Huddle Stories, Episode 026: "The Portfolio Career" & Community-powered Growth
This week we kicked off our first-ever entirely community-powered vetting process for new Huddle members. Some of the top Huddle builders are currently reviewing and will be accepting in the August 2023 Cohort from our waitlist.
We’re pumped. Top product designers are reviewing incoming product designers, marketers are reviewing in marketers, etc. We believe this decentralized process is a lower bias and high quality way to grow the Huddle community. And seeing the applicants coming through from the sidelines, we’re sure August is going to be one of the best cohorts yet.
Read on to hear about what’s being built this week inside Huddle – including a launch from TITLES, an AI/crypto startup, and Huddle co-founder Mike discussing “portfolio careers” and the power of relationships on a new podcast feature.
More soon,
Steph & Mike
Founders at Huddle
Shout-Out: TITLES
TITLES is AI-powered creative tools for publishing and remixing cryptomedia.
Their vision is to create a community-powered ecosystem of the world's most powerful and culturally relevant creative tooling - for free.
Yesterday, TITLES launched SOURCE. Bundled into an image editor, SOURCE gives everyone a wide variety of creative media and artist-trained AI models to create with. Meanwhile, SOURCE attributes all media and models used within a composition where their creators receive a split of the new asset's proceeds.
The beta is full BUT the TITLES team opened up some invites for the Huddle community. Get access here.
👉 Are you a founder? Post your project on Huddle today, meet vetted designers and builders by Friday. Or book a free team-building workshop with us.
Tune in: Portfolio Career Podcast
Your network and relationships are critical to your career and life. For Mike, hosting dinners has been really impactful and helped him start Huddle. In this episode, Mike shares specific approaches and tactics that he uses to build relationships and stay connected with a lot of people in a meaningful way.
Some highlights:
3 trends that Mike is seeing about startups and flexible work: people are leaving big tech to freelance, those same people are starting businesses, and people being more open to building their company flexibly.
“I really believe that life is lived in relationship. So if you want to change your life, you really do have to change the people you talk to every day.”
The “Portfolio Career” and how 25%+ of the Huddle community hold full-time jobs while huddling on the side.
Huddle Love
Huddle Member Sachin Bhargava:
“I’ve been watching the journey of Huddle and I'm really proud of you guys. I’m excited to be a part of it.”
In case you’re new here…
Huddle is a community of 1200+ designers, builders, and creatives that work on startups together. Think of us as vetted collaborators in your pocket. On Huddle, getting a team is as easy as posting a tweet.
From pre-launch to Series B, startups of all sizes are using Huddle like a team extender. Get design help, pitch decks, engineering, branding, marketing, advisory, and more with cross-functional teams that spin up in <1day.
Coming soon: HuddleUp
We’ve been quietly rolling out a new way for companies to use Huddle – a membership called HuddleUp. With a HuddleUp membership, companies get lower platform fees and can hire Huddlers off-platform.
Zero platform fee on your first teammate
50% off platform fees on two or more teammates
Hire huddlers off-platform with zero conversion fee
We’ve onboarded some of our largest customers onto HuddleUp and will be making this feature available for all companies starting August 7th. Send a note to josh@huddle.works if you’re interested in getting access.
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Thank you for mentioning the amazing conversation Mike and I had together!