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Re: Show HN: Meetup.com and eventribe alternative to small groups

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Post by raybb »

Looks really nice for it's niche.

I very recently started considering the options around and really wanna give a shot to the federated version called Mobilizon. It seems to be gaining quite some popularity according to the stats but it's mostly in Europe.

There is a US instance though with some decent amount of activity.

https://mobilizon.us

It's still a little rough around the edges but the devs (french nonprofit that made peertube) just got money to fix that up so I really hope they make good headway. I'm gonna start a group on there soon and hopefully that'll lead to some useful bug reports and feedback.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobilizon

Re: Show HN: Meetup.com and eventribe alternative to small groups

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Post by ajjenkins »

This seems useful, but I don’t think this could replace most use cases for Meetup or Eventbrite.

This actually sounds more similar to Partiful, which I like for one-off events. I would describe this as an open source Partiful, but not specifically geared towards parties.

Re: Show HN: Meetup.com and eventribe alternative to small groups

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Post by sws303 »

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Re: Show HN: Meetup.com and eventribe alternative to small groups

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Post by kenkunz »

Meetup.com is just BEGGING to be replaced. The UI looks like Classmates.com had a baby with a Windows 95 dialog box. The interstitial ads are as annoying and useless as fake recruiter texts. Organizer pricing has skyrocketed like eggs in 2024, and now they're paywalling BASIC features for attendees (like seeing who's actually coming). Classic PE "we hate our customers" BS.

Cactoide looks great for one-off events - nice work! But it doesn't replace Meetup for recurring groups that need subscriptions, notifications, member management, etc.

The best alternative I've found so far is https://guild.host. Just launched Svelte Chicago on it (shameless plug - come join us!) and our first event yesterday went smoothly. Guild has some rough edges but a smart founder with the right priorities.

What's still missing, as TheAdamist mentioned, is discoverability. I think we need to separate meetup discovery from event management - an event-platform-agnostic registry/search that works across Guild, Eventbrite, Facebook Events, whatever. Hmm... might have just found our next Svelte meetup hackathon project.

Re: Show HN: Meetup.com and eventribe alternative to small groups

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Post by orbanlevi »

bryzaguy wrote: post #25

Is this hosted as a free service anywhere? The thing all my friends in NYC are using is Partiful. It’s free and I don’t have to host.

Yea, you could try now at cactoide.dalev.hu but I'm gonna reset the database in every week, so you should selfhost or just contact me and I'm gonna setup an instance for you.

Re: Show HN: Meetup.com and eventribe alternative to small groups

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Post by orbanlevi »

ajjenkins wrote: post #22

This seems useful, but I don’t think this could replace most use cases for Meetup or Eventbrite. This actually sounds more similar to Partiful, which I like for one-off events. I would describe this as an open source Partiful, but not specifically geared towards parties.

You 're right something similar, I don't know about Partiful, but something similar, yes just with less noise, it really only focuses on the event

Re: Show HN: Meetup.com and eventribe alternative to small groups

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Post by orbanlevi »

KingOfCoders wrote: post #23

The only reason for me to be on meetup.com was the reach to get more people to my events (e.g. eBay Tech Talk Germany). I didn't care about the event management etc.

...and re u paying for the service nowdays? Don't you wanna a selfhost your own events?

Re: Show HN: Meetup.com and eventribe alternative to small groups

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Post by orbanlevi »

ElijahLynn wrote: post #7

Great start! My first action after creating the event was to try to edit it and I realized I couldn't do that cuz I don't have an account or authorization to edit it. Is editing in the works?

I'm thinking of new features so ofc, if someone needs this I'm gonna implement it. Right now my focus was only on the event creation and pure rsvp.
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