Circles
A private room
for your people.
A circle in PixelGlass is a named group of members, such as founding members, a course cohort or your clients. Publish posts that only the circle can read. A circle has no price and no end date: you decide who is in it.
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Who is in
Gather any group,
in seconds.
Add a member to a circle from their page, or tick many on your roster and add them all at once. A member can be on a paid tier and in as many circles as you like.
- Filter your roster by circle
- A count of members on every circle
- Your app or your agent keeps a circle in sync
Circle-only posts
Write for the few.
Lock it for the rest.
Set a post's Who can read to Circles and choose one or more. Members of any of them read the whole post. Everyone else sees its title, cover and excerpt, and a note that it is for that circle, with a link to the circle's join page if you give one.
- Use your own page to say how to join
- A circle that a post is for is never deleted by accident
- Tiers sell access; circles grant it
Your app
Run it from
your own product.
Sell a course, a cohort or a client service somewhere else? Add and remove members through the Admin API or your agent, and find each one by email. Adding someone twice changes nothing, so a nightly sync is safe.
- Five circle tools on the MCP server
- The same changes in the admin, the API and the agent
- Circles
No price, no plan
A circle grants access. It never charges, so it works beside any tier.
- Circles
Many circles, one member
A member belongs to as many circles as you like, and reads every post for each of them.
- Circles
Staff stay in charge
Owners and admins manage circles. Members cannot add themselves.
Questions about circles
- What is a circle in PixelGlass?
- A circle is a named group of members, such as founding members, a cohort or clients, with posts only its members can read. It has no price and no end date. Owners and admins decide who is in it.
- What is the difference between a circle and a paid tier?
- A tier is something a reader buys, with a price and a renewal. A circle is a group you choose by hand or from your own app. A member can have a tier and be in any number of circles at the same time.
- How do members join a circle?
- Staff add them on the member's page or in bulk from the roster, or your app adds them through the Admin API or the MCP server. Give the circle a join page, and readers who are not in it see a link to that page.
- Can my agent manage circles?
- Yes. The MCP server has tools to list, create and update circles and to add and remove members, so Claude or ChatGPT can keep a circle in step with a list you give it.
- What do readers outside the circle see?
- The post's title, cover and excerpt, then a note that the post is for that circle, linked to the circle's join page when it has one.
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Community Readers who stay, and talk back. Give readers a member account with no password, a conversation under every post, and badges that honour your supporters. Moderated by your team. Read about members and comments →
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Paid memberships Readers who pay. Money that's yours. Sell paid memberships in your own currency through Stripe, Paystack or Dodo Payments. Tiers, trials, a paywall on any post, and no platform fee. Read about paid memberships →
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MCP server Your publication, in your agent's hands. Every PixelGlass site is an MCP server with 68 tools. Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and more write posts, design themes and run your publication. Read about mCP server →
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