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by raziel2p 2076 days ago
A page comparing yourself to other similar apps (Slack, Discord) would be nice. The front page just gives me the impression that this is yet another fragmented chat app that people will be hesitant to download.

Your "member guide" (https://www.notion.so/Openland-Member-Guide-a249051153614aef...) only contains bullet points and your "why another social network" (https://www.notion.so/Why-The-World-Needs-a-New-Social-Netwo...) is extremely vague.

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I very much second this. Have no idea why to use Openland when there are so many more alternatives with an optimized vision for their usage.

Openland vs Slack

Openland vs Discord

Openland vs Facebook Groups

etc.

The classic of course is hubspot -> https://www.hubspot.com/products/sales/salesforce-vs-hubspot

Openland advantages over Slack / Discord:

- Member onboarding

- Integrations (CRMs, Zoom, etc.)

- Automated messaging

- Hashtags for messages and profiles

- Threaded comments (Discord don't have them)

- Community analytics

- Paid communities (one-time, subscription, donations)

- More to come. We work directly with community organizers on new functionality they need the most.

We'll be expanding our articles and guides soon. The community building playbook is the one I recommend to read now https://www.notion.so/openland/Openland-s-Playbook-for-Commu...

Wait - are you claiming that integrations are an advantage Openland has over Slack? Care to elaborate on that?
Yeah... most of this is highly theoretical and hand-wavy. Needs a real marketing department to handle this narrative, not the CEO.