1. Creating opportunities for people to discover the community/project: Your goal here is to attract primarily intrinsically motivated community members as opposed to purely extrinsic reasons.
A series of problem-solving experiments reveal that people are more likely to consider solutions that add features than solutions that remove them, even when removing features is more efficient.
I’ve identified eight categories here: Messaging, Voice & Video, Calendar & Meetings, Documentation, Project Management, Design, Search & Context, and Low Code/No Code & Internal Tools. Companies across these categories share a melange of the same core customers: knowledge workers, remote and distributed teams, product development teams, and white... See more
The creative proof-of-work is just pretext and helps to boost your post. What’s more important are the additional proof mechanisms that social networks provide. In the case of Instagram those are photos and location tags.