Radius
A Meetup.com Alternative
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Hello HN!I'm relaunching Radius [1] - far too long after the original Show HN [2] (I'll blame the day job for that).Radius started out from my frustration with not knowing what was going on around me. The initial plan was to "show all and every type of event" from big to small, but over time I narrowed the focus to communities, groups, events, and helping people connect through them.The initial Show HN gave me 150+ comments (surprising, looking back, given how terrible the plain Bootstrap UI was...) with a huge amount of useful feedback and feature requests. I've spent the time since then working through that, along with additional requests from groups using Radius, and it finally feels ready for a proper relaunch.I've also recently added "Activities" [3] - which are lightweight events, independent of groups, intended to help people find others to do things with - for example:> John is going for a cycle and a coffee in New York at 10amPeople can join and vote for a time that works for them.I've got a bunch of ideas for where to go next with this, including things like open sourcing and federation, but those are for another day!Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!P.S. it's built with Ruby on Rails, for those interested. I highly suspect it would have taken me 2 more years to get to this point without Rails![1] https://radius.to/[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40717398[3] https://radius.to/documentation/activities/post-an-activity
HN · launched Sep 20, 2026 · 168 upvotes (top 5%) · 0 views
Niche: social discovery and meetup apps · 159 launches, 13 in the last 7 days ▼ -41% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Communication
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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More like this: all 159 launches in social discovery and meetup apps →
Could you build this?
Yes It is a standard CRUD social meetup platform with events, groups, and activity feeds built on typical web frameworks.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Meetup, Luma, Partiful, Posh, Partey.io
Concerns raised: Cold start / dead platform problem, Confusing UX and lack of focus, Inaccurate automatic geolocation tagging, Lack of a radius limit filter for local groups, Landing page prioritizes SaaS marketing over core functionality
Feature requests: Radius filter to limit groups by distance, Card-based UI to view nearby events before sign-in, Ability to draft events or groups without immediate login wall, Fix Firefox/MacOS search suggestions bug after clearing query
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 122 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #5 of 123 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 322 days after the earliest competitor.
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