Ask HN: Need help with growing our community of founders
Yet, there's a struggle with getting it off the ground.
It's really hard get founders to see us, deliver the value and get them join us. After they join us it's hard to have them talk. I think we're at catch 22. We focus on building relationships over just networking and I personally want to help members 1-on-1 with their goals and struggles. For an offer as compelling as this, we're still not getting signups. I believe in this idea, but it's like I'm selling something that nobody wants.
It's a community of founders at join.coulf.com and I'm a founder myself, so I built something that I wish existed. But after getting harsh feedback from other founders, i.e. "who cares about relationships or your support" "we need something to sell to others, a distribution channel. Not this" among other ones, I'm thinking of pivoting to focus on networks rather than relationships, and generic community stuff rather than 1-on-1 help with projects and accountability.
Is it bad to pivot into this networking and generic community concept?
I don't believe in that, but that's what people want. I just don't want the work I've put in get wasted so I'm in a dilemma to choose networking aspect or stick to what I believe and try to grow it.