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I think this is interesting. Since the original comment was from a producthunt perspective, I was thinking that in that case there was a community. Maybe a strategy is that there is a community that communicates already but this communication is spread across various mediums and not efficient?

Depends on how you look at the word "community". One definition of the word, "a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals," can dictate that a community can exist among those who have not yet met, but are of the same community through a shared interests / goals.

There is a sort of proto community. A community that wants to be, but isn't because nobody started doing that yet.

The point of it of course is that, if such a proto community doesn't exist, its going to be very difficult for a community to grow.