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There's no known truly superior alternative to Facebook Groups (and the original article is, obviously, not what it once was, anymore, either).

A lot of possible alternatives appear to come close, but none really satisfies it.

The area is very ripe for disruption.





Is it though? Facebook and nextdoor are free. That's incredibly hard to compete with.

I'd be interested in building something like this, but even at $100/year, you really can't even afford to advertise for it, so I can't see how one builds distribution.

It sucks that for cash strapped community groups / rescue orgs / etc everyone defaults to facebook, but disrupting that requires a way to make money that isn't advertising, and I can't figure it out :shrug:




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