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Re: Meetup.com alternatives

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Post by joe_the_user »

adrianmonk wrote: post #112

People skipping the RSVP and just showing up "unofficially" is already a problem with Meetup. This is going to create the exact wrong incentive for that. Next up: movie theaters that charge $2 to anyone who doesn't talk during a movie, gyms that charge $2 if you put dumbbells back on the rack instead leaving them strewn around the floor, traffic cops giving tickets for properly using your turn signal, ...

The thing is, as a meetup organizer, I prefer someone who shows up but doesn't sign-up to someone who doesn't show up at all. At least for ongoing attendees and I host weekly and monthly "hobby" events when once someone shows up once, they don't have much incentive to sign-up for future meetup events and that's fine for everyone. I still don't mind paying for meetup because it's a way for new people to find the event.

But in that situation, attendees paying meetup is absurd but in just about any situation, attendees paying meetup is absurd. Meetup already has an option to have attendees to pay the organizer for attending. They might consider that for the events where this option isn't used, it is realistically because this could not work, you can't get money from people for that stuff.

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Post by iskander »

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?

I like https://www.mixily.com: it's not a direct Meetup competitor but it is nice for scheduling individual events.

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Post by com2kid »

NicoJuicy wrote: post #108
Cshelton wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm actually building something right now. I'm building it because it is a problem I've faced among my friends and well.. the "millennial" generation to begin with. I'm building it first to be used among myself and friends. I don't want to say too much because to me the solution seems so obvious and I'd like to have something out there and tried on a small scale first, but... the key is not to focus on events directl…

Let's talk, i'm building one too. But with some different use-cases probably. Nico at Sapico dot me I have a marketing plan ready which is dublicateable for every city. Belgium and Netherlands is reserved for me ;)

I'm working on a similar problem, https://www.thawd.net

Thawd focuses on getting groups of people out to events, not just one at a time. The idea is you tell the app what you want to do, and Thawd will find other people interested in the same thing and use personality matching to create groups of people who can hang out and have a good time together.

Hoping to get submitted to app stores by EOW.

(and yes, turns out getting users is easy, getting events is the hard part!)

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Post by tacon »

jborichevskiy wrote: post #11

Somewhat related note: as someone living in a major city I find it increasingly hard to discover relevant events happening soon/around me. Events I'm looking for span a range of interests, artists, bands, topics, hobbies, and causes - hence no one central location has a list of everything relevant to me. So I'm forced to regularly dig through Meetup, Eventbrite, Facebook, Google Events Search, individual sites, indiv…

>Has anything like this been attempted? Might it work?

It has been tried, and early attempts failed. Jon Udell was one of the drivers behind the Elm City Project, which merged many RSS feeds of calendar information into a uniform resource. [0] Maybe its time has come again.

[0] https://blog.jonudell.net/elmcity-project-faq/

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Post by lozaning »

NikolaeVarius wrote: post #30
nickjj wrote: post #14

This is a good reminder of why I stopped going to most local tech meetups ran by meetup.com. Not because of the upcoming $2 fee, but because most of the time it's a 2 hour tech meetup where you spend 15 minutes mingling at the start, then 1 hour and 30 minutes listening to advertisements disguised as talks where you sit down and remain silent and then another 15 minutes mingling at the end. It feels so corporate and…

2600 still meets, you should hit up your local one.

DefCon groups being a solid alternative if you live in an area that doesnt have a 2600 group.

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Post by hamslamwich »

elandrum wrote: post #163
hamslamwich wrote: post #34

Great list! (tweeted at you too!) We've been cranking away at a better group event/planning platform on https://guestboard.co for a while now (basically Slack meets Evite), but with this news, we're switching up our product roadmap to include recurring events much sooner. Would love the input from any/all. Possibly considering an interim solution of simply cloning an existing event and carrying over the guest list fr…

I saw someone from your team post on r/Sasquatch awhile ago and I meant to check it out. Seems like a lot of great features... but yeah, discovery is really important.

yeaa, that was us!

For public events, discovery is supreme - totally agree. We started as a planning tool for groups to cut down on massive email chains and group texts (hence the festival/Sasquatch use case :) We've got more cooking, especially with this change of events (ha).

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