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After they acquired Meetup.com, subscription prices skyrocketed while nothing useful was added to the product. 29€ a month just to host a meetup page with RSVP

After they acquired Meetup.com, subscription prices skyrocketed while nothing useful was added to the product. 29€ a month just to host a meetup page with RSVPs.

darkwater 2mo ago
Did users leave for other products/solutions?
- mosura 2mo ago
  Luma is the current version of that idea so yes.
- DetroitThrow 2mo ago
  yes, _every_ event I go uses Luma or something else nowadays.
  - senko 2mo ago
    I've been researching the alternatives as I've been really.annoyed by the Meetup.com enshittification. Any other platforms besides Luma you hear about? I know some lean on WhatsApp, some tried to use FB or even LinkedIn events but these are really made for different use cases.
    - financetechbro 2mo ago
      There is also Partiful
      - fragmede 2mo ago
        Which has ties to Palantir
    - sunnybeetroot 2mo ago
      Apple invites?
  - darkwater 2mo ago
    Cool that there is something else. There was also EventBrite but I guess that got enshittified as well. Anyway my question was more in the realm of: if people stays, their play works. Not justifying the modus operandi, just stating that there is indeed space for Bending Spoons' MO. Not all the cool hipster SV tech startups end up being a planetary success, some of them end up in this zombie state.
    - saaaaaam 2mo ago
      Bending Spoons also bought Eventbrite.
- __s 2mo ago
  One group I followed switched to LinkedIn
listenallyall 2mo ago
And yet, with all the promise of vibecoding and AI, nobody has created a clone that undercuts it in price.
serial_dev 2mo ago
Was anything else needed to be added to the product? I was fine with meetup.com in its original form: it had the community of people wanting to go to events, it let you share your events to these people. People showed up to events. And the price you pay is for you to access their users. If you think it's just an RSVP page, vibe code one in 5 minutes and try and see how many people will show up to your events. It's a modern product development failure to think that you must be adding new features all the time. "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
- eventualcomp 2mo ago
  Did you deliberately not address the prices skyrocketing comment? Not that the price is what it is, but that the price changed?

After they acquired Meetup.com, subscription prices skyrocketed while nothing useful was added to the product. 29€ a month just to host a meetup page with RSVPs.

darkwater 2mo ago

Did users leave for other products/solutions?

mosura 2mo ago
Luma is the current version of that idea so yes.
DetroitThrow 2mo ago
yes, _every_ event I go uses Luma or something else nowadays.
- senko 2mo ago
  I've been researching the alternatives as I've been really.annoyed by the Meetup.com enshittification. Any other platforms besides Luma you hear about? I know some lean on WhatsApp, some tried to use FB or even LinkedIn events but these are really made for different use cases.
  - financetechbro 2mo ago
    There is also Partiful
    - fragmede 2mo ago
      Which has ties to Palantir
  - sunnybeetroot 2mo ago
    Apple invites?
- darkwater 2mo ago
  Cool that there is something else. There was also EventBrite but I guess that got enshittified as well. Anyway my question was more in the realm of: if people stays, their play works. Not justifying the modus operandi, just stating that there is indeed space for Bending Spoons' MO. Not all the cool hipster SV tech startups end up being a planetary success, some of them end up in this zombie state.
  - saaaaaam 2mo ago
    Bending Spoons also bought Eventbrite.
__s 2mo ago
One group I followed switched to LinkedIn

listenallyall 2mo ago

And yet, with all the promise of vibecoding and AI, nobody has created a clone that undercuts it in price.

serial_dev 2mo ago

Was anything else needed to be added to the product? I was fine with meetup.com in its original form: it had the community of people wanting to go to events, it let you share your events to these people. People showed up to events. And the price you pay is for you to access their users. If you think it's just an RSVP page, vibe code one in 5 minutes and try and see how many people will show up to your events. It's a modern product development failure to think that you must be adding new features all the time. "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

eventualcomp 2mo ago
Did you deliberately not address the prices skyrocketing comment? Not that the price is what it is, but that the price changed?