How To Discover Trending High-Growth Communities – Meetup Trends Tracking
Introduction
To better understand and discover exciting new trends, I built this site about 9 months ago. I’ve been collecting the membership counts for all Meetups in New York, San Francisco, London and Berlin since then and now, with enough data-points, I’m excited to see patterns that otherwise I could not have seen.
What I’m looking for
What I’m looking for in particular are Meetups that have had a consistent growth curve over the last 3 months.
What I’m concerned about is really the shape of the growth-curve, less the current size of the Meetup.
All of this is to keep an eye on small, emerging communities that could be interesting to me and that, given their growth-curves, promise to prosper and grow – hence worth my investment of time and energy.
Examples
To give you an example, here’s today’s New York fastest-growing, top-10 Meetups:
The top Meetup “Girls Night Out Social Events For Women Only” not only had the highest growth-rate (28,800%) but, more importantly, the membership is growing nice and steady since they started out 3 months ago. This tells me that there is a steady, growing demand for ladies to meet up, go out and keep among themselves.
Here are a few more New York-based Meetups that have exceptional growth curves:
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Let’s look at a counter-example of what wouldn’t peek my interest based on their member growth-curve.
The “Lucid Dreaming & Astral Projection” Meetup, while also with a high growth-rate of 8,500%, has a bumpier, slower growth curve. I’m not concerned about the absolute numbers by the way, I don’t care if they’re 10 or 50 members. But I can tell from looking at the curve that it’s not a super-hot topic per se. (Although, personally I find it an interesting topic.)
In summary…
If anything, I find it so interesting and inspiring to see what new topics are coming up and which ones are succeeding and how they’re succeeding in growing.
If you want to see for yourself, feel free to check it out:
Click on this link http://meetup-growth.herokuapp.com/ or click on the image below:
