Almost all of us in this community has built something and at some point we have either succeeded or failed. Some of us are trying to build something as well. The question here is how to gain recognition by the people and gain active members for what we built. If i build, will they come? How? I know that "build, they will come" is just a metaphor however there must be a way to spread it. Spreading like a virus or one by one each day, the speed does not matter at all. The outcome is what matters. I honestly do not mind if i have 25K users in the very first day or month or year. How did previous entrepreneurs do that in the last 5 or 10 years? What were their strategies? What they didn't have at their time and what do we have now and vice versa? What should be our spreading strategy? Social networks? Social media? Word of mouth? How does one trigger the spread? How should we use our imagination or should we? Are there any proven methods? Which books should we read about this? How should we educate ourselves on this matter? Let's discuss this. Thanks in advance.