Beam

Beam

Beam

A gamified community platform built for easy engagement

Price starts from
$13
/ month
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What is Beam? ✨

Beam is an online community platform designed to help brands and organizations create, grow, and manage their own community spaces.

What Beam can be used for? ✨

Key benefits of using Beam for community builders:

  • Beam leverages gamification to make online communities more interactive and engaging. By incorporating elements like quests, leaderboards, levels, and badges, it taps into the innate human desire for competition and achievement, driving user engagement and increasing member retention.
  • Community builders can create a unique and branded online space. With Beam, you can set up a custom domain, add brand-specific elements, and design your platform in real-time to reflect your organization's identity, providing a consistent and immersive brand experience for users.
  • Beam allows for the creation of subforums and post categories, enabling users to navigate easily to content that is most relevant to them. This helps in maintaining a well-organized and focused community where information overload is minimized and content discovery is streamlined.
  • Beam offers management and moderation tools, including a customizable Word Filter, to proactively block profanity and inappropriate content. This ensures a positive environment for all community members.
  • Beam's mobile-first design and multiplatform optimization mean that community members can stay connected from any device with internet access. This convenience encourages more frequent and sustained user interaction, contributing to a more vibrant community.
  • By applying game theory and design principles, Beam transforms the community platform into an adventure, making user interactions more exciting and rewarding.

Features ✨

  • Gamification

  • Moderation tools

  • Subforums

  • Customized reactions, colors, etc.

  • Community analytics

  • Mobile-first design

  • Community monetization (8% fee)

What are the limitations? ✨

According to users reviews, Beam has a few limitations that users and community builders should be aware of:

  • Customization is limited: Users don't have a lot of options to change colors and design elements to match their brand perfectly.
  • Missing features: Some important features like private messaging and detailed gamification settings are still being worked on and aren't available yet.
  • Data control and privacy: There are some concerns over who controls the community data and how private the community can be.
  • Growth-related issues: As a community gets bigger, some users are worried that Beam might not be able to handle the increased activity smoothly.
  • Few Integrations: The platform doesn't yet connect with a wide range of other tools and services, which could limit what you can do with it.
  • Moderation tools need improvement: The tools provided for keeping the community safe and well-managed could be better.
  • Monetization commission rates: The platform takes a cut from community earnings, and some users think this commission is too high (8%).
  • Still developing: Beam is relatively new and still adding features, so it may not have everything that established communities need right now.

Languages ✨

  • English