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Re: Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com alternative

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Post by aloisdg »

com wrote: post #105
justincarter wrote: post #75

Hey I think this is a great idea! In fact I am working on putting together something similar! The apps in the meetup space are so bad there is a lot of potential here for new platforms. It is interesting that both you and the comments are focused on event discovery. I am looking at it from a different angle. I am looking for a platform that can keep a calendar of events and rsvps for already-established small nonprof…

Consider something like Mobilizon[0] - it's ActivityPub based, like Mastodon, but apart from the federation capability, might have the feature set you're looking for? [0] https://joinmobilizon.org/en/

Cam here to talk about mobilizon. The project is quite easy to work on and it is made in Elixir. :)

Re: Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com alternative

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Post by aloisdg »

pietervdvn wrote: post #37

To be a bit blunt: I don't feel the need to have yet another centralized meetup tool. I'd rather have federated tools such as Gancio ( https://gancio.org/ ) or Mobilizon ( https://mobilizon.org/en/ ), which both can push scheduled events into Mastodon and can exchange events among them. This way, one is insulated against enshittification and abuse of network effects.

Mobilizon use ActivityPub. Some stuff are missing (like recurring event) but it works well

Re: Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com alternative

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Post by cryptonector »

radius89 wrote: post #27
jacobgkau wrote: post #16

I've been using Meetup heavily for years, and I've met most of my friends in my current city at Meetups. I also used to host one in my previous city. However, the Meetup website and app are garbage (especially with things being slow or straight-up failing to load) and have only been getting worse (other than the recently-added Connections feature, which is nice in theory but basically nobody uses). So naturally, a co…

> While true, a side effect of this is that groups that aren't active anymore eventually get deisted, because nobody wants to pay Meetup's prices to keep a dead group online. Once you get discovery up and running, I'd be curious to see how cluttered the website gets with inactive groups, especially over time. Yeah, that would be interesting to see! If a free option was always available then I'd assume the amount of g…

Re: dead groups, activity level / recency of activity needs to be a search parameter.

Re: Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com alternative

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Post by rixed »

macintux wrote: post #99
rixed wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Such a simple thing as a meetup clone does not cost much to host, and is therefore immediately economically sustainable. The real concern is, as usual: is it easy to move from meetup to there, will my friends do it, etc, which depends on: - how simple it is to register an account - how certain are we this is not going to take the same path to profit than meetup An example I often consider is that of bewelcome.org, th…

It may not cost much to host, but does it cost much to moderate?

Maybe it's easy to self-moderate because there are few opportunities for spamming in a site like bewelcome, because most communications are one to one (forums are, in my experience, not very active). Might be harder for a meetup clone, I don't know.

Re: Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com alternative

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Post by irisguy »

Looks great! I finished making a carpooling site a few weeks ago that automatches people into the optimal groups based on their location. Your site would work really well with mines: https://antride.ca/. Would appreciate if you could share my site to group organizers.

rough video demo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToVn8tVQ0cc

Re: Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com alternative

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Post by irisguy »

mvexel wrote: post #113
DANmode wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are your top Meetup.com pain-points?

After the most recent price hike ($16 to almost $30/mo for the "basic" organizer plan) I decided to quit Meetup as the host of two groups after more than a decade. It's not just the money, since you were asking about pain points: * Notifications I get on iOS are pretty much the opposite of how I set them up; I ask for relevant notifications about people RSVP-ing and commenting on my events, instead I get notification…

I finished making a carpooling site a few weeks ago that automatches people into the optimal groups based on their location. My site might be a good use case for you: https://antride.ca/. Would appreciate if you consider using it to save people gas and carbon emissions :)

Re: Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com alternative

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Post by cbeach »

thruway516 wrote: post #116
cbeach wrote: post #111

I created an account, saw there were no meetups visible at all, and I probably won't return to the site. I think the announcement on HN was a little premature, but I wish you the best of luck.

Chicken and egg problem. Look at all the attention and new sign-ups they've gotten with the HN announcement. How do you get up to the stage where it is not premature to announce without announcing? Lol

They launched it on HN with discovery features missing or disabled.

So it comes across like a Google Forms website at this point, accepting data and revealing nothing in response.

I don't wish to be negative about the creators of the site. I wish them the best of luck.

Re: Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com alternative

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Post by langsoul-com »

blkhp19 wrote: post #20

Thoughts on https://partiful.com ?

Partiful is different from hosting public events. One thing is there's no way to search existing events in x city. Which also means there's no natural advertising of the event.

It's more for friends or mutual friends trying to organise an event together.

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