What problem does it solve? Starting or growing a product community often fails because teams pick the wrong platform, skip seeding, and lack rituals or health metrics. This Skill provides a structured playbook for launching, auditing, and growing communities on Discord, Slack, Reddit, forums, and similar platforms. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Launch and Growth Playbooks: Step-by-step guidance for recruiting founding members, seeding conversations, designing new member journeys, and building ambassador programs. - Platform Selection and Health Metrics: A comparison table for Discord, Slack, Circle, Reddit, Facebook Groups, and Discourse, plus evidence-classed metrics like DAU/MAU ratio, new member post rate, and thread reply rate. - Structured Deliverables: Six output formats including a Community Strategy Doc, Channel Architecture, Ritual Calendar, Ambassador Program Brief, and Health Audit Report. - Use Case: A B2B SaaS team with 40 members and only 2-3 active posters uses the Skill to diagnose the activation bottleneck, design a welcome journey, and set up weekly rituals with measurable success signals. ## Quick Start Use the suede-community-marketing skill to audit my Discord community of 500 members and produce a health audit report with the top three priorities to fix.