Meetup triples subscription price with less than a months notice 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. |
We paid quite a bit more than $50/year for fewer members than OP, too. Their new price is still less than we were paying for a couple of our groups.
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.
I run an event in Cape Town for what it's worth.
Cancelled meetup shortly thereafter and migrated the regulars to a Facebook group.
Then COVID basically killed the group anyway.
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.
Reminds me of the eBay & Craigslist situations where there's a strong network effect, and they're not easy to displace despite the poor UX and such. It takes someone with an already-big network (like Facebook Marketplace) to stand a real chance. It's going to be hard to dethrone Meetup.com :(
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 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
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.