I really like what you've done here, and have actually just found several groups/meetups I'd like to check out.
I agree with jqueryin on most of his/her points, especially point 6. Opening up with: "Here's a couple groups right nearby!" would be great!
I'd love the ability to search or filter on keywords. My area pulled up about 200 tech groups (I assume SF/NYC would be worse) and it would be great to be able to narrow that down using keywords/tags or even a search. Most of the group names have keywords in them: Java, Ruby, Marketing, Entrepreneur, etc... so you should be able to build a list of keywords with group counts next to them with checkboxes or something, so I can uncheck Ruby/Rails and check Java or whatever my interests are.
I really like this site, but I think promoting it might be tough, since I keep ending up on Meetup.com, so sharing your site around is odd for me.
Filtering within categories has been on my todo list. I'll reprioritize.
Right now there are over 500 non-meetup.com groups on the site (and if that seems low, keep in mind that curation is a key value proposition I'm providing). That said, I have several hundred more staged that I need to do a little more cleaning up on before I push to the production site.
Also, if you missed it, check out the RSS and Twitter feeds. Seeing all of the upcoming events in one place, without having to join all of the groups (and be subject to inbox deluge) is pretty nifty.
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I really like what you've done here, and have actually just found several groups/meetups I'd like to check out.
I agree with jqueryin on most of his/her points, especially point 6. Opening up with: "Here's a couple groups right nearby!" would be great!
I'd love the ability to search or filter on keywords. My area pulled up about 200 tech groups (I assume SF/NYC would be worse) and it would be great to be able to narrow that down using keywords/tags or even a search. Most of the group names have keywords in them: Java, Ruby, Marketing, Entrepreneur, etc... so you should be able to build a list of keywords with group counts next to them with checkboxes or something, so I can uncheck Ruby/Rails and check Java or whatever my interests are.
I really like this site, but I think promoting it might be tough, since I keep ending up on Meetup.com, so sharing your site around is odd for me.
Filtering within categories has been on my todo list. I'll reprioritize.
Right now there are over 500 non-meetup.com groups on the site (and if that seems low, keep in mind that curation is a key value proposition I'm providing). That said, I have several hundred more staged that I need to do a little more cleaning up on before I push to the production site.
Also, if you missed it, check out the RSS and Twitter feeds. Seeing all of the upcoming events in one place, without having to join all of the groups (and be subject to inbox deluge) is pretty nifty.
Thanks for the feedback... and the morale boost.