🤯 Online Community (R)evolution

In today's edition:

• Online communities: What’s going on?

• AI Agents are becoming… Autonomous?!

• 3 uncommon places to find work online

💡 THE BIG IDEA

Are online communities dying out?

From newsletters and podcasts to hobbyist clubs and emerging tech startups, everyone wants to “build a community.”
It’s not a buzzword anymore — it’s a business strategy.

But the tools haven’t kept up.

• Most communities use a chaotic mix of Discord, Slack, Substack, Notion, Telegram, or Google Docs

• Less than 15% of members in online communities actively participate

• And switching between platforms creates friction and drop-off

Enter: Nounspace

Instead of bouncing between five platforms and 15 Google Docs, Nounspace gives you one clean, modular hub — plus a mobile app — for your community.

You can embed a social feed, host gated chat rooms, add custom tabs, and fully wrap it in your own branding and domain. Whatever fits your vibe.

It’s not just about organizing your chaos — it’s built to express your identity.

Like what Notion did for team workflows: turning scattered systems into something cohesive, customizable, and actually enjoyable to use.

So… why isn’t everyone using it?

It’s not the tech.
It’s behavior.

It’s the same trap a lot of great startups fall into.
Many don’t make it out.
But the ones that do, go big.

In this case, most founders still treat community as a “nice to have.” When they finally focus on it, they reach for what’s familiar: Discord, Slack, Substack.

This situation isn’t unique to Nounspace — it’s a startup rite of passage.

Twitter spent years as a confusing status-update app before the culture caught up. Dropbox had great infrastructure but needed a viral video to explain why syncing mattered. Slack had to convince companies that team communications didn’t have to suck (debatable).

Nounspace is walking the same tightrope: great product, wrong behavior.

Too flexible? Maybe. Too early? Possibly.

But it’s betting big that creator, educator, and startup communities are finally ready for a change.

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