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I'm often thinking about building a better Meetup, it's so expensive for organizers these days. But then I acknowledge the network effects and I give up. And th

by mmarian 5mo ago

I'm often thinking about building a better Meetup, it's so expensive for organizers these days. But then I acknowledge the network effects and I give up. And they own Eventbrite too! Savvy people.

baron816 5mo ago
Isn’t this just Luma?
- mmarian 5mo ago
  See reply I just made in other thread.
- deleted 5mo ago
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burkaman 5mo ago
I see a lot of people using https://luma.com/ https://luma.com/. I'm sure it's not as big as Meetup but it does have a decent community of users, and you can set up pretty much anything with their free plan.
- alephnerd 5mo ago
  At least in the Bay, Luma and Partiful are much bigger than Meetup now.
  - mmarian 5mo ago
    Interesting. Luma is getting traction in London. Not so much outside.
    - alephnerd 5mo ago
      It's about the user bases - Luma and Partiful are almost entirely professionals in careers like Tech, Finance, or Entertainment (especially LA), and the events almost always vet before accepting people. This helps ensure a better noise to signal ratio that Meetup simply couldn't provide.
      - mmarian 5mo ago
        Interesting point, but I personally didn't find Meetup had a noise issue. You could filter for the right stuff, pretty easily. Also I don't see how Luma/Partiful will avoid this problem eventually.
- mmarian 5mo ago
  Luma doesn't do discoverability well unfortunately. Also very tech centric.
  - burkaman 5mo ago
    I think it depends where you are. SF is all tech stuff but https://luma.com/chicago https://luma.com/chicago for example is mostly non-tech.
    - mmarian 5mo ago
      Oh, didn't know that. My perspective is from the UK.
- baggachipz 5mo ago
  I had a good giggle when I opened their homepage and it looks exactly like the Performative-UI library[1] currently in the #1 spot.
  - burkaman 5mo ago
    True, I think they were early to the trend though, it's looked like that basically since they launched: https://web.archive.org/web/20210821023119/https://lu.ma/ https://web.archive.org/web/20210821023119/https://lu.ma/
- gulugawa 5mo ago
  I've looked at Luma and have mixed thoughts. The UI is a massive improvement over Meetup. However, it seems to be following the standard VC funded business model of attracting users and pushing excessive monetization once users are dependent.
bsimpson 5mo ago
Partiful feels like it has replaced Facebook Events, Meetup, and the other formerly-popular hubs for in-person event planning.
- mmarian 5mo ago
  Hmm, didn't know of Partiful. Quick look at landing page, seems more geared to parties and more social media-y? Meetup's event listing was good as it was; well, before they started charging for you to even see who's attending.
  - bsimpson 5mo ago
    In NY + SF, it's used for anything you might want to attend that would be organized by an individual - parties, meetups, food crawls, classes, concerts, local events, etc.
    - mmarian 5mo ago
      Interesting, learned something new, thanks!
gulugawa 5mo ago
I think we should try to build local hobby-specific websites and then have aggregator sites for event discovery. I made one for in person board game events in the Washington DC area at https://dmvboardgames.com/ https://dmvboardgames.com/

by mmarian 5mo ago

I'm often thinking about building a better Meetup, it's so expensive for organizers these days. But then I acknowledge the network effects and I give up. And they own Eventbrite too! Savvy people.

baron816 5mo ago

Isn’t this just Luma?

mmarian 5mo ago
See reply I just made in other thread.
deleted 5mo ago
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burkaman 5mo ago

I see a lot of people using https://luma.com/ https://luma.com/. I'm sure it's not as big as Meetup but it does have a decent community of users, and you can set up pretty much anything with their free plan.

alephnerd 5mo ago
At least in the Bay, Luma and Partiful are much bigger than Meetup now.
- mmarian 5mo ago
  Interesting. Luma is getting traction in London. Not so much outside.
  - alephnerd 5mo ago
    It's about the user bases - Luma and Partiful are almost entirely professionals in careers like Tech, Finance, or Entertainment (especially LA), and the events almost always vet before accepting people. This helps ensure a better noise to signal ratio that Meetup simply couldn't provide.
    - mmarian 5mo ago
      Interesting point, but I personally didn't find Meetup had a noise issue. You could filter for the right stuff, pretty easily. Also I don't see how Luma/Partiful will avoid this problem eventually.
mmarian 5mo ago
Luma doesn't do discoverability well unfortunately. Also very tech centric.
- burkaman 5mo ago
  I think it depends where you are. SF is all tech stuff but https://luma.com/chicago https://luma.com/chicago for example is mostly non-tech.
  - mmarian 5mo ago
    Oh, didn't know that. My perspective is from the UK.
baggachipz 5mo ago
I had a good giggle when I opened their homepage and it looks exactly like the Performative-UI library[1] currently in the #1 spot.
- burkaman 5mo ago
  True, I think they were early to the trend though, it's looked like that basically since they launched: https://web.archive.org/web/20210821023119/https://lu.ma/ https://web.archive.org/web/20210821023119/https://lu.ma/
gulugawa 5mo ago
I've looked at Luma and have mixed thoughts. The UI is a massive improvement over Meetup. However, it seems to be following the standard VC funded business model of attracting users and pushing excessive monetization once users are dependent.

bsimpson 5mo ago

Partiful feels like it has replaced Facebook Events, Meetup, and the other formerly-popular hubs for in-person event planning.

mmarian 5mo ago
Hmm, didn't know of Partiful. Quick look at landing page, seems more geared to parties and more social media-y? Meetup's event listing was good as it was; well, before they started charging for you to even see who's attending.
- bsimpson 5mo ago
  In NY + SF, it's used for anything you might want to attend that would be organized by an individual - parties, meetups, food crawls, classes, concerts, local events, etc.
  - mmarian 5mo ago
    Interesting, learned something new, thanks!

gulugawa 5mo ago

I think we should try to build local hobby-specific websites and then have aggregator sites for event discovery. I made one for in person board game events in the Washington DC area at https://dmvboardgames.com/ https://dmvboardgames.com/