10 lessons about community building from 7 months of running Kiwi

The author argues that Kiwi News built a strong community by letting members co-create the product, not by promotion alone. The article says Kiwi has about 1,300 monthly readers and 200 curators after seven months, with curators' submissions shaping the feed and the community's quality directly influencing the product. It credits shared activities such as a leaderboard that rewards "kiwi karma," offline meetups at ETH conferences in Paris, Berlin, Warsaw and Istanbul, and a Retro PGF round where members voted using their karma.