I've used Meetup in two cities now (Seattle and SF) and I don't consider it a great platform for meeting friends. It's a great platform for people with common interests to go out and do X, but I find its convertibility into actual friendships is really low.
The organizer-driven flow also means that if the group organizer slacks, the whole community goes kaput. It's rare to find a group with a dedicated enough organizer pool to keep things going week after week.
Wait, he has a startup that is basing product features on analytics on user data? How is he getting a statistically significant sample size for something that appears to be pre-launch?
I've never had enough traffic during a private beta to hit a 95% confidence level. That's pretty amazing! I can't even imagine finding tens of thousands of people that would log in every day in order to hit it.
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[ 2.1 ms ] story [ 25.2 ms ] threadThere are tons of digital products to help meet new friends. Did he not even check Meetup? This just seems naive.
The organizer-driven flow also means that if the group organizer slacks, the whole community goes kaput. It's rare to find a group with a dedicated enough organizer pool to keep things going week after week.
It's ripe for disruption really.