<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Circus Blog</title><description>Stories, insights, and updates from Circus Corporation.</description><link>https://circus.app/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>Building from scratch: why we started Circus</title><link>https://circus.app/blog/building-circus/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://circus.app/blog/building-circus/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What makes a community on Circus different</title><link>https://circus.app/blog/communities/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://circus.app/blog/communities/</guid><description>Communities on Circus are deliberately different from feeds-with-comments. Here&apos;s how we think about what a real community needs — and how the platform is built to support it.</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Why I chose AWS for content moderation</title><link>https://circus.app/blog/content-moderation/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://circus.app/blog/content-moderation/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How we think about creator economics</title><link>https://circus.app/blog/creator-economics/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://circus.app/blog/creator-economics/</guid><description>The revenue model isn&apos;t a feature — it&apos;s a first-principles decision. Here&apos;s why we&apos;re building the Creator Fund the way we are, and what we&apos;re still figuring out.</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Why people don&apos;t post (and how to break through it)</title><link>https://circus.app/blog/fear-of-posting/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://circus.app/blog/fear-of-posting/</guid><description>The gap between something worth sharing and actually sharing it is mostly psychological. Here&apos;s a clear-eyed look at why people freeze — and what actually helps.</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What we&apos;re building and when</title><link>https://circus.app/blog/what-were-building/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://circus.app/blog/what-were-building/</guid><description>An honest look at where Circus is right now — what the platform is, how it&apos;s structured, and what &quot;coming soon&quot; actually means for a team building carefully from scratch.</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>