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Re: Meetup.com alternatives

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Post by Cshelton »

narak wrote: post #90
Cshelton wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm actually building something right now. I'm building it because it is a problem I've faced among my friends and well.. the "millennial" generation to begin with. I'm building it first to be used among myself and friends. I don't want to say too much because to me the solution seems so obvious and I'd like to have something out there and tried on a small scale first, but... the key is not to focus on events directl…

Am interested in learning more but your contact info is twitter without DMs open (have to be mutually following). Mind opening DMs or posting your email to the about field on HN? Thanks!

Just opened it!

Re: Meetup.com alternatives

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Post by wolco »

nickjj wrote: post #14

This is a good reminder of why I stopped going to most local tech meetups ran by meetup.com. Not because of the upcoming $2 fee, but because most of the time it's a 2 hour tech meetup where you spend 15 minutes mingling at the start, then 1 hour and 30 minutes listening to advertisements disguised as talks where you sit down and remain silent and then another 15 minutes mingling at the end. It feels so corporate and…

2600 meetings still happen.

The 90s bbs meetings were more fun and usually less tech focused.

Re: Meetup.com alternatives

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Post by sjdb77 »

I feel like every YC batch must get 100 applications for a Meetup alternative. I wonder why nothing has sticked or worked. I find every aspect of Meetup to be very 2010 and hard to use.

Re: Meetup.com alternatives

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Post by phacks »

andjd wrote: post #55
degenerate wrote: post #3

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?

Isn't Eventbrite also a valid alternative, that has the advantage of bing a mature, feature-rich offering? Free events are free, and their profits come from supporting paid events.

It is indeed! Thanks for pointing it out, just added it to the post.

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Post by paulgb »

jumpingmice wrote: post #44
nickjj wrote: post #14

This is a good reminder of why I stopped going to most local tech meetups ran by meetup.com. Not because of the upcoming $2 fee, but because most of the time it's a 2 hour tech meetup where you spend 15 minutes mingling at the start, then 1 hour and 30 minutes listening to advertisements disguised as talks where you sit down and remain silent and then another 15 minutes mingling at the end. It feels so corporate and…

Meetup doesn’t “run” these. You’re just picking boring ones. The only meetup I attend is a bunch of random motorcyclists who go up the coast highway every week. Never felt bored.

They don't run them, but it's sort of intrinsic to their platform that low-budget meetups can't access it, and those can be some of the best because they don't have to answer to sponsors.

I run a "meetup" that is not on Meetup, in part because of the cost (I'm fortunate that in a technical niche community in NYC, word of mouth spreads fast).

Re: Meetup.com alternatives

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Post by intrasight »

So many posts say "Meetup.com sucks but they have 'the community'" I don't understand this sentiment. Your town or city is the community - not some random web site. And your town, if it's like mine, has one ore more newspapers that maintain community events calendars.

And Google manages events now with Google search. I google "beer event pittsburgh" and Google shows me the results.

What exactly is the value-add of meetup.com? An honest question. I attend all kinds of events and I almost never come across meetup.com.

Re: Meetup.com alternatives

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Post by ativzzz »

chrisa wrote: post #77
starpilot wrote: post #72

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There are many other Meetup alternatives being started or in use, included some not listed in OP article. This is not good. There's too much fragmentation in this space and it'll be hard to have the self-sustaining critical mass, and cross-pollination across communities that made Meetup.com effective. I'm in tech, sports, and social Meetup groups. I don't want to join 3 new sites to replace this one.

Yes, I worry about that too - any ideas about how to fix it? One of the things I liked about meetup was that many (most?) groups were hosted on it, but I think what this has shown is that meetup had a kind of monopoly in that way (which wasn't good!)

> Yes, I worry about that too - any ideas about how to fix it?

Create an API that allows any site to be a front-end for meetups, you just store the data. Not sure how willing other sites would be to use this though.

Re: Meetup.com alternatives

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Post by jabvigWe »

degenerate wrote: post #3

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?

https://gettogether.community/ free software, works well.

Re: Meetup.com alternatives

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Post by timotitas »

This is disappointing. I've been using meetup to join mountain bike group rides in my area, they are scarce and not many people show up, but it's been a good experience. Adding a 2$ fee just to confirm assistance will completely make them go extinct. Any good alternatives for non tech activities (sports/social)? I'm already in some facebook/whatsapp groups but there's not much going on. The alternatives listed on the post seem to have either no user base or catered towards tech/corp events

Re: Meetup.com alternatives

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Post by francisofascii »

emptybits wrote: post #10

I fear this $2/attendee grab by Meetup will drive more people to Facebook for finding and planning and advertising events. Sadface. The understandable reason: Facebook is "free" and most of these better alternatives will be fragmented and mainstream unknown for a long time. Maybe one overarching event-search service could help the fragmentation problem, if it doesn't already exist.

Right, I really hate to admit it, but Facebook Events works pretty well for this. (Except for those without Facebook accounts.)
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