Meetup has been acquired by Bending Spoons

Re:Meetup has been acquired by Bending Spoons by AlbertCory on Thursday January 11, 2024 @12:57PM (#38955938)

Nearly all these comments are about tech meetups. My first introduction to Meetup, though, was a long time ago for non-work groups: hiking, movies, dinners, cooking, dogs. I still go to my movie meetups sometimes. There still are hiking events. I thought of Meetup as something that ought to be a 501(c)(3).

I have to say that the tech meetups I belong to have about 10x the number of signups.

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Re:Meetup has been acquired by Bending Spoons by bdcravens on Thursday January 11, 2024 @01:20PM (#38956313)

That's the problem for Meetup and most SaaS apps: they aren't running a charity, and need to match up their offerings and demand with those who are willing to pay for their service.

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Re:Meetup has been acquired by Bending Spoons by AlbertCory on Thursday January 11, 2024 @02:34PM (#38957628)

Better as a charity, IMHO.

I hosted a movie meetup to see Moneyball. Afterwards, I asked the group, "How many liked the movie?" Every hand went up.

Then I asked, "How many are baseball fans?" No hands went up.

Good times.

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Re:Meetup has been acquired by Bending Spoons by nunez on Friday January 12, 2024 @10:36AM (#38969280)

Impossible here in Texas.

I strongly dislike sports. It is extremely difficult to find other men that do here. By "extremely difficult," I mean "you're going way out of your way to find them"

Meetup was a great place to find those people, but the platform seems mostly dormant.

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Re:Meetup has been acquired by Bending Spoons by AlbertCory on Friday January 12, 2024 @11:38AM (#38970225)

These were almost all immigrant, mostly women: Indians and Chinese. Hey, this is California.

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Re:Meetup has been acquired by Bending Spoons by nunez on Sunday January 14, 2024 @05:57AM (#38989347)

Bot?

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Re:Meetup has been acquired by Bending Spoons by hugocast on Thursday January 11, 2024 @01:12PM (#38956174)

Mine too. I used to co-host a "New in town" meetup and had a blast the whole time.

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