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LifeWeb 360 Built a Social Network for the Moment Nobody Wants to Post About - Then Found Its Real Customer
A class project became a gentler alternative to the obituary page, then a surprisingly effective alumni-engagement tool. LifeWeb 360's path from free family memorials to HistoryIT's MemoryPort is a case study in letting the strongest use case rewrite the business.
Everybody Wants To Own Your Crowd
Uscreen, Bevy, Almabase, Personify, Zendesk and Gradual are all selling the same promise - a place to gather your people - and quietly disagreeing about who those people actually belong to.
The Land Grab for Communities Social Media Left Behind
Almabase, Hivebrite, Gravyty, Zapnito, Threado, Khoros and a pack of forum-software veterans are all selling one promise - a place your people gather that you actually own. The market got crowded, then it started eating itself.
Gravyty
The Boston company teaching universities and nonprofits how to raise more money with less busywork - by handing fundraisers an AI that writes the first draft.
Almabase
The alumni engagement and fundraising platform helping schools and universities turn thousands of graduates into donors - without adding a single staff member.
Hustle
Hustle is a San Francisco-based text and mobile messaging platform built for one-to-one conversations at scale. Founded in 2014, it lets organizations reach supporters, students, members and voters through peer-to-peer texting, broadcast SMS, a voice dialer and in-message video - with humans, not autodialers, pressing send. Widely used by political campaigns, nonprofits, higher-education fundraising teams and labor unions, Hustle has powered more than a billion messages and, since April 2026, is independent and employee-owned.