✨ New blog post ✨ If you’re working with #Rails, you might have overheard some discussions about @storybookjs recently. Wondering what the fuss is all about? Read along! orbit.love/blog/im-a-rails-d… (huge thanks to @theleastbad for the convo & nudging me into writing this💜)

Today, we’re excited to announce that two space-faring companies are combining their powers: Orbit is joining @getpostman! At Postman, we’ll continue working on what we love: helping companies build awesome developer communities. Read more here 👇 orbit.love/blog/orbit-is-joi…

A community’s power lies not just in members but in shared knowledge. Harness that power with our new tool, Community Search, a unified embedded search experience that pulls results from: ➡️ Discord ➡️ Github ➡️ Discourse ➡️ Your docs …and more! 👀 hubs.li/Q028n7Mb0

We’ve been ranked #3 most valuable tool in #DevRel in the 10th annual DevRel Survey from @stateofdevrel ! 🥳😊🎉💜 We wrote about how we got here and where we’re going next. Check it out - and RSVP to our next event - here ⬇️ hubs.li/Q027NclD0

I’m going solo! I've spent 15 years in founding marketing roles, and now I'm excited to help other early-stage startups navigate 0-to-1 marketing and growth. I'm offering consulting services on a fractional or freelance basis. Helping with things like: • Finding product-market fit for a new product or business. • Establishing positioning and creating messaging frameworks. • Scaling up marketing for an existing product that has some traction. • Reviewing and optimizing onboarding flows. • Creating content, marketing assets, and campaigns. • Hiring a marketing leader or team members. Please share this post, or let me know if I can help you or someone you know.

Today, our new Programs product is live for all Orbit users 🚀 Now you can: 📋 Accept applications ✅ Vet and approve members 👋 Scale member onboarding 🙌 Accept contributions ✉️ Message members ➕ and so much more Learn more & try it 👇 orbit.love/programs

Just dropped: a 3-part series on Champion Programs. You'll learn: 💪 Perks of partnering up with your MVPs 🖊️ Your winning plan 🏆 Launching and growing your Champions Programs Ready to get started? 👇 orbit.love/blog/what-is-a-ch…

In which @_delete44 and I did a lot of soul searching to build a browser extension that is extensible, yet feels native to the websites it’s embedded in 🤔💭💡✨ We’re proud of the result, and given it’s open source we figured we might as well share our learnings!

Here's a quick walk-thru video 📽️

I’m really excited to finally ship this! We’ve been working hard towards getting your community data right where you need it, when you need it. Plus it’s open source! Here’s the repo: github.com/orbit-love/orbit-… (Note: it’s currently best viewed in 2D through regular eyes)

Announcing Orbit Champions Program Manager! 📣 This has been one of our most requested features and we’re excited to show it off. Now, any company can build a best-in-class champions program with ease. No more spreadsheets, no more hacking together forms and lists. Manage the full champion lifecycle in one place. Learn more: orbit.love/champions

Community builders are busy, so it can be hard to reflect on and celebrate wins. So today we released the 2022 Year in Community report, summarizing key stats from the year in a fun and shareable format 🥳 Login to your Orbit account (app.orbit.love) to see yours!

The Stripe App Marketplace is now open for publishing. Learn how to launch your app. ⤵️ stripe.com/docs/stripe-apps/…

Committing your JavaScript dependencies’ built files to own the libs.

Ready for your close-up? Day 6 of #AdventureCalendar brings our new YouTube integration, which imports comments on your channel’s public videos 🎞️ And, it pulls in historical comments on previous videos as well, so you never miss a convo. Check it out 👉 adventure.orbit.love/day-06

🎶 On the first day of #AdventureCalendar, Orbit gave to me, webhooks that are super fancy 💅 Now you can send any member in your workspace to any other system of record, like @ConvertKit, @CustomerIO and more. Read the details 👇 adventure.orbit.love

I wrote something. And this one I'm especially proud of. It's about those moments where I ask myself: how can you not be romantic about programming? thorstenball.com/blog/2020/0…

I think my favorite thing on the internet is new fonts. These look fantastic!

standards are fun

First time I use a browser without an ad blocker in years and the “google tax” is a disgrace. Searching for “helpscout” I have to scroll down A FULL PAGE to finally see the result I’m looking for. Ads look like normal results. How did it come to this? How is this acceptable?

✨New Product Update: Send Twitter DMs directly from Orbit Today, we’ve brought the power of a personal touch into Orbit with our new Twitter DM feature. • Answer questions • Shout-out contributors • Jump-start conversations Learn more 👇 hubs.li/Q01rhKpN0