Launching 7 September 2026 · Technical Communities
Everything your community needs to run, and a network to run it on.
Junction is the full service platform for technical communities. Events, tickets, speakers, sponsors, memberships and your own website, all in one place. Plus a network that puts your community in front of thousands of practitioners who are already looking for it.
Free to start. Built by organisers, for organisers. Your data stays yours.
The Challenge
Running a community should not cost this much, or hurt this much.
£7,500
A year, and rising
Our own platform costs went from $100 to over $7,500 a year on Meetup alone, and we still needed a stack of other tools just to put an event on. Nobody voted for that. There was no recourse.
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Tools that do not talk to each other
Meetup for discovery. Eventbrite for tickets. Google Forms for talk submissions. A spreadsheet for sponsors. Something else for memberships. Something else again for email. Every handoff is a gap, every gap is manual work.
$500M
Consolidation, not innovation
Bending Spoons' $500 million acquisition of Eventbrite pulled more of the legacy stack under owners with no particular interest in what community organisers need next.
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Ownership
Your members, your history and your reputation sit on someone else's platform, under their terms, priced at their discretion. When their priorities change, you pay for it.
Why We Built This
We are organisers first.
Community Stack runs 17 communities and 12 conferences. We have chased sponsors at midnight, printed badges in a hotel room, and reconciled a ticket spreadsheet against a door list on a phone with no signal. Junction exists because we needed it, not because we spotted a market.
Switching tools does not fix fragmentation, it relocates it. So we built the whole thing: one system, one login, one record of who your community actually is.
One system
Not seven tabs — one place to run everything.
One login
Organisers, attendees, speakers and sponsors — one account each.
One record
Who your community actually is, with complete history.
What Junction Gives You
Three things, one platform.
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Run it
Events from a twelve-person meetup to a multi-track conference. Tickets, check-in, speakers, sponsors, memberships, your own website. All connected, all in one place.
02
Grow it
A network of communities and practitioners, so your next event is discoverable by people who have never heard of you, and your members can find everything else worth going to.
03
Sustain it
Sponsorship management, memberships and a resource hub of templates that actually work — so the community can keep going without everything depending on one organiser holding it all together.
The Network
Communities, not isolated islands.
Most platforms treat every community as a separate account with a separate audience. Junction treats them as one network, because the people in them already overlap.
One place to find everything
Every community and every event on Junction, in a single feed, filtered by topic, location, format and date.
One identity across all of it
A practitioner joins once. Their profile, attendance history, talks given, memberships and saved events follow them across every community on the network. No fifteenth account. No fifteenth login.
Following that means something
Follow communities, speakers and topics, get a digest rather than a flood, and sync everything you follow into your own calendar.
Discovery you do not have to buy
New members find your community because they are already in the network looking for what you do.
Fair Pricing, Enforced
A four rate system that does not require anyone to prove they are poor.
Ticket pricing in this industry is either free and unsustainable, or priced for expense accounts and quietly exclusionary. Junction ships a rate structure that solves both.
Community rate
Self select. No means testing, no proof, no forms, no email explaining your circumstances to a stranger. Take it if you need it.
General rate
The standard price for people paying for themselves.
Corporate rate
For people whose employer is paying, because their employer should.
Supporter rate
For people who want to fund someone else's seat, with a published running total of how many they have funded.
Community seats are capped as a proportion of the room and the counter is public, so the promise is enforced by the platform rather than by good intentions. Every organiser on the network gets this out of the box. Event bands come preconfigured too: free meetups, online summits, regional conferences, capital city conferences, leaders summits and workshops.
Run the Community
Everything you are currently doing in seven tabs.
Events
Tickets and payments
Check-in
Speakers and talks
Sponsors
Memberships
Your website
Analytics
Content and Reach
The talk does not end when the room empties.
A talk archive that links the submission to the session to the video to the speaker's profile. Transcripts, chapters and clips generated for you. Recordings released to members first, then published to YouTube automatically when the window closes.
Newsletter publishing with segmentation, scheduling and sponsor slots. Podcast publishing with episode management and distribution.
A job board with moderation, expiry and applications routed to the right place.
The Organiser Programme
You are not a user of this platform. You are part of it.
Communities apply to join the network and get an entitlement bundle on approval. Beyond the software, that means a resource hub of blueprints, run sheets, budget templates and sponsor decks that already work, a peer forum of people solving the same problems, and an annual organiser gathering.
You are not a customer with a support ticket. You are an organiser with a shared platform, and the people building it are organisers too.
Resource hub
Blueprints, run sheets, budget templates and sponsor decks that already work.
Peer forum
People solving the same problems, not a help centre with a five-day SLA.
Annual gathering
A physical meeting of the people who run the network.
Roadmap input
What gets built next is shaped by the people running things on it, not by a product team guessing from a distance.
Built on the Same Platform
Built on the same platform as everything else we make.
Junction runs on Engine, the open source platform behind every Community Stack product. The same system that runs a national conference runs a food bank in Barnsley on our third-sector deployment.
Enterprise-grade security, reliability and audit logging on a free community account. Screens your organisers use that are as accessible as the pages your attendees see. Your data stays yours: full export, any time, self service, no fee and no support ticket.
Enterprise-grade security
Reliability, audit logging, and compliance on every plan including free.
Accessible throughout
Screens your organisers use are as accessible as the pages your attendees see.
Your data stays yours
Full export, any time, self service, no fee and no support ticket.
Moving From Meetup, Bevy, Luma or Eventbrite
Members, events and history come across.
We have done this for dozens of communities, including our own, without losing a single member. Migration is a supported part of the product, not a favour.
Members and profiles
Event history and attendance records
Speaker history and talk archives
Sponsor relationships and contracts
Who It Is For
Built for everyone who makes a community work.
Community organisers
Run the whole thing from one place, and stop paying more each year for less.
Conference organisers
The operational depth serious events need, including CFP, sponsorship and multi-track scheduling, without three separate vendors.
Companies and DevRel teams
Reach communities honestly through sponsorship and speaking, with reporting that shows what it actually returned. Or run your own internal guilds and communities of practice on the enterprise edition.
Practitioners
One identity across every community you belong to, one calendar, and a fair rate whatever your circumstances.
Roadmap
Where we are going.
7 September 2026 — Launch
The network, events, tickets, check-in, microsites, CFP, sponsorship, memberships and analytics, live with the founding communities on it.
Q4 2026 — Open Source
Open source release of the Engine core. Community health scoring, re-engagement tools, deeper sponsor attribution and reporting.
2027 — Mobile & Global
Native mobile apps for organisers and attendees. Global directory expansion. Partner API for third-party builders. Multi-language support.
Pricing
Free until it is worth paying for.
Starter
Communities up to 500 members, fully hosted
£0
Pro
Active communities running events regularly
£39
a month, or £390 a year
Enterprise
Multi-community operators and conference organisers
£149
a month, or £1,490 a year
All prices exclude VAT. Free plan available for communities up to 500 members.
Running internal guilds or a communities of practice programme inside a large organisation? That is the Engine enterprise edition, with single sign-on, self-hosting and white labelling. Talk to us
“This is not an incremental product release. This is a structural intervention into a broken market. We are building the system communities should have had from the start. Not tools. Infrastructure.”
Ethan Sumner, Founder and CEO
Technical Communities Are Not Side Projects
They deserve infrastructure that matches their importance.
They are the knowledge networks, career pathways and trust systems the engineering industry runs on, priced by people who have had to pay the bill themselves.
Launching 7 September 2026 · Early access open now · Limited onboarding