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by radius89 2y ago
> This sounds great. I will mention to some folks I know, that might be able to use it. Thanks, that'd be awesome! And that sounds like most of the experiences I've heard - their pricing options really aren't great. > O
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by radius89 2y ago
Good suggestion, thanks!
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by radius89 2y ago
> how simple it is to register an account I think the sign-up flow is super minimal/easy at this point, but I'd love any suggestions you've got in mind. Relevant features I'll be adding to make it easier:- - Sign-in w
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by radius89 2y ago
Thanks again for this comment. Having thought about it a little, I'm going to try and address this by:- - Adding a Pledge/Goals page with my plan for the platform - Adding a Pricing page with Free and Pro (Coming soon) options - A
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by radius89 2y ago
Thanks! Yeah ticketing is a feature on my Trello todo list! For now, I'm just linking a "Tickets" button to whatever external provider the organiser wants to use.
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by radius89 2y ago
Hey, thanks for sharing your industry experience! For 5. in particular, I have a general vision of what I want the platform to be but it's always changing with new ideas here and there, and also have to consider user feedback like you
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by radius89 2y ago
> i hate having to sign up manually >:( Likewise, sorry about that! I'll bump this up on the Trello board!
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by radius89 2y ago
Thanks!
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by radius89 2y ago
Thanks, Simmon!
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by radius89 2y ago
> Great idea Thanks! > But that website is cold and stark, the opposite of what a human-interaction should be. Find some (quality) stock photos of actual people to add to the landing page. I have to agree! You should have seen previo
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by radius89 2y ago
Ahh, thanks for reporting this! Will fix it in the next release!
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by radius89 2y ago
> So I've added radius.to to that. Hey, thanks! Much appreciated! > Discoverability. meetup.com wins by having a list of events which is not just searchable and taggable etc, but also massive. So people just browse on there and
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by radius89 2y ago
Hey, nice! Good luck with it! Feel free to reach out (email or Twitter) if you want to bounce ideas off each other or just have a chat!
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by radius89 2y ago
I haven't implemented anything for this yet, only thought about it - but I think the OpenAI API would be able to handle moderation/approval if done correctly. I'd assume major platforms are already doing this but there are p
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by radius89 2y ago
Awesome suggestion, thanks!
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by radius89 2y ago
> How do you plan to make money? Without a visible monetization model, my main concern switching to your platform would be the longevity of the platform and the risk of building up an audience there. Maybe this is something the community
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by radius89 2y ago
> 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
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by radius89 2y ago
> I think of Garry Tan's Posthaven as a good model. [1] This is an awesome suggestion - definitely stealing that idea. Thanks!
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by radius89 2y ago
> It'd be nice knowing right of the bat if the email I sign up with ( https://www.radius.to/users/sign_up ) will be shared with other users or not. Great suggestion - I'll add that to the sign-up form! >
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by radius89 2y ago
Thanks for the feedback and the kind offer, Rick - I'll definitely take you up on that and reach out!
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by radius89 2y ago
> 1. Right now, the benefit of Meetup is natural discoverability. I can set and forget an event with no advertising and people will find it and show up. That's not true of any of the other event websites. This may be specific to the
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by radius89 2y ago
Just had a notification from Heroku to say they're upgrading my database and it'll be in read-only mode for the next 15 minutes. Great timing.. :) - sorry to anyone who tried to sign up just now if you had an error.
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by radius89 2y ago
> land-and-expand rollout Hey, thanks! That's exactly what I'd planned - didn't realise there was a term for it heh! Still very much focusing on feedback and iterating so group locations are a bit all over the place just n
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by radius89 2y ago
> you can't make money with a user-friendly platform for hosting community groups Well, hopefully, you're wrong! The gist of my plan is to focus on a broader range of groups/communities, with the larger groups who want&#x2
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by radius89 2y ago
> While true, a side effect of this is that groups that aren't active anymore eventually get deisted, because nobody wants to pay Meetup's prices to keep a dead group online. Once you get discovery up and running, I'd be c
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by radius89 2y ago
Agreed! Thanks for the feedback. Initially, I was focusing on feature development on the discovery/search side, but after speaking with some initial groups - none of them cared about discovery (although being found easily would obviou
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by radius89 2y ago
I probably need to clarify that so thanks for mentioning this - search isn't an active feature at the moment - I'm focusing on the organiser side for now before opening that side up, as there aren't enough events currently fo
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by radius89 2y ago
Thanks for pointing that out! I'll need to update that - guidelines aren't something I've thought about in a great amount of detail, but I'd imagine there are some existing policies out there I can take inspiration from
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Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com alternative(radius.to)
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by radius89 2y ago
Love the name, and your domain choice! Personally, I'd consider putting the copy about nested kanbans and it being open source in the centred text at the top of your page - these seem like the main selling points. Also perhaps add a hi

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