are we finally going to kill meetup.com?
Pura Vida!
I'm off to Riga and will be away for over a week so decided to finally put my Nostr Meetup app online.
It's very a much a work in progress, probably buggy as hell, and I'm also a bit of a typescript noob and never used sveltekit before so it's beena lot of learning as I go.
It is also still not in line with NIP-52 (calendar events) I'm afraid, I'd built the bulk of this before I realised that was a thing and at the moment I'm using some custom event kinds that aren't part of any NIP.
Feel free to have a play around with it here:
At time of writing you need to select Brighton UK as the location to see any content at all as the only communities and events have been added by myself at that location. You are of course welcome to create content for other places.
To create content, comment, join communities or mark yourself as attending an event, you need to use a signer extension like Nos2x or Alby.
https://github.com/BrightonBTC/inmytown.social
Discussion
That'd be amazing but I'm definitely not holding my breath for anything like that to happen soon, they benefit from massive network effects.
Maybe as the nostr ecosystem grows as a whole we can start to replace the old centralised/corporate entities, like Meetup, that have monopolised the interwebs, though. Let's make it happen!