Become an organizer
Build your community in Basel
Start a group on your terms in Basel — you choose the region, the language, and who it is for. No ads, no data selling, no paying to reach the people you bring together.
Basel is waiting just for you
Basel sits where three countries meet, and it grows almost entirely by people moving in — close to 14,000 newcomers in 2024, two in three of them from abroad. Every year a small town's worth of people arrive here looking for a place to belong.
Most never find the group that would have made Basel feel like home — the run club along the Rhine, the newcomers' Stammtisch in Kleinbasel, the niche that still has nowhere to meet. That's the opening: the people are already here, waiting for someone to bring them together.
You build it. At your terms.
The group page your members call home — gatherings, a feed, and the tools to run it. All yours to shape.
You own it. Because you earned it.
The community you gather is yours — not a listing on someone else's marketplace.
Free forever
Run your community and reach every member of it without paying a cent. Hosting, inviting, member engagement — all free, for good. You only ever pay if you choose to grow beyond the basics.
Full control
Define exactly who your group is for — by topic, region, and language — and keep it true to its purpose. No algorithm deciding who it reaches.
Trust built in
Ask members to verify, or go fully private and hidden, invite-only. You set how safe your space needs to be.
No lock-in
Export your group's data any time. And whether your members come with you is their choice, never ours — we don't hold communities hostage.
Ready to build a place that is actually yours?
You bring the people and the energy — we'll give them a home. Free forever, no ads, no lock-in.
Start your groupOrganizer questions
- Is it free to start?
- Yes — starting and running a community on gæther is free, forever. The free tier is the real product, not a trial, and there's no fee to reach the members you gathered.
- How do you make money?
- Never from your members' data, and never with ads or tracking pixels. gæther is free to start and run a community; we'll fund it with optional paid upgrades for organizers who want more — the community itself stays free.
- Can I move my Meetup group over?
- Yes — our migration tools help you recreate your group, bring your members across, and go live. See the moving-from-Meetup guide for the step-by-step.
- How is this different from Meetup?
- No ads, no pay-to-reach, and no algorithm deciding who sees your group. You own your members and their contact details, you set how the space runs, and you can export everything and leave any time. gæther is European, privacy-first, and built for the community — not the marketplace.
- Do members have to verify or identify themselves?
- No. No one is ever required to verify or reveal who they are — members take part under the name they choose. Verification is an optional, private check that someone is a real person; you can choose to require it for your group, but it never means revealing an identity.