What part of conferences or meetups is most important to you?

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I have been building out a competitor to Meetup.com for the past month called Flawk.to. Since I was going to compete directly with Meetup.com I created the roadmap for Flawk to reflect that. I started to feel like I had this massive up hill battle to re-create all of Meetup.com's features. The more I talked to people in the community the more I realized that my goals for Flawk were more directly aligned with the problems I was seeing in tech meetups.

I have decided to reposition Flawk.to to focus on tech meetups only! Our short term goals of getting Flawk into a beta have not changed, there is some crossover with Meetup.com functionality, but is does change our focus soon after. As I am reworking the copy/marketing for Flawk I wanted to go right to the source of one of the best developer communities and ask for your opinion.

What part of conferences or meetups is most important to you?

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If you have any other comments or suggestions about what you would like to see in a technology focused Meetup.com please comment below!

We are currently under development, you can follow along on Youtube, Twitch, and I will be sending out a weekly newsletter about the state of Flawk and my current growth/failures/struggle.

Comments

[Cristina Ruth]

As an organizer, I would like:

• More reliable count of attendees. Meetup UI encourages people to RSVP yes. I like Facebook events where you can specify your interest to “save” the event.
• Discoverability to new members is important.
• Customizable information that I can ask attendees and also a way to export/download them.
• Mailing list of “interested” event attendees, all “rsvp yes” attendees, all members and all members who have/have not interacted with any of our events for the past 3+ months.
• Markdown in event description!
• A more special way to thank sponsors without having to pay extra $$.
• A way to find a venue for my event. (vs me finding them on my own)

As an attendee:

• A way to put on my calendar an event I am interested in.
• A way to filter potential events around me by event type. i.e talks, workshops, panels, hands on, socials etc.

[Eric]

This so amazing! Thank you so much for taking the time to respond ♥️

[Mark Kop]

Lightning Talks (talks about anything - usually related to tech - with 5-10 minutes) are the best part of meetups and devconfs for me. I can learn a lot and even share some small learnings and tools

[Eric]

Awesome! Thanks for writing ♥️