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by radius89 1mo ago
Working on https://radius.to/ - a Meetup.com alternative of sorts - with fairer organiser pricing for smaller groups. I posted a Show HN [1] here a while back, got tons of great feedback, and have been slowly improving it s
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by radius89 3mo ago
Still working on https://radius.to/ - a Meetup.com alternative of sorts - with fairer organiser pricing for smaller groups. I posted a Show HN [1] here a while back, got tons of great feedback, and have been slowly improvin
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by radius89 7mo ago
Hey! Wow, I knew about OpenTechCalendar but somehow hadn't realised (or likely forgot) how close to home it was! I'll definitely reach out for a chat at some point. And thanks for the tips - I completely agree on the point about
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by radius89 7mo ago
I guess the weekend was a bad time to upgrade to Rails 8.1 :) - should be fixed now, was just an issue with Redis. Thanks for letting me know!
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by radius89 7mo ago
https://radius.to/ - a Meetup.com alternative of sorts - with fairer organiser pricing for smaller groups. I posted a Show HN [1] here a while back, got tons of great feedback, and have been slowly improving it since, with
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by radius89 10mo ago
I'm building a Meetup.com alternative, of sorts - https://www.radius.to/ It's intended to be a sort of social network focused on IRL groups/communities and finding others with the same interests in the same a
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by radius89 1y ago
It's easier said than done, I suppose, but my first ~500 users for https://radius.to/ were from HN after hitting the front page. A year later, I still get a decent amount of traffic from that post. I'd imagine yo
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by radius89 2y ago
> The other thing I'd say is that "event" could have a broader meaning than the meetup/facebook definition. Sale at a local shop? Someone's giving away a piano? Yoga on the beach every Tuesday? I'd be happy
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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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