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

Mobile first open-source RSVP platform. Alternative for meetup.com / eventribe for small companies and groups. If you have a small group and don't want to pay for services you can easily selfhost this solution. Open for improvements and for feedback, ofc.

- One-Click Sharing - Each event gets a unique, memorable URL. Share instantly via any platform or messaging app. - No Hassle, No Sign-Ups - Skip registrations and endless forms. Unlike other event platforms, you create and share instantly — no accounts, no barriers. - Effortless Simplicity - Designed to be instantly clear and easy. No learning curve — just open, create, and go.

Show HN: Meetup.com and eventribe alternative to small groups
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Semi related, but has anyone else noticed a massive surge in Meetup comment spam in the last few months? All my local groups are pumping out spam, mostly offering work from home employment opportunities. I keep wondering what has changed.

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/all family members

- single place to manage all messages with attendees

- easy to start this year's invitation as a copy of last year's

- app that displays the total 'yes' folks, split by adult, child, infant

It's totally worth the money for the time it saves and the ease of use for guests.

But I'm surprised that AFAIK there's no open source thing that's as easy to use, and that includes all the features I listed.

Great start!

My first action after creating the event was to try to edit it and I realized I couldn't do that cuz I don't have an account or authorization to edit it.

Is editing in the works?

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 this benefit me as an organizer? How can local people find my event without me having to spam it on services(Facebook, etc) that they already have accounts on?