I created a new Google Form and Google List to try to capture all the different Instagram accounts of people shooting with Ricoh GRs in hopes of bringing the GR community together. I like to browse the r/ricohGR subreddit and there are posts every now and then for a call to share Instagram accounts. Those posts are pretty good about getting people to share their Instagram accounts, but they eventually get buried. I wanted to create a static living list that can grow over time.
The idea is to have folks submit their user name, location and what they shoot via the Google Form. The Google Form is connected to a spreadsheet list so that after a person submits their information they automatically show up in the list. Then anyone who is looking for other Ricoh GR folks can browse the list and follow each other. This would foster a GR community in the long run as well as have a single source for people to go to.
The first place that made the most sense to share this little project was the r/ricohGR subreddit. When I posted the links I really thought more people were going to jump onto the idea given that the subreddit has 46K weekly visitors. However, 13 hours in, I'm the only one to sign up and the post has two upvotes 😂. I guess this wasn't the jackpot I was looking for.
Now that it's out there I hope that it will grow over time. I'll need to find other places to post the links to eventually but I'm going to give it some time to see if it will naturally pick up some steam.