Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Meetup
The 20 closest event discovery and community groups alternatives to Meetup, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 11 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Meetup? The closest matches are Eventbrite, Tinder and Facebook. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
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01 · Entity
About Meetup
Meetup meetup.com
Meetup | Find Local Groups, Events, and Activities Near You
Find Meetup events, join groups, or start your own. Make new friends and connect with like-minded people. Meet people near you who share your interests.
Wikidata: social network
Summary by Claude
Meetup is a service for finding and joining local interest-based groups and events, both in-person and online, and for organizers to create and run their own groups.
- Who it’s for
- People seeking local social, hobby and professional events; group organizers
- Business model
- Organizer subscriptions and paid member tiers
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Meetup’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Meetup
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Meetup, thumbs down if it isn’t.
Startups challenging Meetup
All challengersYounger companies going after Meetup, often too small to rank among its nearest neighbours yet.
Event pages that look good with no design work.
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Eventbrite - Discover the Best Local Events & Things to Do
Eventbrite - Discover the Best Local Events & Things to Do
Very close cos 0.905 - 02
Tinder | Dating, Make Friends & Meet New People
With 55 billion matches to date, Tinder® is the world’s most popular dating app, making it the place to meet new people.
Very close cos 0.898 - 03
American online social media and social networking service
Close cos 0.894 - 04
LinkedIn: Log In or Sign Up
1 billion members | Manage your professional identity. Build and engage with your professional network. Access knowledge, insights and opportunities.
Close cos 0.892 - 05
product discovery website
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Grindr: The World’s Largest Social Networking App for LGBTQ People.
Grindr is the world’s largest social networking app for gay, bi, trans, and queer people. Download Grindr today to discover, connect to, and explore the queer world around you.
Close cos 0.887 - 07
9GAG - Best Funny Memes and Breaking News
Your daily dose of funny memes, GIFs, videos and weird news stories. We deliver hundreds of new memes daily and much more humor anywhere you go.
Close cos 0.888 - 08
Luma
Discover and host memorable events effortlessly with Luma. Invite friends, sell tickets, and find great events happening near you.
Close cos 0.884 - 09
photo sharing website
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dating website
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American social news aggregation website and discussion portal
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Bumble | Date, Chat & Meet New People
Bumble is a social network that allows you to feel empowered while making connections, whether you're dating or looking for friends.
Close cos 0.883 - 13
Meeting Scheduling Software and AI Meeting Tools | Calendly
Calendly connects and simplifies all of the work around meetings, from scheduling, payments, and meeting prep to notetaking, contact management, and follow-up.
Close cos 0.881 - 14
online platform for people and organizations to create custom social networks
Close cos 0.880 - 15
smartphone dating/hookup application
Close cos 0.882 - 16
DeviantArt - The Largest Online Art Gallery and Community
DeviantArt is where art and community thrive. Explore over 650 million pieces of art while connecting to fellow artists and art enthusiasts.
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Featured Content on Myspace
Featured Content on Myspace
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BetterHelp | Professional Therapy With A Licensed Therapist
Get matched easily with a licensed, board-accredited therapist. More than 31000 therapists with 492 million+ counseling sessions are ready to help you!
Close cos 0.879 - 19
Hire Freelancers & Find Freelance Jobs Online | Freelancer
Access the world's largest cloud workforce. 25.9+ million jobs completed across 3400+ skills. Post your job free, compare quotes, and hire top talent today.
Close cos 0.882 - 20
Hot Questions - Stack Exchange
Stack Overflow – 180+ community-powered knowledge sites.
Close cos 0.881
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to meetup.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Meetup uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Meetup is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- JavaScript frameworks
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:mail.zendesk.com include:_spf.google.com include:_spf.…
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX smtp.google.com
- Email delivery
- SparkPost TXT v=spf1 include:mail.zendesk.com include:_spf.google.com include:_spf.…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-919.awsdns-50.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- DocuSign TXT docusign=0a856615-3cca-4967-af2e-aa849ca42de2
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=hnJMGmZ5nxkDzoVy5--BmuTT2DIF9hm5OQ87d…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=JU1AoGj_pC_wB0Jxu62NnaIktGqrX8wTvBo9i8XRwHw
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=rgyjx6tabxhbz0vs8jznk3h7kw9igq
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Meetup adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Google Workspace 14/20
- Meta Business Suite 11/20
- Amazon Route 53 10/20
- Atlassian · not on meetup.com 9/20
- Cloudflare · not on meetup.com 9/20
- Apple Business · not on meetup.com 8/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on meetup.com 7/20
- DocuSign 7/20
- OpenAI · not on meetup.com 7/20
- Zendesk 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on meetup.com 6/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on meetup.com 6/20
- GlobalSign 4/20
- Amazon SES · not on meetup.com 4/20
- OneTrust · not on meetup.com 4/20