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The last three months I've been part of organizing 3 hackathons and looked at almost 2000 projects building on @base. I want to share the single, most impactful skill I've seen that separates ones that are highly likely to succeed from those that face challenges getting users:

> Building community

Being skillful at building community enables projects to:

1. Find and talk to users
2. Iterate quickly
3. Build something they want

Building community is not marketing. It is not social amplification. It is not spending money. It's spending time.

Running communities @base • Former maintainer: bitcoin.org • Editor: Mastering Bitcoin & Mastering Ethereum • Builder: github.com/wbnns

It's every day, going out into the digital streets (and IRL ones too), finding people one by one, then few by few, and so on, who want to come back to a Discord, a Farcaster channel or Telegram and believe in what a builder says is being built.

And here's the thing -- anyone can become skillful at building community, but the only way to get better at it is to do it every day. To fail with some folks and to succeed with others.

To do it over and over again without relent.

The best community builders are often the ones that have failed the most. Because failure is the engine that has driven them to find different ways to succeed.