Uuki might be a strange name to many of us, but with a whitelabel it will not matter much :)
Brought to us by the same team who delivered Vadootv - a product that has improved in leaps and constantly - Uuki is a simple and clean community platform aiming to compete with Circle, Lu.ma, etc.

PROS:

1. The team behind it knows what they are doing and never failed to take feedback into consideration from their users. Having a suite of products integrating with each other is a sign of excellent business mindset.

2. They actually charge a commission for when monetizing the community. Yes, this is a pro aspect of it because it leads straight into sustainability.

3. Customizable platform that can also handle HTML within its posts. This, is priceless if you think about use-cases.

4. It offers member profile pages, which can be used for business networking and more; this is a brilliant approach, but it is still under-developed as it is now.

5. Roadmap is actually not a promise, but a process. They actually do it if it is doable.

6. Unlimited members. Need I say more?

CONS:

1. Platform is still bare bones, as powerful as it may be already. This is a good thing actually, but don't expect Circle equivalent yet. Give it some time.

2. Communication between members is not there yet. Will need 1-1 chats, video chat, internal messaging to be complete.

3. Design is at framework level. Meaning many elements are raw.. Considering their work on Vadootv player, I am confident design is coming to Uuki as well - but it may be slow.

4. My MAIN aspect that is missing and I made my case why it needs to exist: SPACES need to be unlimited; this is what will scale interaction and monetization which in turn will reflect in the fees they are charging. In Uuki, spaces are like..threads. There should be no limit there.

5. No member created spaces (but this is on the roadmap).

6. Limited number of attendees per event. This one again is counter-productive because we would be using external resources and monetizing them. I suggest a fee (LOW) per paid event and unlimited attendees. Let us scale when needed. For free events I understand the limit, for paid events I do not.

PRO/CON Balance: for me this was instant. I trust the team behind it, I see developments, I understand their challenges and their choice not to rush or over promise.

Folks were all over the Beam platform but did not understand how inflexible the devs were in enabling features that would bring power to the members. Uuki does that out of the box, now.

No brainer for me.