About The Kan Do Creators Community

Watch what YOU Kan Do!

The YouTube help and growth community built by Andrew Kan and Ike Do, for creators who want real strategy and honest feedback from people still making videos.

We are creators first, still making videos and growing channels right alongside you. We run live group coaching calls, review your content before you publish, and teach the KANDO Method that has helped grow over 15 million subscribers across YouTube.

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Andrew Kan and Ike Do, founders of The Kan Do Creators Community
Andrew Kan and Ike Do at an industry event

The Kan Do Creators Community

Why we built The KDCC.

After five and a half years at TubeBuddy helping creators grow, Andrew Kan and Ike Do still wanted to help creators. So they did the obvious thing: they looked at who nobody else was serving.

Founded 2021

A YouTube help and growth community, run by creators who are still creating.

Big brands have agencies. Beginners have a thousand "how to start on YouTube" videos. The creators in the middle have been on their own.

Now they don't have to figure it out alone.

Andrew Kan, Co-Founder of The Kan Do Creators Community

Andrew Kan

Co-Founder · YouTube Strategist & Consultant

Grew TubeBuddy's channel from 6,000 to 530,000+ subscribers and helped earn 12 Play Buttons (2 Diamond, 8 Silver, 2 Gold) across channels including StreamYard. As YouTube & Video Manager for Salesforce Global Recruitment Marketing, Andrew Kan led video strategy for the Salesforce Careers channel, and while at TubeBuddy he contributed to YouTube strategy work for Fox Sports, BBC, Paramount, and Family Feud. He has spoken at VidCon, VidSummit, and Adobe events.

Ike Do, Co-Founder of The Kan Do Creators Community

Ike Do

Co-Founder · Community + Newsletter Content

Grew TubeBuddy's Discord to 15,000+ creators and scaled the forums past 100,000 members. Ike Do writes articles about YouTube growth read by millions of creators. Today, Ike runs monetized YouTube channels of their own and leads The KDCC Discord community.

We built The KDCC because we are still creating, still growing, and we wanted a place where YouTube creators get the same level of strategy and feedback we give each other.

What drives The KDCC

The Kan Do Creators Community’s mission, vision & values.

Mission

Our mission is to inform, entertain, and inspire creatives from all walks of life to tell their stories. With a simple belief that if one person can, they can too.

Vision

Our vision is to make content creation easy: to build a community where people can come to find and discover how to create their video content online.

The values we hold ourselves to

  1. 01

    Community Trust

    Creators entrust us with their time, their money, their businesses, and their creative futures. Thousands of creatives around the world (individuals, startups, and large enterprises) have joined. When we mess up, miss a deadline, or slow down, it matters. We take that responsibility seriously.

    Andrew Kan and Ike Do with the Kan Do Creators Community
    The community that trusts us
  2. 02

    Think Cost

    We know the less you have, the more important it is to shop smart.

    A free full-length KDCC lesson on YouTube
    Real value, zero cost
  3. 03

    Always Learning

    It's important to never stop learning. We aim to learn one thing new each time we create. It's ok to make mistakes, as long as we learn from it.

    Rob Balasabas with The Kan Do Creators Community
    Learning alongside the industry
  4. 04

    Empower Others

    It's important to help other creatives achieve their goals both personally and globally. If we have the ability to help, and it takes nothing from us, then it should be done.

    A Kan Do Creators Community membership group coaching call
    Helping members reach their goals
  5. 05

    Learn by Doing

    We are more capable of learning about something when we perform the action. Learning by doing is more memorable, personal, and builds success skills.

    Andrew Kan learning hands-on
    Doing the work, hands-on
  6. 06

    Every Winner Was Once a Beginner

    Creating can be frustrating, personal, draining, and confusing. We have been there, and it's important to show empathy and act with respect. We are all trying to create the best content we can.

    Andrew Kan mentoring creators at VidCon
    Meeting beginners where they are
  7. 07

    Give

    Give to yourself and the community.

    $2,000+ raised for charity
    100,000s of people helped

We hold ourselves to all of it.

Every value above is written into our Code of Ethics: transparency, no hype, no gimmicks, and real respect for creators.

Read our Code of Ethics

How we teach growth

The KANDO Method.

The framework we teach inside the community: five steps you run before you ever hit record. Together, they spell Kan Do.

  1. K

    Knowledge

    Know your topic well enough to teach it before you hit record.

  2. A

    Audience

    Know who this video is for and what you are helping them with.

  3. N

    New(s)

    Find your angle and stay aware of YouTube algorithm and feature changes.

  4. D

    Data

    Use the YouTube Trends tab and your analytics to inform your next video.

  5. O

    Optimization

    Build your YouTube title, thumbnail, and full packaging before you record.

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From TubeBuddy to The KDCC

How We Started Helping Creators Grow

From TubeBuddy to The Kan Do Creators Community, this is not just our story. It is the story of every creator who told us they needed something better. Here is how it all came together.

  1. Where It All Started

    Andrew Kan joined TubeBuddy as Employee Number One. From day one the mission was simple: help YouTube creators succeed. In his first year, Andrew grew TubeBuddy's YouTube channel from 6,000 to over 100,000 subscribers. Over the years he brought on Ike Do and Stanley Orchard, the people who would help build everything that came next.

  2. Building Communities That Mattered

    Ike Do joined TubeBuddy in 2019 and the community took off. They grew the Discord to 15,000+ creators and helped Andrew, who had built the TubeBuddy forums from zero, scale them past 100,000 members. The two became the people creators went to for real answers. Ike left in April 2021, and Andrew followed a month later. But the work was far from over.

  3. The KDCC Launches

    So we built the place we wished had existed when we were starting out. The Kan Do Creators Community opened as a home for YouTube creators who wanted real strategy, honest feedback, the KANDO Method, and a Discord built on support over ego.

  4. Newsletter and Blog Launch

    Not everyone could pay to learn, so we made sure no one had to. The Kan Do Newsletter and our blog put YouTube strategy, platform news, and creator tools in front of every creator for free, member or not.

  5. Membership Launches

    We did not plan to launch a membership. Our community asked for it. Creators wanted structure and accountability, so the Knowledge and Authority tiers gave them live group coaching calls, SEO reviews, and guaranteed feedback on their thumbnails and titles.

  6. Discord Grows

    Our YouTube Help Discord crossed 2,500+ creators giving daily feedback, sharing wins, and holding each other accountable. The room we always wanted finally existed, and it kept growing.

  7. A New Look

    By 2026 we had outgrown the logo we started with. The work had caught attention, with partnerships from OpusClip, Adobe Express, TubeSpanner, Elgato, and StreamYard, and the old salmon and blue look could not carry where the community was heading. So we rebranded. Meet KDCC: a new color system, new typography, and a design language built for everything we do now, video, podcasts, live streams, the newsletter, merch, and this Discord. Our values and our vision did not change, only the look, with a new tagline to carry it: Watch What YOU Kan Do!

  8. Right Now

    The Future

    You just read our entire story, and that means something to us. What has never changed is the belief we started with: every winner was once a beginner, and creators grow faster together than alone. That is what Watch What YOU Kan Do! is really about, a call to every creator here, and to us, to keep proving it. Andrew Kan, Ike Do, and Stanley Orchard did not build The KDCC to chase a logo or a follower count. We built it because when people help each other get better, everyone wins. What comes next starts with you.

Your chapter starts here.

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