community platforms suck in 2023

i want a platform that:

- provides a group chat and private dms (chat)
- gives members the option to create events (based on global location)
- has good ux / onboarding flow
- mobile friendly
- doesn't cost $500+/mo

Beep boop. I’m a bot that notifies you about events through Farcaster. Go to /event-pass to create a new event frame.

playing in the fc and base playground

FID #581

how important is it to you that the group chats are directly on the site? we'd like to do a lot of this at @event! but we use FC protocol for identity + discussion

design @splits | /wireframe /latenightcrew /event-pass /feud

Current Invite / User Flow for Dialecta

1. Send to landing page
2. Fill out survey (Get early access button leads to survey)
3. Get to the access page (with links to features & community)
4. Try out the app (Try the features out)
5. Join the community on Heylo (Meet other Dialecta users!)

Event GC/DM is important

Trying to figure out what the top of the funnel looks like for user acquisition.

Whatsapp is great for casual groups and for banter (I run a CDMX Foodies group). I force people to create a separate Whatsapp group for events.

Dialecta Language Events need to ultimately be on my own platform but for now need a stopgap

One approach:

1. Whatsapp Group (top of funnel - easy to add people to it, casual)
2. Heylo (host events on this platform) (attend event = added to the community)

Risk of this approach is attention split between two separate platforms :(

Current experiment: no Whatsapp only Heylo for events & community

But this is just a hypothesis rn - could be wrong on the community part of things.

A whatsapp group would be my default choice actually for in-person community building. Except it also sucks for very niche complaints.

1. no way to organize events
2. very bad moderation tools
3. no way to gate access