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Re: Meetup.com alternatives

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Post by olegp » Tue, Oct 15, 2019, 6:56 PM UTC

reustle wrote: post #117

olegp wrote: post #87

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I've started a few meetups and a format that works well is the following: - have one company as the sponsor, providing venue, food and one technical talk - this ensures that the organizers don't need to deal with money which is a big admin headache - have around 3 talks total, but keep them short, to around 20 minutes + 5 minutes for Q&A - start the event 15-30 mins late to allow for people to show up late and giving…

Why do you limit Meetabit to specific locations? Give us a free form search area and let me start a group anywhere :D

We soft launched it in a few cities only and it was easier to implement that way. I've added Tokyo for you now though. If there are any others you'd like me to add, post them in a comment here please.

Re: Meetup.com alternatives

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Post by iso-8859-1 » Tue, Oct 15, 2019, 7:00 PM UTC

chrisa wrote: post #77

starpilot wrote: post #72

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There are many other Meetup alternatives being started or in use, included some not listed in OP article. This is not good. There's too much fragmentation in this space and it'll be hard to have the self-sustaining critical mass, and cross-pollination across communities that made Meetup.com effective. I'm in tech, sports, and social Meetup groups. I don't want to join 3 new sites to replace this one.

Yes, I worry about that too - any ideas about how to fix it? One of the things I liked about meetup was that many (most?) groups were hosted on it, but I think what this has shown is that meetup had a kind of monopoly in that way (which wasn't good!)

> any ideas about how to fix it?

Mobilizon supports federation.

https://joinmobilizon.org/en/

Re: Meetup.com alternatives

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Post by teslafanboi » Tue, Oct 15, 2019, 7:00 PM UTC

giongto35 wrote: post #118

Every business needs money. Why we are so bitter every time a business charging for service fees? the society is so familiar with free stuff and ads.

the people who sit here and scream OMG WHY DOES GOOGLE SELL ADS JUST LET ME PAY are the same ones that aren't willing to pay for anything and feel entitled to everything on the internet

Re: Meetup.com alternatives

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Post by em-bee » Tue, Oct 15, 2019, 7:01 PM UTC

degenerate wrote: post #3

The list: https://emamo.com https://kommunity.com https://joinmobilizon.org/en https://cete.io (not yet launched?) https://eventy.io (not yet launched) And the not-yet-build one by FreeCodeCamp: https://twitter.com/ossia/status/1183845054449930241 I've never heard of any of them. Opinions?

open event (FOSS licensed) (public instance on https://eventyay.com)

Re: Meetup.com alternatives

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Post by abledon » Tue, Oct 15, 2019, 7:01 PM UTC

degenerate wrote: post #3

The list: https://emamo.com https://kommunity.com https://joinmobilizon.org/en https://cete.io (not yet launched?) https://eventy.io (not yet launched) And the not-yet-build one by FreeCodeCamp: https://twitter.com/ossia/status/1183845054449930241 I've never heard of any of them. Opinions?

FreeCodeCamp project is this one: https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/chapter

Re: Meetup.com alternatives

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Post by lovetocode » Tue, Oct 15, 2019, 7:03 PM UTC

Adios Meetup.com you had a good run but this may be the end of you.

Re: Meetup.com alternatives

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Post by jl2718 » Tue, Oct 15, 2019, 7:03 PM UTC

This feels like a trend: investors forcing startups to find a real business model. Expect more of this.

Re: Meetup.com alternatives

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Post by whsheet » Tue, Oct 15, 2019, 7:04 PM UTC

OT: Am I the only one who thinks that most meetups are crap? The idea of meeting like-minded people is tempting but the reality is always different: Crowded places, stuffy air, weak talks, lame sponsors, 1-to-n presentations, no real interaction, stale drinks out of thin plastic cups, odd devs

Re: Meetup.com alternatives

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Post by notelonmusk » Tue, Oct 15, 2019, 7:06 PM UTC

Recent AskHN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21253620

Re: Meetup.com alternatives

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Post by em-bee » Tue, Oct 15, 2019, 7:09 PM UTC

disgruntledphd2 wrote: post #48

ghaff wrote: post #25

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A per-person charge makes free/volunteer-organized events largely a non-starter. Any charge is a huge friction for people signing up for something. And unless it's a corporate sponsored event (and often even then), the $5 or so per person who actually ends up attending is significant. Probably people/companies will just depend on word of mouth and other channels to promote events and not depend on discovery through a…

Yup, if this goes through, we'll need to move all our meetups to email notifications, which will kill virality but given that no-one's going to pay for a meetup, is probably the better solution. I fucking hate WeWork (i was really worried when Meetup.com was acquired, and it appears that I was correct to be).

one group i am in uses meetup for event announcements, but manages the event on their own website. it's really just to enable people to find them on meetup. meetup never sees any rsvps except some that rsvp by mistake.

the only thing that virality helps with is event anouncements. finding all events in the same place, that is what makes meetup.com useful. the actual registration, and what not can be done anywhere else without causing to much friction.