Circle

What it does

I realized I no longer had a place online to casually update the few people I’m actually close to because everything felt like posting to an audience, even private accounts. So I built Circle: a tiny social space meant only for your real circle. No followers, no discovery, no performance; just small daily updates that disappear. Circle only works if you join with 2–5 people you already talk to. It is intentionally not for meeting new people.

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  Circle2020 · circle.so · ▲753

  The modern community platform for creators

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  What do you think of my new social app?2022 · oncircles.com · ▲76

  Hey there, First time posting on Hacker News in about 2 years! The reason I’m posting is that I thought I’d write about the product I’ve been building, in hopes it resonates with people. Why build yet another social app? Because I deleted almost all social media around 3/4 years ago as it was just net negative on my life. There was very little that was truly interesting, I didn’t care about looking good to other people and because of the ‘media’ and ads, the apps were all designed to make me spend too much time for what I was getting. I hated it and what it meant for people’s behaviour,…

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  Circle2017 · ▲106

  Connect with people near you

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  CircleNov 2025 · apps.apple.com · ▲126

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  Circles2022 · oncircles.com · ▲86

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