Work · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Radius – A Meetup.com alternative
Hey everyone! I'm introducing Radius - a project I've been working on for too long! It's an early stage and pretty minimal (which, according to YC means I launched early enough) alternative to Meetup.com, built using Ruby on Rails. It's a platform for creating thriving communities and discovering events around you. What can you do on Radius? - Want to create a group, post events and gather RSVPs? You're covered! - Want event discovery? Coming soon™! I'm a software engineer based in the UK. My first attempt to make this failed spectacularly when I hired a budget dev years ago to "build an…
Radius is a Ruby on Rails platform for creating and discovering local events and communities, built as an alternative to Meetup.com. Users can create groups, post events, and collect RSVPs. The platform is in early… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 3 we have checked on their own sites, 3 of them free or with a free tier. Radius – A Meetup.com alternative launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Mobile first open-source RSVP platform. Alternative for meetup.com / eventribe for small companies and groups. If you have a small group and don't want to pay for services you can easily selfhost this solution. Open for improvements and for feedback, ofc. - One-Click Sharing - Each event gets a unique, memorable URL. Share instantly via any platform or messaging app. - No Hassle, No Sign-Ups - Skip registrations and endless forms. Unlike other event platforms, you create and share instantly — no accounts, no barriers. - Effortless Simplicity - Designed to be instantly clear and easy. No…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2023 · flingup.com · its alternatives →
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Meetup for iOS and Androidfree tier▲343Discover groups that are all about the things you love
2016 · meetup.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! https://flat.social is a web video meeting app for organising fun online meetings & social events. Each participant can move around and talk with others in their proximity. Here is a quick demo if you wanna see it in action: https://youtu.be/Y2yH3twjrx4 I’ve been on it solo for around a year right now. Tech used is Next.js, Typescript, PIXI.js on the front-end and Node, Mediasoup, Socket.io and Matter.js (physics engine) on the backend. Feel free to jump in into the demo room (https://flat.social/f/Flat.Social-Demo) to say hi, I’ll be…
2022 · flat.social · its alternatives →
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Bunches▲89Start and discover free or paid group chats about anything
2021 · bunches.chat · its alternatives →
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Herd Social▲92Ditch the highlight reel, find real friends instead
2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Hey there, First time posting on Hacker News in about 2 years! The reason I’m posting is that I thought I’d write about the product I’ve been building, in hopes it resonates with people. Why build yet another social app? Because I deleted almost all social media around 3/4 years ago as it was just net negative on my life. There was very little that was truly interesting, I didn’t care about looking good to other people and because of the ‘media’ and ads, the apps were all designed to make me spend too much time for what I was getting. I hated it and what it meant for people’s behaviour,…
2022 · oncircles.com · its alternatives →
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MeetingPlace.iofree▲9Alternative to Meetup - Create and Join Groups
2020 · hoki178pagpag.com · its alternatives →
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Odd Circles▲98Start, grow and manage your community and events
2023 · oddcircles.com · its alternatives →
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Discover the best digital experiences, curated just for you
2025 · discover.circle.so · its alternatives →
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Forward▲104Events with friends simpler than ever, quality time together
2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · cole-maclean.github.io · its alternatives →
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Gatheredfree▲91Make and share connections at events and meetups
2017 · acekyd.github.io · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I’m Phil, one of the co-founders building emdash. Previously, I was an early engineer at Facebook and led Customer Products at Square. We’ve focused on making chat and video work together so distributed teams can stay aligned without drowning in information. You can try it here: https://emdash.io. It frustrated us how easily important conversations would happen and then disappear. Slack never quite matched how we worked. Channels were too coarse which led to noisy notifications and broken search. Zoom meetings weren’t much better–unless someone took perfect notes (which…
2025 · emdash.io · its alternatives →
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All-in-One solution for easy video meetings wherever you are
2017 · its alternatives →
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