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| ▲ | Glawen 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I'm discovering Bending Sppon withn this thread, and I think they really got their business right. I hope they IPO soon |
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| ▲ | gulugawa 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Considering what Bending Spoons did to Meetup.com after buying the site, I wouldn't trust them to improve a product. Here are some of the issues I noticed. - Group searches consistently return irrelevant results across multiple cities. As a test, I tried searching for soccer groups in Dallas, Texas, and one of the results was for a backgammon group. Users will also often have a hard time finding events I host on Meetup.
- An organizer being charged $357.98 per year to host a group on Meetup.com.
- The pages for my Meetup events are full of clutter and duplicate data, while relevant information such as RSVPs is hidden.
- My Meetup.com home page is full of pointless distractions, including a banner asking me to become an organizer when I already organize events.
- When editing an event, Meetup shows an option to generate a description by using generative AI. Generative AI is a scam and I try to avoid it. That being said, you are right that they are becoming more expensive and ship features faster. I describe Bending Spoons as Italian private equity. |
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| ▲ | dangoor 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | As a heavy Meetup user, I can say that Bending Spoons absolutely fixed some glaring, long-standing bugs. But their massive price increases have really driven people away, and some of their attempts to grab more money (Meetup+) really rankled a lot of people. Also, search still sucks. |
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| ▲ | red-iron-pine 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Enshitification As A Service (EaaS) |
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| ▲ | altairprime 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Honestly, I wish more businesses would do this. It turns out that grandiose dreams make grandiose staffing, but a lot of great business ideas would thrive and bloom if the gardeners would just prune them back more often. |
