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Trust Is the New Growth Hack
A SF Tech Week salon with nothing - no venue, no sponsors, no agenda set in stone. Just builders talking about the only thing that matters now: how to earn trust.
Everyone is building. Almost no one is using.
The maker-to-user ratio has flipped. Thousands of products ship every week, but attention & trust haven't grown with them. In 2026, the bottleneck isn't your product - it's whether a community believes you.
So here's the experiment: an event with zero budget, zero sponsors, zero fixed speakers. If we can fill a room (or a park bench) with people who genuinely want to talk about community-led growth, that is the proof that trust beats everything else.
What we'll dig into:
The trust gap - why being a great maker no longer guarantees a single user, & what actually does
Community as the growth engine - how Product Hunt , GitHub , Reddit , & private builder groups work as one connected system of trust signals, not isolated channels
The playbook - how each launch artifact (a trending day, a starred repo, a real thread) becomes proof the next community can build on
Real stories - what's working (and flopping) across 300+ product launches
This is for you if you're:
Building an AI product & planning a launch
A maker who's shipped - & learned what didn't work
A growth/community operator with lessons to share
Want to speak? No speakers booked. If you've run launches, grown communities, or have a real story (wins or failures), sign up & take the mic. We'll figure out the format together.
Venue: TBD. Could be a coffee shop, a park, someone's office. We'll pick a spot based on headcount. Location drops 24h before.
Hosted by EPIC Connector - a global AI founder community that's helped 300+ products launch & earn trust across Product Hunt, GitHub, & builder communities worldwide.
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