[keiferski]

I posted this awhile ago on a similar Ask HN. It's probably not relevant if your site is really community-driven, but it might be worth thinking about.

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Reframe your site so that you don't rely on the community to power it -- make it so each user can use the product to its fullest extent without a single other user.

We had this same problem during the early planning process for our (currently just my) startup. Ultimately we realized that we were looking at the problem the wrong way. Instead of making the tool community-powered, we made it individual-user-powered. This lets us be "successful" with far, far less users.

[navdeep]

Well my site will be solely driven by users interacting with other users. I was wondering if the Hacker News community can provide some valuable insight into a viral marketing strategy to focus on niches and then expand.