Torc's Discord has 4,500 active members but hasn't placed any jobs there, while the platform reaches two million technologists. The speaker questions whether that scale is community or just a database, and notes some users only want job alerts, not belonging.
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I think the biggest issue that we're trying to solve right now at Torc is what is community? Like, prime example, all right, we have over— we have close to 4,500 members in our Discord, right? Are we getting anybody on our Discord a job? Not that I'm aware of yet, right? But then we have like 2 million plus technologists on our platform with Torc. Does that count as community? Is that a database? Then there's numbers like that we're using where it's like, hey, like at least half of the folks have like at least filled out the profile. But then it's like somebody fills out your profile, like, is that community? Does everybody want to be in community? Like some people just don't want to be in community. Like some people just want a job. Like some people just want to open up an email. Some people just maybe want to get a text message from you if you have a job for them. To me, in my opinion, I think community is everything.