Growth idea action plan
Creator-payout template gallery for distribution
Centralize community templates in one official gallery and give creators enough visibility or payout upside that they want to distribute the product for you.
Why this can grow a startup
A good gallery lowers adoption friction for new users, but the stronger benefit is outside the product. Creators have a reason to teach, share, and rank pages about the tool because their own template business or profile grows with it. That makes the gallery both an activation layer and a partner channel powered by people who already know the product deeply.
Key metric to watch
Expanded from 600 templates to more than 5,000 in the reimagined gallery
Ian's take
From scaling consumer platforms across MENA and Southeast Asia, my default is to distrust growth work that only looks good in a slide. I would treat this as earning the right to be in the room, not dropping a campaign into a room. In community-led growth, the first job is to notice what people already care about, then bring a useful proof, tool, teardown, or question that makes the conversation better. For activation, the useful question is not whether users liked the page. It is whether they got to the first meaningful win faster. For this tactic, I would watch one clear growth signal before putting more time or budget behind it.
Action plan
- Define one narrow startup segment where creator-payout template gallery for distribution can create a measurable lift.
- Turn the tactic into one offer, page, campaign, or workflow for the Marketplace and Communities channel.
- Use the evidence from notion.com to set the first version of the message, format, and audience.
- Launch a small test for 7 to 14 days with one success metric: one measurable growth signal.
- Review the result, keep the winning message, remove weak variants, and turn the learning into a repeatable growth playbook.
Source-backed example
Notion rebuilt its Template Gallery into a central place for community creators, expanded it from hundreds to thousands of templates, and made it easier for creators to showcase and sell the ways they use the product.
Source: Notion Blog (notion.com)
GrowthDex source hub: Notion Blog
Last checked: 2026-05-25
Adjacent tactics in the same lane
If this page is close to your problem, these tactic pages usually belong in the same working set.
- Creator profile pages for template discovery same source · 3 shared channels · 1 shared stage
- Low-friction template submission with handle claim same source · 2 shared channels · 1 shared stage
- Remixable public source-file gallery 2 shared channels · 4 shared stages
- Cloneable showcase as product-education loop 2 shared channels · 4 shared stages
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Ian Goh has helped grow consumer platforms across Southeast Asia, India, and MENA. His work includes scaling Tiki to 100M+ users, doubling BIGO's MENA revenue in 7 months, and increasing OYO's direct booking share across 6 Southeast Asian markets.
- Helped scale Tiki to 100M+ users.
- Doubled BIGO's MENA revenue in 7 months.
- Raised OYO's direct booking share by 50% across 6 Southeast Asian markets.
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