Our story

We hated missing
the good stuff.

So we built a way to make sure no one does. CommunityHighlights was born from the frustration of scrolling for hours and still somehow missing the post everyone was talking about.

How it started

A Monday morning problem

It was 2021. Our co-founder Sarah was managing three online communities simultaneously. Every Monday, colleagues would arrive at standups referencing some post she had missed — a debate that broke the internet on Saturday, a thread with 800 comments she never saw.

She tried setting up alerts. RSS feeds. Browser bookmarks. Nothing worked. The good stuff kept slipping by while the noise kept arriving.

So she called Marcus, handed him a napkin with a rough idea, and said: "Just surface the stuff people are actually talking about. That is all."

"I did not want a summary. I wanted to feel like I was there — at the right moment, reading the right thread."

Timeline

From napkin to 48K subscribers

2021 Q3

The napkin idea

Sarah and Marcus spent two weekends building a manual curation system. 12 subscribers, all friends and family.

2022 Q1

First viral digest

One edition got shared 400 times in 48 hours. Subscribers jumped from 200 to 4,100 in a week. The servers did not enjoy this.

2023 Q2

10K milestone

Launched the Trending Hub web experience. Added real-time post tracking. Hired our first dedicated curator, Priya.

2024 Q4

Hall of Fame launched

Introduced blurred comment previews. Click-through rates increased by 340%. We are not sorry about the FOMO.

2025 NOW

48,000+ and counting

Serving communities across tech, business, creativity, and culture. New categories launching this summer.

What we stand for

Our values, not buzzwords

Honesty over hype

We show you posts people are genuinely reacting to — not sponsored content, not brand-safe picks. Real debate, real reactions.

Community first, always

Every post we feature links directly back to the original creator and community. We surface; we never steal.

Privacy by default

We never sell your data. We never track you across the web. Your inbox is yours — we are just visitors who knock first.

Curation over quantity

We would rather send 3 exceptional posts than 30 mediocre ones. Your attention is the most valuable thing you can give us.

The team

The people behind the posts

Sarah Chen

Sarah Chen

Co-founder · Head of Curation

Former community manager at two Y Combinator startups. Has personally read an estimated 2 million comments. No regrets.

Marcus Thompson

Marcus Thompson

Co-founder · CTO

Built the engagement-tracking engine from scratch in a weekend. Still running on that original codebase. Do not tell the investors.

Priya Reddy

Priya Reddy

Senior Curator · Community Lead

Former journalist turned community obsessive. She decides if a post is interesting or genuinely unhinged. Usually both.

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