Who Killed Meetup? Three Owners, Zero UX
A platform born from 9/11 grief to fight American loneliness — sold to WeWork, fire-sold during COVID, and now strip-mined by Bending Spoons. Meetup.com is one of the most heartbreaking UX murders we've ever investigated. In this episode, Brian Crowley and Eve Eden follow the evidence through three ownership changes in seven years, a broken RSVP system that's been ignored for over a decade, dark-pattern subscriptions that users can't cancel, and a search bar so busted it returns yoga in New York when you're looking for tech in Cologne. We investigate: • How WeWork bought Meetup for $156M and…
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