[olegp]

We (http://toughbyte.com) organize a number of technical meetups ourselves and have found Meetup.com lacking. To scratch our own itch, we built Meetabit (https://meetabit.com/) which includes some additional features such as the ability to accept talk proposals and sponsorship offers, have speaker profiles, archive of talks and related materials, export data etc.

It does what we need and we haven't been actively developing or promoting it recently. Nevertheless, it has grown organically to 4K+ users. Now that Meetup has been acquired, I think there may be an opportunity to develop it further and actually start monetizing.

Is there anyone here that would be interested in helping out with that? Which direction should we take it in? Ideas and feedback, especially from fellow meetup organizers or sponsors, would be greatly appreciated!

[SointuKoo]

Good job, congrats! I'm interested to hel out for sure. Would need some time to go thru the features though. First few quick comments:

I've loved using Eventbrite and it has some really nice additional features that you could benchmark (event picture, paid ticket/ donation option for scaling the business and getting some money in, showing remaining tickets for public if wanted, automatic (scheduled) email announcements for community subsribers (before event, launchign event, after event, etc.).

Also streamlining the sponsorship process would be helpful. Often times sponsors don't remember to accept the offers etc. and we are forced to send emails back and forth.

Connecting to SoMe accounts/ Slack and sharing event info from the platform.

Last but not least, making it possible for same sponsor to be added in multiple cities.

We've realized that companies in Tampere are willing to pay a bit extra if we just ask them for some organizing fee. To include that into the sponsorship process would be really nice. Would require more specs for sure.

Thanks! Sointu

[d2s]

Potential improvements: — Ability to find items from the event directory with a search field.

— Ability to filter items (groups / events / etc.) based on a type. For example, “show only groups with recent events” as a way to put the relevant content to the top of the list.

— Stop using “jumbotron” CSS element in the top, because it wastes a lot of room from the actual content of the service.

— Redesign (maybe with a card layout?) to modernise the visual layout. Tachyons http://tachyons.io/ has some building blocks to start with… (even if you decide to keep the old Bootstrap -based structure in the beginning of a rewrite).

Have more ideas and know ways to make things better, if needed.