Live data from Hacker News

Meetup.com alternatives

phacks.dev

231–240 of 300 posts

Re: Meetup.com alternatives

#231
A plea to anyone working on a meetup.com alternative - make sure good Open Data Feeds are baked into to whatever you do.

There is already a industry standard in ical/ics - this should be your first feed. Another reason to add this one - regular attendees of a group who are keen can import this straight into their personal calendars and get details of all upcoming events.

After that, I'm less opinionated on what format you should use. https://schema.org/Event will help your SEO so that's a plus.

Do others have comments on what open data format to use?

As someone who has worked on an event aggregator for years, getting good information out of event organisers is very difficult. If they are taking the time to update your site with info, making it so it can be passed on is really helpful. (If they want of course, privacy controls, but in my experience almost all events want more publicity)

Re: Meetup.com alternatives

#232

Somewhat related note: as someone living in a major city I find it increasingly hard to discover relevant events happening soon/around me. Events I'm looking for span a range of interests, artists, bands, topics, hobbies, and causes - hence no one central location has a list of everything relevant to me. So I'm forced to regularly dig through Meetup, Eventbrite, Facebook, Google Events Search, individual sites, indiv…

Mobilizon looks like it's on the right track but my biggest concern is seeding it: the first version of any such aggregator should pull from existing repositories of events to allow discovery (while still forwarding actual registration to the original source site). I do like the fact that they have an event-publishing tool and the option to self-host. > Framasoft wants to create Mobilizon: free/libre software that wi…

I was never sure if Mobilizon was in this space - there is a difference between a system that lets an event organiser host events and one that lets keen people aggregate events from other places that aren't Mobilizon installs. Do we know more about their plans yet?

Re: Meetup.com alternatives

#233

Somewhat related note: as someone living in a major city I find it increasingly hard to discover relevant events happening soon/around me. Events I'm looking for span a range of interests, artists, bands, topics, hobbies, and causes - hence no one central location has a list of everything relevant to me. So I'm forced to regularly dig through Meetup, Eventbrite, Facebook, Google Events Search, individual sites, indiv…

I've been aggregating data from Meetup and many other sources for years: http://techeventsnetwork.com/cities/ and then pipe it into city-specific Twitter accounts: https://twitter.com/CaseySoftware/lists/tech-events-network/... It's only tech events in the US but a fairly exhaustive list. I've played with a recommendation engine but haven't fully baked it into the systems yet.

Hello from https://opentechcalendar.co.uk/ :-) We import a lot of our listings from meetup.com and ical/ics.

Re: Meetup.com alternatives

#234
post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would have been OK with We buying Meetup if they offered their space for meetups ... but alas ... they did literally nothing and likely we'll see that the product was killed in the end.

Meetup.com does let organisers book WeWork spaces. Free.

Yeah, they kept hassling me for months trying to get me to use 4-8 people spaces for our meetups which have 60-80 people.

Re: Meetup.com alternatives

#235
I'm a meetup organizer as well (over 3.5K members and over 500 attendees to our mostly free events) so this is hitting us hard.

My team is working on a virtual event spaces app called Morphus, https://www.morphus.ai. We aim to create a 2.0 Meetup that helps anyone to spin up a virtual space and allow mobile, desktop, and VR users to join events.

As an organizer myself I'll be focusing on helping communities better manage their members and also create a more interactive and fun environment for everyone.

Any feedback appreciated :)

https://www.morphus.ai

Re: Meetup.com alternatives

#236

I'm a meetup organizer as well (over 3.5K members and over 500 attendees to our mostly free events) so this is hitting us hard. My team is working on a virtual event spaces app called Morphus, https://www.morphus.ai . We aim to create a 2.0 Meetup that helps anyone to spin up a virtual space and allow mobile, desktop, and VR users to join events. As an organizer myself I'll be focusing on helping communities better m…

By the way we aggregate meetups from different sources and map them in the 3D world inside the app.

We've been working on it for the past 2 years and are now finally fundraising. If you can connect us with interested parties to create futuristic next generation event platform do let me know, very curious. (I know it's self promotion but I'm sick of meetup at this point)

Re: Meetup.com alternatives

#237

I'm a meetup organizer as well (over 3.5K members and over 500 attendees to our mostly free events) so this is hitting us hard. My team is working on a virtual event spaces app called Morphus, https://www.morphus.ai . We aim to create a 2.0 Meetup that helps anyone to spin up a virtual space and allow mobile, desktop, and VR users to join events. As an organizer myself I'll be focusing on helping communities better m…

Oh and it's free because we suck at monetizing XD

Re: Meetup.com alternatives

#238
post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We soft launched it in a few cities only and it was easier to implement that way. I've added Tokyo for you now though. If there are any others you'd like me to add, post them in a comment here please.

"I've added Tokyo" But for Tokyo, these are the results: > Events > No events in your city > Communities > No communities in your city > Sponsors > No sponsors in your city Or do you mean that now we can create events, communities and sponsors?

That's right, you can now start adding them.

Re: Meetup.com alternatives

#239
post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We soft launched it in a few cities only and it was easier to implement that way. I've added Tokyo for you now though. If there are any others you'd like me to add, post them in a comment here please.

Pls add Belgrade, Serbia

Added

Re: Meetup.com alternatives

#240

The list: https://emamo.com https://kommunity.com https://joinmobilizon.org/en https://cete.io (not yet launched?) https://eventy.io (not yet launched) And the not-yet-build one by FreeCodeCamp: https://twitter.com/ossia/status/1183845054449930241 I've never heard of any of them. Opinions?

This is the repo for the FreeCodeCamp project if you're interested: https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/chapter
Post reply on HN