Recording: The Latest News from Meetup Engineering

By Mary Garcia

The Meetup engineering team shares the latest news on our platform in this Meetup Live community update. Watch Rajib Ahmed, CTO, Annyce Davis, Senior Director of Engineering, and Jameson Edwards, Senior Engineering Manager for an update of our platform, a discussion on how we are scaling at Meetup, and a look at what’s to come for the mobile apps!

Main Takeaways:

• Earlier this year, we started this journey with our new web platform, what we call Build Meetup Web. Currently, we’re working on our APIs and business logic. Later this year and into 2022, we plan to tackle our data layer and further down the road, we plan to expand into additional regions as we grow overseas. 
• What’s new in the apps:
  • Massive re-platform of event home on iOS and Android
  • Improved group search 
  • New category filter on event search 
• Join the Meetup family – Check out our open roles on our careers page here.

Top Q&A Questions:

• How is accessibility worked into your plans?
  • Rajib: It’s always part of our plans.
    From the moment our design team is creating new designs or creating new product we know that accessibility is super important. We have special tools we use and worked with some partners to evaluate how we can improve things and get it to a point where we know we’re checking all the boxes for accessibility. We look at at everything we build in our newer platforms to meet our requirements, but tougher on the older things. 
• Can you share any new features or tools coming for organizers?
  • Annyce: Organizer app is under development. Some of the new features we plan on releasing (first in beta):
    • Exposing your event drafts in the organizer app
    • Allowing a more streamlined process to create new events
  • Jameson: On the web side:
    • Have a general strategy of modernizing our more legacy web application.
    • Providing suggestions for folks scheduling events 
  • Rajib: Other things
    • Analytical insights 
    • Revamp dashboards
    • Improving calendars and event creation 
    • Improving communication tools 
• Is the organizer app available already?
  • Annyce: No, not yet. It’s in active development. You can expect to see the beta around the end of October.

Meetup Team

Last modified on August 30, 2021