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

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Post by extrovertgeek »

kenkunz wrote: post #26

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…

Couldn’t agree more! Event guy here, for our country 2 weeks ago we launched https://belgiumtech.events

Little niche we conquered with duck tape data inputting and a nice UI Very open to feedback!

For guilds / groups / clubs / companies.. I was even thinking a decentralised SOLID database (cf Berners Lee) for futureproof(?) data ownership and interoperability

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

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Post by littlestymaar »

wodenokoto wrote: post #44
TheAdamist wrote: post #9

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…

My experience was that Facebook was the default for events, which slowly moved to meetup.com and with the price hikes organizers moved to WhatsApp, which is the worst in every aspect for _me_ as a user. But people seem to like it.

How do you find new groups on WhatsApp?

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

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Post by pantalaimon »

wodenokoto wrote: post #44
TheAdamist wrote: post #9

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…

My experience was that Facebook was the default for events, which slowly moved to meetup.com and with the price hikes organizers moved to WhatsApp, which is the worst in every aspect for _me_ as a user. But people seem to like it.

Facebook events were amazing, you would get suggestions of friends going to some event or just suggestions to similar events that you liked.

But nowadays nobody is on Facebook anymore and there is just no replacement for that.

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

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Post by mikodin »

littlestymaar wrote: post #52
wodenokoto wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My experience was that Facebook was the default for events, which slowly moved to meetup.com and with the price hikes organizers moved to WhatsApp, which is the worst in every aspect for _me_ as a user. But people seem to like it.

How do you find new groups on WhatsApp?

Word of mouth. Ironically enough, I just sent this to a friend around the same time you commented this

"I’m curious where event discovery is for___, are there TG / WA groups?"

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

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Post by toyg »

sandspar wrote: post #37
qgin wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Meetup was bought by Bending Spoons (after a winding path getting passed around after it being sold to WeWork). They’re basically just running it until the wheels fall off.

Bending Spoons are the same people who bought and then systematically abused and violated poor Evernote.

Bending Spoons is a weird beast. Nobody likes them and nobody likes working for them, but they are loved by capital markets - they seem to have an endless stream of money coming in to finance acquisitions. They will buy anything, strip it down to bare essentials, jack up prices, and leave it running to generate cash for as long as it can, until it dies of natural death. There is little or no pretension of innovation, just value-extraction distilled into purest form.

Oracle should buy them, they'd fit together perfectly.

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

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Post by whycome »

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.

So they did mean Eventbrite?

I was wondering if Eventribe was actually a thing and was guessing that it really could be. (It seems that it is a thing, but small. Not even leaning into the “tribe” aspect of the name)

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

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Post by rahimnathwani »

foxglacier wrote: post #39
rahimnathwani wrote: post #5

Every year I pay $39.99 for a one-month subscription for Punchbowl, which allows me to easily manage RSVP's for my son's birthday party. For that price, you get the normal stuff you'd expect and also: - no ads - ability to set each invitee as an adult, a child or an infant (useful when planning food and activities) - ability to group invitees into families, so that any adult in the family can edit the RSVP for any/al…

How does it work with various modes of communicating? Pretty much each person I know has their own messenger service, or sometimes just the phone or seeing them in person.

Each invited family must have at least one person with an email address OR cellphone number.

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

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Post by rahimnathwani »

dewey wrote: post #46
rahimnathwani wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Invitee age group: - kids need less food than adults

- adults don't need nerf guns

- kids and adults have different drink preferences.

Ability to group invitees into families:

- whichever parent is 'in charge' of plans for that weekend can respond

- whichever parent realises there's a change of plans can edit one or more of the RSVPs

- often a family will accept/decline differently for different members, e.g. older sibling isn't interested, or one parent will run errands whilst the other is at the party

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