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Does this mean that meetup.com will actually stop being terrible now? They've been stagnating and coasting on their market share for years.
I don't know if this is market failure or what, but if anybody wants to create a better replacement HMU.
This seems like yet another example of how tech’s ridiculous focus on ambition and growth are going to kill something that’s just fine the way it is. I’m a fan of Meetup.com, and it sounds like they are/were self-sufficient, but suddenly the cofounder and CEO thinks they need to grow to a “billion members”. Sad.
Does this mean that meetup.com will actually stop being terrible now? They've been stagnating and coasting on their market share for years.
These Eventbrite callouts are one of my very favorite internet idiocies: https://www.meetup.com/sf-DevOps/events/244362411/ I don't know if this is market failure or what, but if anybody wants to create a better replacement HMU.
As for building a new one, would be interesting to explore which angle on the market do you tackle? Eventbrite? FB groups? etc.
I think EventBrite really put a dagger into Meetup five years ago or so, and proved that what customers actually want is not another social network but just a best-of-breed ticketing/booking/rsvp tool. I think Meetup tried for a while to pretend this was not the case, despite the evidence of groups fleeing their platform.
Interestingly, it's not just b/c organizers want to get paid. In my experience the only way to get people to reliably show up for an event is to get them to pay (even a nominal amount) and payments were just a bolted-on afterthought for Meetup.
I have some doubts that Facebook will come to dominate this niche, particularly when it comes to professional meetups/groups as many people keep their FB network and their professional network quite separate.
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These Eventbrite callouts are one of my very favorite internet idiocies: https://www.meetup.com/sf-DevOps/events/244362411/ I don't know if this is market failure or what, but if anybody wants to create a better replacement HMU.
I've run hundreds of events through refreshmiami and the garbage ticketing system meetup gave us years ago made us rely on eventbrite. We get way better email tools and analytics on eventbrite. From my org alone, meetup has lost out on thousands of $ in fees. As for building a new one, would be interesting to explore which angle on the market do you tackle? Eventbrite? FB groups? etc.
Still, a better one might exist, and since there's no friendsters on Meetup (tmk) switching costs are lower if people only need to create an account and join a group (i.e. where Meetup pretty much stopped developing).
Is Meetup popular outside of NYC? Every time I've looked at non-tech meetups outside of the area, the offerings seemed scarce.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've run hundreds of events through refreshmiami and the garbage ticketing system meetup gave us years ago made us rely on eventbrite. We get way better email tools and analytics on eventbrite. From my org alone, meetup has lost out on thousands of $ in fees. As for building a new one, would be interesting to explore which angle on the market do you tackle? Eventbrite? FB groups? etc.
You make me wonder if Eventbrite might be that solution, do they not have groups? Still, a better one might exist, and since there's no friendsters on Meetup (tmk) switching costs are lower if people only need to create an account and join a group (i.e. where Meetup pretty much stopped developing).