Launched Meetups

It's become clear over the past 6 months or so that many hundreds of indie hackers have been meeting up in real life in cities across the world. I think this is great, and I've wanted to do something to help encourage more of these meetups, as well as promote them so more people will attend.

Today we launched a very simple MVP of our meetups feature. 🎉

I had elaborate plans for it at first, and all the myriad problems it could solve, but it would've taken months to build, so I pared it down to the most basic functionality possible: post a link to an event that you created elsewhere (Meetup.com, Facebook, Eventbrite, Google Calendar, etc.), and we'll show it in a list and send it out in our newsletter.

Excited to see where things go in the next few months, and hoping that the number of meetups really takes off. It'd be really great to see lots of small events in small cities, too, not just formal meetups in big cities.

—Courtland