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Owned Discord community + gated early-access/referral platform

Platform to help founders create a product Discord, manage gated early access, and turn first users into advocates.

Summary

Product to create and manage private Discord communities for new products: invite gating, waitlist-to-Discord onboarding, free-access-for-advocate flows, analytics on referrals and conversion.

Problem

Founders need a structured way to funnel niche community members into a product-owned Discord and convert early users into paying customers via advocacy.

Target customer

SaaS founders, indie makers, community-led products aiming to convert early adopters into advocates.

Solution

A dashboard + Discord bot that manages waitlists, issues invite codes, tracks which early users invited new paying users, and automates advocate rewards and onboarding.

Business model

saas subscription (per-server pricing)add-on modules: analytics, referral rewardssetup/onboarding service

Distribution

founder/creator communitiesproduct huntcontent and tutorial marketing

Required skills

discord bot developmentbackend and webhooksgrowth and rewards designcustomer success

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