Frequency vs Eventbrite

Eventbrite is built to sell tickets to a real event. The listing, the payments, the door: all handled, and for a big paid one-off, it is the standard. Frequency is built for the small, free, repeating room, not the ticketed one-off. Here is the sharpest line between them, and it is about money: Eventbrite charges a fee on every ticket you sell, while Frequency takes 0% on your own bookings, always. Charging for a gathering is open on a free account, from day one, and what your work earns is yours. Frequency earns only a small, shrinking slice of the business the network brings you, never a cut of the business you bring yourself.

You have been to plenty of events. You want the few that turn into people you keep seeing, not another ticket stub.

Where to start

You can keep using Eventbrite for what it does well. If you want the part it does not do, the small group that keeps meeting, look at the Circles already gathering near you, then join one or start your own. And when you host, selling is open on a free account, with 0% on your own bookings. That is the whole deal.