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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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)
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
1. Circle AI
An AI partner that builds, runs, and grows your digital business with you.
Describe your dream business and bring it to life with Circle AI.
Building the perfect home for your digital products should take minutes, not months.
Meet Circle AI.
An AI partner that helps you build, run, and grow your digital business.
See it in action:
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'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
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
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. 👇