How makers stay productive

I have given your project a look in mobile and I think the design is pretty awesome so don’t need to change anything there (unless it looks way different in the desktop).

A few things that you might want to change:

• Make it more obvious where to click to check a channel - I pressed the title and the description but nothing happened. Maybe it would be worth to add a link to the whole card instead of the little /

• it would be cool if you could integrate the register/login with other services like GitHub so I don’t have to create another password.

• let the user see the chat in the room before he even registers. I checked a lot of rooms and all of them looked empty because I wasn’t logged in.

This were just a few things that I think it might help a bit at least from a perspective of someone that visited the site for the first time.

Remember that you are pretty much competing with slack, Gitter and possibly matrix so it will be hard to get people to join your project unless you give some value like people happy to help folk.

I guess you could try to get people to try by visiting dev communities and ask them to have a look. But also add some tips that people find useful so they feel more compelled to participate? Just a thought 🤔

No, don't recode it, don't try to make it faster. If you already don't have users then those things offer no value to improving that situation. With that said, you could fix a few visual issues like top margin on login/register pages. Remove anything referencing that you are in "Beta" I feel like that implies that you aren't stable and could shut the service down at any given moment. No one will commit time to a community that has that sort of fear in the back of their heads.

I'm not seeing any social media accounts that relate to the site, Twitter? Facebook? LinkedIn? Instagram? Do they exist? Hard to grow interest if you aren't visible. Something I have really focused this year on is just "Being Visible" if people don't know you exist then you will not exist. When people post questions, you should push those questions out to your social media channels with a link back to the chat room.

It's quite possible you have too many chat rooms, maybe it's too overwhelming for people? Find a moderator for every room, let them basically own it and try to grow it. Every room needs someone to provide direction/focus, with 100 rooms you can't do that yourself.

As mentioned above, you are competing with some other community platforms that people know and trust. It's hard to get people to join something un-familiar. It's not impossible, it just means you have to work 10x harder to grow the community.

Maybe make a Slack plugin so people can easily submit questions directly from Slack.

Might want to make all chats visible without the need to login (Think StackOverflow), and would likely give you more SEO capabilities.

I'm relaunching: http://www.nerdfeedr.com/ in the next couple months, this too focuses on only designers and developers, maybe there is some sort of cross partnership opportunity there somehow.

You should spend some time on marketing. Create a twitter account, share it a few times (with hashtags). Post it in relevant communities, etc.