Today is Easter Sunday. And this morning, DeafMonitor quietly came to life.
Not with a press release. Not with a countdown timer. Just a platform, a door left open, and an invitation to anyone who finds their way here first.
This is the soft launch. Which means things are still warming up. A few rough edges remain. Some features are still finding their final form. But the core of what DeafMonitor is — Deaf news, sports, events, jobs, creators, a marketplace, a library, all in one place — is real and it works. Today felt like the right moment to crack it open and let the light in.
I started building DeafMonitor because I kept running into the same problem: there was no single place where the Deaf community could go to find everything that mattered to it. You’d catch a headline on one site, an event listing somewhere else, a job posting buried in a Facebook group, a creator you’d never heard of because there was no directory to find them. The community has always been there. The infrastructure around it hasn’t kept up.
DeafMonitor is the attempt to fix that. One platform. One address. Everything Deaf.
It’s independent. It’s ad-free. There’s no algorithm deciding what you should care about based on what will keep you clicking longest. The Deaf community deserves better than that. It deserves a platform built for it — not adapted from one built for everyone else.
Today is quiet. That’s intentional. The full public launch is April 14. That’s the day we throw the doors open all the way, and everyone who creates an account on April 14 becomes a Charter Member. No cost. No catch. Just a permanent marker that you showed up when it mattered.
If you’re reading this today — Easter Sunday — you found us early. Come look around. If something’s broken, hit the bug report button at the bottom of the page. If something’s missing that should be here, tell us on the wish list. We’re building this with the community — not for it.
The egg has cracked. What comes next is built together.
Sign up at deafmonitor.com/teaser and be first in line for Charter Member status on April 14.
— Bryan