Meetup.com just wrote me (and probably all other subscribers), about a price change: from 29 to 99 USD for the six-month subscription! My community has over two thousand members and I'm pretty sure it's partially because Meetup.com is such a well known platform. But our community was always non-profit and I don't think this can work for us anymore.
Give Luma a try. Free tier has fairly generous for now and the UI for community & event management isn't ancient. It also offers an embed, so you can chuck it on your site.
Used to use meetup for a few years before going with Luma this year. Sure discoverability is a bit less if Meetup is the go-to in your area, but you can still get a core group of attendees in other ways and then grow the group from there.
Meetup was just acquired in January - no doubt their new owners are seeing how they can make their investment profitable.
Were you grandfathered in at a lower rate or something? I was paying $89.99 for 6 months back in 2018. Which was a completely ridiculous rate for a few meetups a year with a dozen or so people.
Cancelled meetup shortly thereafter and migrated the regulars to a Facebook group.
Then COVID basically killed the group anyway.
Ours just went from $98 to $178 2x a year! Almost double. I don’t know if my groups can do this. We don’t need most of the improvements
Hi.
I'd made a small app for events and such a long time ago.
Would anyone be interested to try it if I dusted off that project and re-launched it?
I would be happy to share it on Show HN in the next few days.
There is a newer meetup replacement called Heylo, which makes its money from you charging for your meetups. They get a percentage. It seems much more sustainable than Meetup. I'm going to start my next Meetup on it. I'm so done with Meetup.
I'm surprised your price started that low.
Back in 2019 they were charging me 89.94 USD per 6 months. In 2023 it went up to 108.99 USD.
I'm expecting to be charged 178.99 USD at the next 6 month renewal, from their web page, https://www.meetup.com/blog/new-organizer-pricing-key-improv...
From my point of view it's a big increase, but nowhere near triple.
I did a quick search. I think the price went up a while ago.
I would gladly pay a buck or two a month per group to attend. Have you asked your members?
There was a post here recently on replacements for meetup.com
Wow. I was going to start kicking an old gaming Meetup back to life, but looks like I'm going to invest my sanity elsewhere.
Likewise, I've only used Meetup for non-profits/community organizing, and frankly I can get most of the same features from a Wordpress/Jekyll website, a couple of plug-ins, and maybe Mastodon.
What’s an alternative to meetup? Facebook?
Is there not any alternative viable for this? With the same features and cheaper?
Meetup has been dying for a while. I have been part of few meetups and almost all of them died due to low participation. I doubt meetup is doing well as a company and this is probably their last shot at trying to stay afloat. I would jump ship.