Meeps

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Lots of folks are building communities and memberships for their Slack group, Discord chat, Substack newsletter, podcast, meetup groups, and associations. We bring together registration & payment, profiles, and more.

September 21, 2021 New feature: collaborative lists / portfolios!

Love the stuff @joshuaanderton is building for https://meeps.app early-access users

This new feature (collaborative lists / portfolios) solves a problem a lot of membership sites have.

For example, inside of MegaMaker, we've tried to maintain a public list of everybody's projects. Historically we've used Google Sheets, which aren't ideal.

This changes that.

https://youtu.be/Sg41VXS6_-4

September 16, 2021 Launched new features: Sponsorships!

We're so excited to announce TWO new Meeps features!

  1. Sponsorships
  2. "Apply to Join" mode for your online membership

Here is a little walkthrough from @joshuaanderton:

https://soapbox.wistia.com/videos/bqmPP3qsDl

💰Sponsorships
Now you can manage Sponsors out of the box with Meeps. Sponsors can subscribe to a Sponsorship Plan and log in to manage their personal and company profiles.

(Meeps members can manage their sponsorship plans under the Sponsorship Plans tab in the dashboard)

🗂"Apply to Join" mode
In addition to Open registration mode and Closed registration (invite-only) mode, we've added Apply to Join. This mode adds an Apply Now button to the navigation in your community site. Potential members will be required to submit an Application with some information about themselves. These applications show up in your dashboard for you to review and approve (or reject)!.

(Meeps members can turn this on by going to the Settings tab in the dashboard)

That's all for this update!

Please let us know if you have any questions at all about these new features. You can always reach out via the Meeps Discord (if you're a member) or by DMing us.

August 6, 2021 Got our first early access customers!

A quick reminder: Meeps enables you to run a paid membership site, host a membership directory, run a paid newsletter, or build an early-access community for your product (including doing pre-orders!)

I just recorded a video for you here:

https://youtu.be/LtkDqreXfmY

We've had a bunch of you contact us and say:

"Listened to your latest podcast episode with Josh yesterday. Please take my money for your early-access cohort!" 🙂

Today we're excited to announce: now you can pay for early access! 🎉

👉 Sign-up for early access here

(We've already had 10 people who managed to sneak in and pay!)

As an early-access customer, you'll:

✅ Be able to create your own Meeps account/membership site!
✅ Pay a discounted rate (50% off our official base price)
✅ Collaborate with us to make Meeps more awesome
✅ Be included in Meeps' public member directory

If you're curious how we're running our early-access using Meeps, check out the meeps.app homepage.

https://meeps.app/newsletter/latnjh

June 11, 2021 Initial app preview

Joshua Anderton and I wanted to give you an exclusive peek at what he's been building.

The goal, is to replace these tools in MegaMaker's current "membership stack" with this new thing:

  • The WordPress site (currently used as the homepage here)
  • Memberful (use for registration, billing)
  • MailChimp (used for this member newsletter)
  • Membership profiles/directory (we've had a miss-mash of this over the years: WP sites, WP plugins, Google Sheets)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLF4Tcv4LOs

February 23, 2015 Came up with the idea

I've had this idea forever; I can't remember when I first came up with it.

The initial spark was: there are tons of Slack groups, Discord chats, and forums... and they all have terrible member directories and profiles.

My favorite member directory was this one I joined in 2012: http://okdg.org/members/byName/342/Justin.Jackson

It allowed you to search for dev members by tag, you could list all of your social links, website links, and a brief bio.

A lot of Meeps was inspired by this community:

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Lots of folks are building communities and memberships for their Slack group, Discord chat, Substack newsletter, podcast, meetup groups, and associations. We bring together registration & payment, profiles, and more.