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This looks promising! I help run local meetups for systems programmers [0] in cities across the world. We've been looking for a self-hosted RSVP system for ages (and haven't had the time to build one.) We'll take Cactoide out for a spin for our September meetups! I'll open up some GitHub issues if any blockers show up. [0] https://handmadecities.com/meetups
Reminds me of my site Partey.io but with a bit of a different vibe. Congrats on launching! https://partey.io/
Meetup was great until it became so expensive to run a glorified calendar+ email list. $180+ a year is silly for small groups. But meetup was awesome for discoverability of small local niche groups. Manual link sharing doesn't help with local groups. The alternative was Facebook groups for free, but has awful discoverability and awful event calendars. But most people have Facebook, so thats the default now. How does…
But people seem to like it.
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?
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You should try out Lu.ma - it does all those things for free. I use it extensively for managing rsvps to both private and public events.
I just signed up to try it out, but I don't see either of these features: - ability to set each invitee as an adult, a child or an infant - ability to group invitees into families, so that any adult in the family can edit the RSVP for any/all family members
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I just signed up to try it out, but I don't see either of these features: - ability to set each invitee as an adult, a child or an infant - ability to group invitees into families, so that any adult in the family can edit the RSVP for any/all family members
What would be the use case for that? Do people really (want to) manage their RSVP in that much detail?
I think there is room for an open source version of Luma, but this ain’t it. Trying to do better than Meetup or Eventbrite is setting the bar so low you can hold a limbo contest. If you’re going to vibe code a competitor, I would at least aim to replicate the gold standard.
Gold standard is Luma for you?
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 th…
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 - ni…
Please provide feedback, and let’s see what we can do.
Got some more ideas and devs interested if we spin this for real