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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.
You Don't Own the Community You Built
Skool, Circle, Discourse, Gainsight, Salesforce and Gravyty are all selling the same thing - a place for your people to gather. The difference is who keeps the keys.
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.
The Land Grab for Communities the Algorithm Can't Touch
Zapnito, Almabase, Disciple, XenForo, Gainsight and CMNTY are quietly selling brands a way to own their audience instead of renting it from a feed. Here is how one market splits into six very different bets.
Bevy Made Community a Line Item the Fortune 500 Pays For
Bevy started as software for running meetups. Now the Palo Alto company sells Twitch, Salesforce and Adobe on the idea that a well-run community is a measurable business asset - and it has just bolted a squad of AI agents onto the pitch.
Gradual Runs The Community Behind OpenAI And Perplexity
The startup collapsed events, courses, and forums into one branded platform - and quietly won over the AI labs everyone else is chasing. Founder Jerry Li built it out of a side-project mailing list for engineers.
Commsor Bet That Your Network Was the Product
The community-software startup spent six years arguing that trust, not cold email, is how companies actually grow - then folded the idea, and itself, into The Swarm.