There's a specific kind of person who, at some point in their life, stopped waiting.
Stopped waiting for someone else to organize the trip, send the invite, pick the restaurant, suggest the thing. They just started doing it themselves — and then couldn't stop, because it turns out it feels good to be the one who made something happen.
That's you. That's why you're here. And if there's one thing every person in this community has in common, it's this: at some point, they stopped waiting for perfect and just posted the thing.
CREATOR SPOTLIGHT
Mylai Matcha
Mylai Matcha — Chicago, IL @mylaimatcha
Lucia moved to Chicago and couldn't find her people — not at bars, not at the gym, not doom scrolling. So she built Mylai Matcha: a community third space for the people who want to feel ~connection and presence, and who also like matcha. It's part event series, part social experiment, part love letter to local small businesses. Still figuring it out. Still showing up every time.
THE OPEN TAB
rapid-fire roundup of stuff that caught our eye this week.
TikTok officially declared 2026 "the year of the host" — @veronafarrell_ said it first, and the data backed her up. Evite surveyed 5,000 people and found smaller, meaningful gatherings are surging. Book clubs, pet birthday parties, coffee dates. Anything is an excuse. You're early to this, not late.
Admin night is the most Pie event idea we've ever seen — A viral TikTok trend where people gather friends to do boring life admin together — taxes, emails, bills — with candles and wine. It's low-key, it's recurring, it basically wrote itself as a Pie plan. We're just saying.
TikTok just launched a Local Feed — A new tab surfacing nearby events, local creators, and businesses based on your location. If TikTok is betting on local discovery, you should be posting your events there too. Your event description on Pie should be your TikTok caption.
what usually stalls your plans?
LAST BITE ⌚︎
Publish before you're ready — on purpose. There's always a version of your next event that is more thought-through, better promoted, more polished. That version will always exist. The event you post today, imperfect as it is, teaches you things the hypothetical version never could: who actually shows up, what works in the room, what you'd do differently next time. The gap between "not ready" and "ready" is almost always smaller than it feels. You can optimize everything else after.
And since we're talking about posting before you're ready: the draft feature in Pie lets you build out your event and work on your nerves after.That’s it for this week. Thanks for being here. If something resonated, forward this to a friend who’d get it. If you made something new, reply and tell us about it. We read every one.
This is the first issue of something we've been wanting to build for a while — a place that's not a rewards reminder, just something we can share with all of you. We'll be here every Thursday.
The PCC Team
PCC is a creative community for people who bring others together. Have an idea? reach out to us at [email protected]