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Thanks for that feedback! We are still pretty early on discovery so we don't support cities other than the cities listed there for public discovery.

We do have many events happening in Seattle tho so we should add discovery there in the next couple months .

Context / Plug: I'm a founder of a Meetup competitor / successor called lu.ma

I think Meetup got in a hard position because they didn't have very many paid events and their communities tended to churn off of Meetup. It's hard to make money as a community organizing tool so they tried a bunch of different ways of making money, including charging guests + showing irrelevant ads which both don't work.

Also, Meetup was in a very weird spot before the pandemic. They were bought by WeWork and then sold off in the WeWork crunch. I doubt any of the original team is still there.

Anyway, lu.ma is free to use for free events so if there's anything I can reach out with, feel free to ping me at [email protected]

Hi! I'm a founder of lu.ma which a lot of Meetup hosts have migrated to in the past year. We're kind of a mix between Meetup + Eventbrite. You can see some tech events we've featured here — lu.ma/explore

I'd love to see if I can help you get your community up and running again. Feel free to reach out - [email protected]

In terms of funding / sponsorships, I think it's certainly harder than the market a few years ago since there is just less free money for tech / startups, but we've seen a lot of new tech communities thrive. Also, a lot of people are willing to pay to attend events!

Luma | lu.ma | REMOTE | Full-time | Software engineer, designer

We're hiring software engineers who want to build a delightful events and community platform. We've had over 5M guests register for events in the last year :)

Tech Stack: React, Typescript, Node, Postgres

We're also building a crypto community layer with Solana.

Email [email protected] — I'm a co-founder :)

Hi HN! I started working on ZmURL during quarantine since I was tired of sending around ugly Zoom links that don't provide any context.

Curious to hear what you think :)

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Funny story: my co-founder Dan and I actually met on Zoom a year ago and we've only met in person once.

A year ago, I was raising money. I met with an investor who liked me but didn't like my startup... He said I should chat with Dan and work with him.

Dan was living in Beijing so we set up a Zoom call and hung out for an hour. I liked him but we decided not to work together.

We stayed in touch and COVID derailed our other plans. So we started ZmURL.