Meetup
More info
- Creator
- Scott Heiferman, Matt Meeker, Peter Kamali
- Released
- Owner
- Bending Spoons (since 2024)
- Type
- Event organisation / community groups
- Website
- meetup.com
- Wikipedia
- en.wikipedia.org
Platform for in-person gatherings around interests — programming meetups, hiking clubs, book clubs. Pre-pandemic glory days.
Started after 9/11 as a way to build local community. Acquired by WeWork in 2017, sold on after the WeWork implosion. Bending Spoons (an Italian app conglomerate) took over in 2024 and raised prices sharply, sending many organisers fleeing to Bevy or Lu.ma. Solid organiser tooling in the 2010s, has stagnated since.