Community Leaders panel at the Create With conference in London
Community Stacks is an opinionated collection of resources about community management. At least… that’s what I want it to become. Eventually. 😅
Hi! I’m Andy Claremont. I’ve worked with communities in gaming, tech, and B2B SaaS for the last 15+ years, and I’ve been itching for a space to share all the thinking, notes, tools, templates, frameworks, etc… I’ve amassed in that time.
Community Stacks is that space.
It’s a bit of a throwback to the good ol’ days of personal websites, of blogging, of getting really into a topic and having fun with it, without the pretension or fuss of trying to optimize for some arbitrary algorithm.
It’s a build-in-public project, and I’m in the earliest of Alpha stages, figuring out what this thing might become. That said, I do have some high-level ideas in mind:
A weekly-ish digest of useful things. You’re reading it now. So meta.
An ever-evolving repository of evergreen knowledge.
Conversations with other community managers and leaders.
If any of this piques your interest, you should subscribe and follow along. If you’re already subscribed, thank you for jumping in so early! 🙏🏻
Communities had quite a moment six years ago.
Fun(?) fact: The first version of Community Stacks came online in 2020.
We were in the middle of COVID lockdowns, everyone was online, and new community platforms kept appearing. I wanted to keep track of all these new tools and platforms, so I pulled them into a Google Sheet (as one does).
Unfortunately that first version of Community Stacks didn’t go anywhere.
Between my day job at GoDaddy, and the arrival of our new baby girl, I couldn’t find/make the time to work on it. Then, when I finally returned to the project, most of the listed platforms had either shut down or pivoted away from community entirely.
RIP, right?
Not quite.
Communities are having another moment.
We’re in the early weeks of 2026. Social Media is worse than ever. It’s a cacophony of AI and algorithms chasing our attention, punctuated with rage bait, bots, and trolls.
Thing is, people are still looking for connection… but they’re finding it elsewhere.
IRL events. Group chats. Private, invite-only spaces.
Community is the through line for all of it.
These are persistent, connected groups of people who have something in common.
Great community management helps facilitate these groups.
I hope Community Stacks can help you with that.
The first “real” newsletter drops next week.
In the meantime? Go have a great weekend, and say hi to a stranger for me.
~ Andy