What is Meetup.com?

Meetup.com FAQ

What is Meetup.com?
It's how people Find The Others and organize a Meetup.

What's a Meetup?
A local interest group that's organized online and meets regularly offline.

Why do people Meetup?
For community. Sometimes for people-power.

What do people Meetup about?
Most anything. Today's top Meetups are Mom Meetups.

What do people do at Meetup.com?
They sign up for a Meetup or free alerts of others that want a Meetup. Then, as more people sign up, someone organizes a Meetup and uses Meetup.com to easily grow and manage it.

How much does it cost?
Alerts are free. Organizing a Meetup costs the Organizer $19/month. Some Organizers share the fee with others, so it’s maybe a buck a month per person.

Why use Meetup.com to organize a Meetup?
Because more people will find your Meetup. And to join forces with similar Meetups elsewhere.

Why will more people find my Meetup on Meetup.com?
Because Meetup.com is where people are signing up for free Meetup alerts.

Why use Meetup.com after our Meetup has come together?
Because your Meetup can be a great local resource for a long time and more people will find it on Meetup.com.

Should I use Evite, YahooGroups, Craigslist, or Meetup.com?
Use Evite for a birthday party.
Use YahooGroups for an online mailing list.
Use Craigslist to post an ad that stays up for a day or 2.
Use Meetup.com for Meetups -- to have a great, long-lasting, local offline interest group that keeps growing.

What's the goal?
Make the world friendlier and more people-powered, using revenue to help people Meetup. Imagine everyone having access to a Meetup about most anything everywhere.

Why would 100 million people care about going to Meetups?
Because most of us, at some points in our lives, want to Find The Others, feel more community, and maybe unite for power.