[TheCapeGreek]

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.

[solardev]

Sadly only supports major cities :( https://lu.ma/discover

[TheCapeGreek]

For discovery maybe, but I doubt many people are using it for that as a Meetup alternative yet.

I run an event in Cape Town for what it's worth.