Hello all,
I’m in the process of creating a private community, with paid access/vetted members. The community is the central magnet of my business/website, with a few derived professional services where I hope to make most of my revenue.
I was looking for a software to host private text discussions, and Discourse is a possibility, along with other closed sources providers like Circle. Access to the discourse server is going be invite only, with the payment managed separately with stripe on my website.
But I also want to do a weekly private stream, for a few hours each week, with between 10 and 100 viewers in a first time, scalable to 500 user long term. For public streams, the choices are very obvious (YouTube…), but for private streams, I found a lot of providers, all with very different offers and sometimes very (too) technical.
I’m sure it’s a situation some of you have been. Which solution did you choose? I appreciate all your answers in advance.
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Thank you @NateDhaliwal for the quick reply!
I looked at the links you provided… And it’s mostly about technical integration with Discourse, right? I am not yet at this stage.
My post was more about the choice of tools to have both a livestream and discussion space for the same community.
Many tools propose both by default (for instance Circle), but it comes with several disadvantages… Discourse has the huge advantage to be an established open-source forum software.
But the question is now, which tool use in addition to Discourse to do private streams for 100-500 members? I’m sure there is well known solution for that, but I don’t know it. The use case is a weekly stream for a few hours, ideally, I just drop the link on my discourse forum and people join the stream.
I searched again today… It seems Zoom propose a webinar product which could fit, but I would like to have the opinions of more experienced community managers (I’m an engineer by profession).
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