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Re: Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com alternative

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Post by radius89 »

stavros wrote: post #59
DANmode wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are your top Meetup.com pain-points?

I always set up the same event, at the same place, etc, yet it's hard to just say "use all the values from the previous one". It doesn't have many ways to communicate with members, so I've set up a Discord server instead, which is fine. The UI is a bit confusing if you need to do anything other than set up an event. Most crucially of all, members complain that emails don't reach them, which is terrible, because then…

> yet it's hard to just say "use all the values from the previous one"

Whaa- I'm kind of amazed they don't have this given how easy it would be to add.

I just added this exact feature to Radius because our event form was growing and becoming quite painful to fill out - it's just a dropdown with previous events at the top of the event form, nothing complex, but a huge time saver.

Re: Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com alternative

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Post by johnnymellor »

Many communities would like to have a page/ical that lists all the events going on in that community. But event organisers are often busy, and by the time they've posted on WhatsApp and Facebook and Meetup they won't necessarily bother to post here too, especially when there are multiple organisers within a community, and due to the chicken and egg problem of it only being worth posting here if all of the community's other events are also listed here.

What would help is if engaged community members can collaboratively list events that event organisers have posted elsewhere, so that community members can find all the community's events in one place (here) even if the event organisers don't bother to post them here themselves. This raises a few auth complications, e.g. if the event organiser wants to post their event ideally they'd be able to take ownership of the placeholder event uploaded by the community member. But if you can solve those, seeing all their events in one place might be a compelling reason for communities to organically switch over to your platform (at which point event organisers might well also follow).

Re: Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com alternative

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Post by justincarter »

Hey I think this is a great idea! In fact I am working on putting together something similar! The apps in the meetup space are so bad there is a lot of potential here for new platforms.

It is interesting that both you and the comments are focused on event discovery. I am looking at it from a different angle. I am looking for a platform that can keep a calendar of events and rsvps for already-established small nonprofits and community groups - like book clubs, board meetings, local political groups, etc. In my opinion there are lot of social networks that are doing a decent job of event discovery out there (as much as you can in our very fragmented world). The problem is organizing who is going to what without using Outlook, Google Calendar, etc. - also with better options for recurring events and notifications/reminders, and something non-tech-savvy people can use.

Re: Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com alternative

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Post by huimang »

I wish this project well but the main problem here is the network effect. Pretty much everyone I know is on meetup, and if they're not, they're on facebook. The experience isn't great but good luck getting anyone to sign up to a new random site. It's also very risky for people hosting events to switch over.

So I would focus on that more than any technical features other than group/event discovery.

Re: Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com alternative

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Post by mos_6502 »

Hey!

I run a large Meetup group for software developers in the Tampa Bay Area [0]

We’re multi-platform, and essentially a technology vendor for other Meetup groups in Tampa ([1]). While our overall community spans ~4,000 distinct people, only ~2,300 of those are Meetup members [1],[2]

I’ve built a ton of unique integrations around Meetup, and have built a ton of custom integrations with Meetup’s API (such as [3],[4])

If you’d like to get in touch, please do send an email to the address on our GitHub org [5]. Would love to see more competition in this space!

[0] https://tampadevs.com

[1] https://tampa.dev

[2] https://go.tampa.dev/meetup

[3] https://github.com/tampadevs/events.api.tampa.dev

[4] https://go.tampa.dev/unityops

[5] https://github.com/tampadevs

Re: Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com alternative

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Post by DANmode »

radius89 wrote: post #71
stavros wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I always set up the same event, at the same place, etc, yet it's hard to just say "use all the values from the previous one". It doesn't have many ways to communicate with members, so I've set up a Discord server instead, which is fine. The UI is a bit confusing if you need to do anything other than set up an event. Most crucially of all, members complain that emails don't reach them, which is terrible, because then…

> yet it's hard to just say "use all the values from the previous one" Whaa- I'm kind of amazed they don't have this given how easy it would be to add. I just added this exact feature to Radius because our event form was growing and becoming quite painful to fill out - it's just a dropdown with previous events at the top of the event form, nothing complex, but a huge time saver.

Why improve the product when you can coast on your brand's previously earned credibility until you sell again?!

(/s, just in case)

Re: Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com alternative

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Post by paimoe »

stavros wrote: post #59
DANmode wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are your top Meetup.com pain-points?

I always set up the same event, at the same place, etc, yet it's hard to just say "use all the values from the previous one". It doesn't have many ways to communicate with members, so I've set up a Discord server instead, which is fine. The UI is a bit confusing if you need to do anything other than set up an event. Most crucially of all, members complain that emails don't reach them, which is terrible, because then…

I do similar, but there is a "Copy event" button that I can use (and then just change the date). Is that available for you?

Don't think I have anything super premium, but am an organiser of the group

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