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Still working on https://radius.to/ - a Meetup.com alternative of sorts - with fairer organiser pricing for smaller groups. I posted a Show HN [1] here a while back, got tons of gr…

Hey! Wow, I knew about OpenTechCalendar but somehow hadn't realised (or likely forgot) how close to home it was! I'll definitely reach out for a chat at some point. And thanks for …

I guess the weekend was a bad time to upgrade to Rails 8.1 :) - should be fixed now, was just an issue with Redis. Thanks for letting me know!

https://radius.to/ - a Meetup.com alternative of sorts - with fairer organiser pricing for smaller groups. I posted a Show HN [1] here a while back, got tons of great feedback, and…

I'm building a Meetup.com alternative, of sorts - https://www.radius.to/ It's intended to be a sort of social network focused on IRL groups/communities and finding others with the …

It's easier said than done, I suppose, but my first ~500 users for https://radius.to/ were from HN after hitting the front page. A year later, I still get a decent amount of traffi…

> The other thing I'd say is that "event" could have a broader meaning than the meetup/facebook definition. Sale at a local shop? Someone's giving away a piano? Yoga on the beach e…

> This sounds great. I will mention to some folks I know, that might be able to use it. Thanks, that'd be awesome! And that sounds like most of the experiences I've heard - their p…

Good suggestion, thanks!

> how simple it is to register an account I think the sign-up flow is super minimal/easy at this point, but I'd love any suggestions you've got in mind. Relevant features I'll be a…

Thanks again for this comment. Having thought about it a little, I'm going to try and address this by:- - Adding a Pledge/Goals page with my plan for the platform - Adding a Pricin…

Thanks! Yeah ticketing is a feature on my Trello todo list! For now, I'm just linking a "Tickets" button to whatever external provider the organiser wants to use.

Hey, thanks for sharing your industry experience! For 5. in particular, I have a general vision of what I want the platform to be but it's always changing with new ideas here and t…

> i hate having to sign up manually >:( Likewise, sorry about that! I'll bump this up on the Trello board!

Thanks!

Thanks, Simmon!

> Great idea Thanks! > But that website is cold and stark, the opposite of what a human-interaction should be. Find some (quality) stock photos of actual people to add to the landi…

Ahh, thanks for reporting this! Will fix it in the next release!

> So I've added radius.to to that. Hey, thanks! Much appreciated! > Discoverability. meetup.com wins by having a list of events which is not just searchable and taggable etc, but a…

Hey, nice! Good luck with it! Feel free to reach out (email or Twitter) if you want to bounce ideas off each other or just have a chat!

I haven't implemented anything for this yet, only thought about it - but I think the OpenAI API would be able to handle moderation/approval if done correctly. I'd assume major plat…

Awesome suggestion, thanks!

> How do you plan to make money? Without a visible monetization model, my main concern switching to your platform would be the longevity of the platform and the risk of building up…

> yet it's hard to just say "use all the values from the previous one" Whaa- I'm kind of amazed they don't have this given how easy it would be to add. I just added this exact feat…

> I think of Garry Tan's Posthaven as a good model. [1] This is an awesome suggestion - definitely stealing that idea. Thanks!