Exploring Community Use Cases: Show & Tell Experiences

July 24, 2025

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In your community program, do you have a use case/show & tell/etc. style experience for members? If yes, I’m curious about:

Are people invited to participate or open to all?
Incentives, rewards, status/ranks, badges, points, swag, etc. given to folks who share?

Happy to discuss other items related to it, but looking to discuss this type of always-on experience more with peers 😊

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11 comments

Zach H.
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I bet Matt J. or Amanda R. might have some thoughts on “Show and Tell” for Relume and Gamma which are both generally in the design space (and are pretty)
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j z.
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Zach H. thanks for the email summary of these threads! Joel P. Yes Invited: At Stanford, we invite members to speak. At CapitalOne, we ask users to document success stories, on the road to becoming advocates Incentives: At ADP they give certificates and publicize leaderboards. I am considering personalized certificates they can post or add to their portfolio, see attached. Lemme know questions or if you want to chat.
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Joel P.
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Why would someone document a success story at CapitalOne then, essentially what’s in it for them? For CapitalOne and ADP, are these internal (employees) or external (customers, partners, non-customers, etc.) groups of people, j z. ?
Matt J.
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At the moment we have two levels - the #showcase channel which is open to all, and then our showcase on our website which is a submission into an airtable base and approved by Adam our co-founder. I’m trying to put a process around the showcase feature so its more clear to all what the criteria is. At the moment, no incentives but I could easily see that changing in the future.
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Joel P.
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Very cool, Matt J. — thanks for sharing! How active, per se, is the showcase channel in your community?
j z.
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Joel P. both internal and external. For internal tools, we still need to get prioritized. That is where internal champions speak up, but also help other users of the internal tools Matt J. how do you market showcases? I assume in app, but also outside like on Slack, websites and social.
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Matt J.
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Joel P. looking like 5-10 average per month. So nothing too crazy - room for improvement no doubt.
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Joel P.
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Better than 0/mo, Matt J. ! All progress is good progress in our work 👏 👏
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Matt J.
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j z. yeah occassionally the social media team will blast one out otherwise we used to have a monthly email blast that usually includes a new showcase item. Otherwise its a main nav item on relume.io and also we’ll occasionally link showcase sites to certain component preview pages.
j z.
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Matt J. thanks! Another tip is writing the showcase for user to approve. Or asking the same 3 questions so that they know where to start. All to help them get going ;)
Jennifer Y.
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Matt J. —
At the moment we have two levels - the #showcase channel which is open to all, and then our showcase on our website which is a submission into an airtable base and approved by Adam our co-founder.
This reminds me so much of what my colleague Oliver did with ecommerce/retail tech tools startups…I would love to hear more context!

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