you were around when I was building my community.
Erin Eleuterio
Beginner Maps was my 2nd most listened to podcast this year, right behind the Tim Ferris podcast 🙂 Thanks for putting your podcast out there and having awesome, knowledgeable, and insightful guests who understand the business of building community. You're rocking it!🙌
Anthony Nardini
I've listened to many of the episodes of this podcast and I've found that even the episodes that aren't on the surface relevant to what I'm building, I'm taking away something from the episode.
Kasia Triantafelo
I've watched your videos and I wish they existed 3 years ago. Every time I listen, I'm taking notes.
Nick Christensen
Loved your post with Daniel on one-time vs lifetime, talking alot about that same thing at AppSumo. Also I love your site, who built it?
Karan Zoria
Been loving your podcast Nityesh! I'm very picky about my podcasts but you ask insightful questions. Thanks!
Leone Baron
Just wanted to say that I'm loving Beginner Maps, started my fourth episode today and thought I'd reach out to say a huge well done, just in case you haven't heard it once today!
Oli Bridge
This is super impressive. Your design, copywriting and concept is amazing. Love the idea of pulling together the best "teachers" and therefore the best lessons.
Zac King
I'm loving the email course - it's a goddamn masterclass, thanks for putting it together.
Todd Nilson
I just learned about your podcast on my feed. WOW. Looks like a lot of great resources. I subscribed via Youtube immediately.
So, here's the signup form again
Learn what these community wizards are doing right so you can replicate their success