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Ask HN: Are Tech Meetups Dead?
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#22In my experience, any meetup > 10 people becomes useless because you cannot really make meaningful connections and large meetups usually have a fixed agenda where everyone is out there selling their own stuff. I now will not attend a meetup unless it is extremely small group (<10 people). Those are hard to sustain though.
this. the meetups i was a part of devolved into product pitches and people looking for jobs
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#23Some of the better surviving meetups focus less on a common tool than on a shared problem (like regulatory capture) or a colaborative activity (let's update our neighborhood's Wikipedia related pages).
Re: Ask HN: Are Tech Meetups Dead?
#24In my experience, any meetup > 10 people becomes useless because you cannot really make meaningful connections and large meetups usually have a fixed agenda where everyone is out there selling their own stuff. I now will not attend a meetup unless it is extremely small group (<10 people). Those are hard to sustain though.
this. the meetups i was a part of devolved into product pitches and people looking for jobs
The coworking space I was at back in 2013 held regular weekly meetups in the common space. Sometimes cool tech was shown off, but a ton of promo talks was common. I won't say no to free pizza though.
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#25Maybe I'm old but I feel like actual tech meetups died well over a decade ago... They used to be full of geeks building cool stuff and people would genuinely be interested in what you were doing. I made a lot of friends back in the day from those tech meetups. What you're describing here is exactly why I dislike and avoid meetups today. There was a shift somewhere in the 2010s where it started to become harder and ha…
I am definitely old, because I never noticed that "tech meetups" had become a thing in the first place!
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#26not dead, they are on "luma". quality is higher in some ways, lower in some ways when compared to "old school" meetups
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#27I imagine it depends on location as I have seen some end in some places, and in other places there seem to be active meetupd
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#28I've seen maybe five big Meetup groups here that were pretty active pre-COVID get abandoned and looking for a new organizer. It's sad.
We had a big thriving Microsoft focused community here with multiple Meetup groups and multiple events every month but that died down as they laid off developer evangelists and then closed the local Microsoft office about 2 years ago.
There is a big, broad tech Meetup group here that's kind of thriving but their biggest draw events are "anything mentioning AI" meh. It's hard for them to find places to meet that can accommodate 50-100 visitors.
Re: Ask HN: Are Tech Meetups Dead?
#29In my experience, any meetup > 10 people becomes useless because you cannot really make meaningful connections and large meetups usually have a fixed agenda where everyone is out there selling their own stuff. I now will not attend a meetup unless it is extremely small group (<10 people). Those are hard to sustain though.
this. the meetups i was a part of devolved into product pitches and people looking for jobs
Sounds like the same problem with meetups. Some people are there for dating, some people are there for .
Thing is, people have to realize this because mixing the two leads to misery.
Maybe they have to be explicitly told not to put their foot in it.
Re: Ask HN: Are Tech Meetups Dead?
#30not dead, they are on "luma". quality is higher in some ways, lower in some ways when compared to "old school" meetups
I looked at Luma, but the website shows that for the part of Western Europe I'm in, it only supports Amsterdam or Brussels. Not even Cologne. Or am I using their website wrong?