# Community Forum

When the user wants to promote via forums, communities, or invite users to join a...

- Repository: https://github.com/kostja94/marketing-skills (1071 stars)
- Category: Marketing
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-10-26
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add kostja94/marketing-skills --skill community-forum -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add kostja94/marketing-skills --skill community-forum -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add kostja94/marketing-skills --skill community-forum -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add kostja94/marketing-skills --skill community-forum -g -a gemini-cli -y`

## Description

When the user wants to promote via forums, communities, or invite users to join a community. Also use when the user mentions "forum promotion," "Indie Hacker," "Hacker News," "community growth," "Discord promotion," "vertical community," "brand encyclopedia," "Wikipedia," "Quora," "Reddit community," "community building," "forum marketing," or "community invite." For Reddit copy, use reddit-posts. For strategy, use integrated-marketing.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# Channels: Community & Forum Promotion

Guides forum promotion, community invitation, and vertical community marketing. Community-led growth (CLG) costs ~90% less than paid acquisition with ~3.2x higher customer LTV. Indie Hackers delivers ~23% conversion vs Product Hunt ~3%; HN and Reddit require sustained engagement. For cold start planning (first users, launch channels), see **cold-start-strategy**. For indie hacker strategy (first 100 users, Build in Public content framework, Indie Hackers tactics), see **indie-hacker-strategy**.

**When invoking**: On **first use**, if helpful, open with 1-2 sentences on what this skill covers and why it matters, then provide the main output. On **subsequent use** or when the user asks to skip, go directly to the main output.

## Initial Assessment

**Project context:** Read root `contextus.md` when present and load only the modules relevant to this task. Without Contextus, use available project material or user-provided facts and ask for missing information; do not create a parallel context system.

Identify:
1. **Goal**: Leads, community growth, brand awareness
2. **Platform fit**: Indie Hacker, HN, Reddit, Discord, vertical forums
3. **Timeline**: One-time launch vs sustained (4-6 months for Indie Hackers)

## Forum Types

The rest: https://github.com/kostja94/marketing-skills/blob/HEAD/skills/channels/community/community-forum/SKILL.md