# 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.

- Canonical HTML: https://growth.iangoh.com/growth-ideas/quora-space-link-curation-before-original-posts/
- Source: [saastr.com](https://www.saastr.com/cloud-daily-from-saastr-crosses-100000-followers-lessons-learned/)
- GrowthDex source hub: [SaaStr: Cloud Daily lessons](/sources/saastr-cloud-daily-lessons-saastr-com/)
- Last checked: 2026-06-07T06:04:38.000Z
- Rarity: rare
- Budget: free
- Channels: Quora, Newsletter, Community
- Stages: curation, community feed, b2b media, topic authority


## Why this can grow

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.

## 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. My bias is to treat this as a small market test first. Make the audience narrow, make the promise concrete, and let the first real response decide whether it deserves more work. I would run it small enough to learn quickly, then only scale the parts that real users repeat, save, reply to, or buy from. For this tactic, I would watch one clear growth signal before putting more time or budget behind it.

## Action plan

1. Define one narrow startup segment where quora space link curation before original posts can create a measurable lift.
2. Turn the tactic into one offer, page, campaign, or workflow for the Quora and Newsletter channel.
3. Use the evidence from saastr.com to set the first version of the message, format, and audience.
4. Launch a small test for 7 to 14 days with one success metric: one measurable growth signal.
5. Review the result, keep the winning message, remove weak variants, and turn the learning into a repeatable growth playbook.

## 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.

## Adjacent tactics in the same lane

- [Quora one-loved-answer-a-day corpus](/growth-ideas/quora-one-loved-answer-a-day-corpus/) - 2 shared channels
- [First 1000 monthly reset referral rewards](/growth-ideas/first1000-monthly-reset-referral-rewards/) - 2 shared channels

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- [The answer page is a sales call that does not end](/blog/the-answer-page-is-a-sales-call-that-does-not-end/) - answer-engine growth, founder-led content, developer marketing

## Advisory

If you want help turning this into a working growth system, Ian Goh offers advisory at https://iangoh.com/advisory.