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Circle retweeted
August was supposed to be a slow month :/
Shipping today:
→ AI website builder
→ Live reactions
→ Onboarding checklists
→ Mobile video recorder
→ Custom member directory
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Circle retweeted
Community, distribution and taste are the biggest moats you can have right now.
I invited @sidyadav, co-founder of @circleapp, to break it down on the podcast 👇
- Why community is the moat
- How to actually build one
- How to win as a creator from 2026 onward
- Attention vs Distribution
- Why creators and community owners should be thinking about LTV
and much more!
AI will change a lot however it will never replace community and IRL experiences - I think both become even more valuable from here.
Episode out now, wherever you listen to podcasts.
(Links below)
Circle retweeted
We’re seeing Circle shift from a “community platform” to a “digital business platform” and it is glorious.
A few months ago, it occurred to me that calling Circle a community platform does our product a disservice.
Businesses on Circle use different words to describe themselves, including:
- Community business
- Creator business
- Coaching business
- Training business
- Events business
- Courses business
… etc
What they have in common is a community with a transformational outcome worth paying for, but honestly - it shouldn’t matter to us what you call it.
There is no platform in the world that lets you:
- Host live calls like Zoom
- Offer a feed like a Facebook Group
- Network your members like LinkedIn
- Send emails like Mailchimp
- Create workflows like N8N
- Chat in channels like Slack
- Run events like Luma
- Process payments like Stripe
- Sell courses like Kajabi
- Build websites like Webflow
- Host videos like Vimeo
Do we have every single feature those platforms do?
Nope, and I don’t even think that would make for a good product.
What we have is the 80/20 that most people need, and we offer something none of those platforms can:
An experience where everything connects to each other and just works; now with an AI harness.
1M+ digital businesses, $100B+ GMV, LFG
Circle retweeted
nobody knows the journey of content creators and brands engaging their communities better than the @circleapp team, and this set of new offerings to help creators build a business around them is remarkable.
🔥@sidyadav and team!
Circle retweeted
Circle's platform helps our community drive the journalism - letting our audience participate in the stories. By connecting us with people on the ground, experts, and engaged communities, Circle makes our reporting smarter, deeper, and more human.
If you’re a creator wanting to go deeper with your audience , check out everything they just announced below! #circlepartner
Circle retweeted
This is the best AI creator economy product I've seen
You can now vibe code an entire digital business that makes you money
This will unlock hundreds of thousands of new coaching, community & digital product entrepreneurs
@circleapp just rebuilt themselves to be AI-native
Circle retweeted
I've been sitting on a secret all week and it's honestly killing me. I can’t tell you yet… so lemme tell you a story instead.
Almost 10 years ago I met a guy named Rudy. 👇
Circle retweeted
I spent the past two days at @ColinandSamir’s @thepublishpress with 500+ creators.
It’s hard to express what these couple days felt like.
As someone who has spent the past decade building platforms for creators and entrepreneurs, there is truly no better reward than getting to talk to smart and creative folks about what Circle can do for their future.
A few years ago, I immigrated from NZ to NYC with the dream of building a tech company that scales and has a meaningful impact on the world.
After starting my career at Teachable, I got hooked on building software for creators.
I realized that building deeply consumer or enterprise tech is not what excited me; I was most motivated by the reward of building platforms for people who influence others with their creativity and spirit.
I loved the idea that a platform I helped build could help them make a living, and impact the lives of their audience.
When we started Circle, we chose to focus on community as a result of our belief in an added dimension:
Creators who build true community transform people, and those transformations in turn help them build durable businesses.
We watched as creators who built true community made both money and impact, and got off the content hamster wheel (at least, partially)
Being able to share this aspect of my journey on stage at the event felt like one of those unique moments my life has been leading up to.
For the rest of the day, I floated into a series of conversations that warmed me to no end.
This involved meaningful chats with tens of Circle customers - so many of whom approached me or the team to say thanks and to tell us about their future plans.
Behind this very special day were two creators I’ve been greatly influenced by for quite some time: @ColinandSamir.
These fellas have helped define an entire industry, including aspects of Circle’s own vision.
In the process, they've built a true community of their own: a community of creators.
A part of this community got to experience Circle by joining the Press Publish community, and many seemed to already have communities on Circle of their own.
Super grateful to them for choosing Circle as their platform of choice!
Circle retweeted
You can now run fully public webinars on Circle!
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Circle retweeted
Finally moving to Circle!
First challenge: move my 3,000+ paid subs to Circle (by making them click the link to actually go there).
Then onto the next challenge of bringing 30,000+ new members to Circle (without chaos) in 2 years.
Then what? 300,000+ people?
Circle retweeted
Excited to host @rubenhassid on Circle 💥
Ruben writes 'How to AI', the most popular AI newsletter in the world
Circle retweeted
Introducing the Circle MCP.
You can connect your community to Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini and use it to look up members, queue up posts, analyze threads, create spaces, develop courses, send DMs, bulk-create tags, and 100+ other things from your own AI ecosystem.
It comes with both read AND write access, which makes it a lot more fun than other MCPs!
Circle retweeted
March product update: a world member map, video recorder, member 2FA, upsell customizations, and more.
Not bad for an "off month" as our teams prepare for the biggg launch next quarter!
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