Comment by langsoul-com

Meetup and social media in general are difficult to compete with due to their moat.

Yes, the features of meetup aren't crazy to implement, a way to create, list and see events. But will people use a different site when meetup is good enough.

Even then, meetup itself is only good for large cities. So they haven't solved the discoverability problem.

Facebook groups, and others do exist, but generally are a very poor experience for public events. Cannot deny they have users though and that's what matters the most.

If I post a tech event and no techie will see the event then what's the point? Getting a critical mass of users is not easy, perhaps start with a specific region or group. Japan has doorkeeper for japanese tech events, very popular and since its limited to the tech crowd (for now) it's a good host - > attendees cycle.

One thing would be nice is to hide events or types of events. If I'm not interested in night club events, why is it always showing. Or if there's a bad event Ive attended, thus don't want to see any more, I want to hide it from view.