Stories, insights, and updates for creators and community builders on Circus. What we're learning, what we're building, and where we're headed.
Existing platforms were built to extract value from creators, not to empower them. This is the problem Circus is trying to fix, and why starting from scratch was the only honest option.
Read the full post →Communities on Circus are deliberately different from feeds-with-comments. Here's how we think about what a real community needs — and how the platform is built to support it.
Read the full post →A first-person look at the three-layer content moderation pipeline behind Circus — hash tables, AWS Comprehend, and AWS Rekognition — and why I chose managed ML over building my own.
Read the full post →The revenue model isn't a feature — it's a first-principles decision. Here's why we're building the Creator Fund the way we are, and what we're still figuring out.
Read the full post →The gap between something worth sharing and actually sharing it is mostly psychological. Here's a clear-eyed look at why people freeze — and what actually helps.
Read the full post →An honest look at where Circus is right now — what the platform is, how it's structured, and what "coming soon" actually means for a team building carefully from scratch.
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