Microcosm is modernizing the forum experience to meet the expectations of users in the age of Facebook and Twitter.
We know online communities are great places, and we want to be a part of making yours a success.
We help communities grow by giving end-users the tools they need to geek out over their interests.
We take care of the tech.
It is our job to just make it work with no technical knowledge required. We make everything feel intuitive and natural, from creating a site to replying to a comment.
Not everything is a post within a thread.
Our forums support events, galleries, classifieds, reviews, articles, Q&A, polls and more. You no longer need to use other on-line services to help fulfill the needs of your community.
No more pinch and zoom.
Every forum we host is mobile friendly from day one. We also provide developers with a full API to encourage apps to suit the needs of your community.
We make your site look really good.
Gone are the days of forums being ugly. We make it super easy to customize your site so that it reflects the values of the community and the content looks great.
Organizing events could not be easier. No more trying to coerce people to use Facebook, Google Calendar or Meetup. Your community is already on the site and so the tools to create and run an event are where your community are.
Whether you need to put tables, lists, videos, pictures or other rich content in your comments, we make it super easy. If your primary tool is email, it still just works. It is our job to make it look good however you connect to the community, freeing you up to focus on what you want to say.
The web client that powers our hosted sites is open source.
Powered by Django, our web client can be extended with Django Apps. We offer customization of design and theme but if you want to create a feature very specific to your community, perhaps a fantasy league for Chess, then we encourage you to fork the client, write an app and host it on Heroku. We will continue to take care of the storage, availability of the API, security of the data, email gateways and other parts of the platform, whilst you have total control of the experience that sets your community apart.
Our own client and mobile apps are powered by our REST API.
Everything that our sites can do, a developer can do using our API. This means that you can create apps as powerful as the native experience we offer. If you want to deeply integrate the features we offer into your existing site then we have fully documented our API and we help you get going with it.
Developer to startups and multi-nationals
MSc in Computer Science.
Runs one of the largest cycling forums in the world.
Experienced in building teams and running companies.
