JustJoin vs Meetup,
after the price hike.

Or keep Meetup for discovery — and run JustJoin alongside it

This is the answer most Meetup hosts actually want, so we'll say it out loud: you don't have to choose. Meetup is a shopfront. JustJoin is the booking desk. If strangers finding your group is the thing you're paying Meetup for, keep paying for that — and stop making everyone who already found you climb the signup wall a second time.

1. 1Keep your Meetup group exactly as it is. Same name, same description, same discovery.
2. 2Create your JustJoin club and add the same recurring sessions. Free sessions cost nothing, so nothing is at risk while you try it.
3. 3In each Meetup event, put your JustJoin session link as the RSVP step — and put the club link in your Meetup description, your bio and your group chat.
4. 4Run both for a month and watch where the RSVPs come from. Meetup keeps bringing new faces; JustJoin handles headcount, waitlist, reminders and payment for everyone.
5. 5After a month you'll know what Meetup is actually worth to you. Keep it, downgrade it, or drop it — with numbers instead of a guess.

One honest caveat: Meetup does not hand you your members' email addresses, so there is no export to move. That's exactly why running both is the low-risk path — nobody has to be migrated, they just meet a better RSVP step the next time they show up.