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A little feedback: When I click "Notify me" on the front page, it takes me a sign-in form. I enter my email and a random password (since I don't have account yet), and then it tells me I don't have an account yet. I click "Sign Up" at the top and am taken to an account creation page. I then remember that all I wanted to do was sign up for the announcements email list, not create an account yet. why am I jumping throu…
This sounds great. I will mention to some folks I know, that might be able to use it. Meetup.com was a good idea, but I found them to be useless. Here's my experience: I was interested in hosting local meetups for techhies. I wanted to do it around Swift, so I knew there wouldn't be many of us. Meetup had two "paid" tiers. One, was up to about 20 people per meetup, and the other (more money), was for an unlimited num…
Thanks, that'd be awesome!
And that sounds like most of the experiences I've heard - their pricing options really aren't great.
> Once I started posting meetups, though, I started getting a lot of bogus signups. They were clearly bogus, as many had nothing to do with tech, or were unreasonably far away (like New Jersey or Upstate). I suspect most, if not all, were fake profiles. These signups filled the meetups, so I would get like, one real person showing up. All the rest were no-shows.
I know no-shows are a big problem but spam/fake sign-ups - that's a weird one, and not one I'd considered! Was this recently? I'd assume something like this would have been easy to fix by requiring email confirmation on your account sign-up.
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Agreed! Thanks for the feedback. Initially, I was focusing on feature development on the discovery/search side, but after speaking with some initial groups - none of them cared about discovery (although being found easily would obviously be great for them too) - they just wanted a place to be able to gather RSVPs for events, and a page to post events on easily. So, the plan is to focus on the organiser side for now a…
I ctrl-F'd "critical mass" and it turns out the point has already been made! I had a similar idea years ago (and never got around to doing anything) and concluded I'd do the same as you, focus heavily on getting enough people using it in one place at a time... The other thing I'd say is that "event" could have a broader meaning than the meetup/facebook definition. Sale at a local shop? Someone's giving away a piano?…
Yep, exactly! I've been trying to find a better term than "event" or "activity" for "things to do" or "things happening around you", but I think these phrases are the best I'll get. That's part of the problem with Meetup - it's fine(ish) for finding events of a certain type but there's so much other stuff that's not on there.
If you're looking for a way to fill the month ahead, or your weekend with stuff to do, you have to scout the info from tons of separate sources.
I run a meet up group of about 1000 members for a makerspace in the Chicago suburbs. I’m glad to see alternatives coming about, but I’m also somewhat skeptical this can actually solve our dissatisfaction with Meetup. As an event organizer, I don’t really need that many fancy features. I need a product that is moderately priced and will actually get people to walk in the door when I schedule an event. Focus on buildin…
Would you be willing to share the name of the makerspace/event? I'm in NW suburbs and have been looking for something similar, but can't seem to find anything good on meetup... Thank you in advance!
This sounds great. I will mention to some folks I know, that might be able to use it. Meetup.com was a good idea, but I found them to be useless. Here's my experience: I was interested in hosting local meetups for techhies. I wanted to do it around Swift, so I knew there wouldn't be many of us. Meetup had two "paid" tiers. One, was up to about 20 people per meetup, and the other (more money), was for an unlimited num…
> This sounds great. I will mention to some folks I know, that might be able to use it. Thanks, that'd be awesome! And that sounds like most of the experiences I've heard - their pricing options really aren't great. > Once I started posting meetups, though, I started getting a lot of bogus signups. They were clearly bogus, as many had nothing to do with tech, or were unreasonably far away (like New Jersey or Upstate)…
The issue was that these filled up the meetup, so real people would be shown a page, saying the meetup was full, and would they like to be on a waiting list?
I didn’t really want to make people jump through extra hoops, to sign up. It was an obscure topic.
TBH, I was damn pissed, when it started happening, and dropped the service right away. I didn’t spend any time, trying to figure out ways to combat it.