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.

serial_dev 20 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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."

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darkwater a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Did users leave for other products/solutions?

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mosura 21 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Luma is the current version of that idea so yes.

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DetroitThrow 21 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

yes, _every_ event I go uses Luma or something else nowadays.

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darkwater 21 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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.

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senko 21 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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.

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financetechbro 11 hours ago | parent [-]

There is also Partiful

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		Which has ties to Palantir

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listenallyall 21 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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