Quora Space link curation before original posts
When building a niche feed, curate the best outside links first if the community responds better to useful industry selection than to your own posts.
Why this can grow a startup
Founders often assume every channel should publish more original thought leadership. SaaStr’s Cloud Daily experiment suggests a different path: in some feeds, selection beats creation. Lemkin wrote that Cloud Daily grew fast by sharing a few interesting cloud stories a day and that links performed better than posts or questions for that community. The growth lesson is not to copy the format blindly. It is to test what the audience rewards. For niche B2B categories, a founder who curates the best five things every day can become a trusted router before asking readers to consume owned content.
Source-backed example
SaaStr used its Cloud Daily Quora Space as a curated feed for three to four cloud stories a day and reported that links performed best for that community.
Source-reported evidence
Source: SaaStr: Cloud Daily lessons
SaaStr reported Cloud Daily reached 100K+ followers and nearly 7M views in six months, while link posts outperformed original posts and questions.
Attributed to the cited source; GrowthDex has not independently verified it. Use this as context, not as a forecast, benchmark, or recommended target.
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When to use it
Use this when Quora, Newsletter, Community is relevant to curation, community feed, b2b media and you can run a bounded test with a free budget.
When not to use it
Do not use it as a substitute for customer evidence, a clear owner, or a measurable stop condition. Local platform rules and market behavior still need checking.
How to do it
- Choose one target segment and define the exact next action this tactic should prompt.
- Adapt the tactic to Quora and Newsletter, using evidence from SaaStr: Cloud Daily lessons as context—not as a promised result.
- Record a baseline for: Target users from this channel who complete the intended first action. Set a guardrail that would make you pause the test.
- Run a narrow pilot and choose a test window that fits the normal decision or use cycle; do not scale before you have observed the full cycle.
- Compare the signal with its baseline. Scale only if the intended action improves without crossing the guardrail; otherwise revise one variable or stop and record what you learned.
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