For years I have been acquiring every online event deal I can get my hands on here on AppSumo.

Most of them are able to handle just small events.
And by small I don't mean in number of attendees. I specialize in events with lots of speakers, many parallel sessions and the like. So, most events platforms don't deal well with that.

Some of those platforms were really useful, and I run large events in them, maximizing the AppSumo deal.

Very few of those platforms were amazing, and I even moved to larger accounts and corporate support contracts.

I think HeySummit can very well fall in this later category.

In terms of events, it has a lot going on to run events for your community, so, comparing all the other options I've seen here in AppSumo (and also not on AppSumo), HeySummit looks awesome.

So, IMHO, if you want to run online events, buy it.

Here are the downsides, IMHO:

- lack of streaming studio. You will need to use something else to stream. And your event will be limited by the limits of whatever you use to stream. For exemple, you may need multiple Zoom accounts. I have a pro Restream account, and will see if that can be used to stream to more than one room at the same time... Maybe... So, make sure you have a streaming solution to run live events.
(I've seen some announcement of a future streaming, yet, that is not included in the lifetime deal)

- the LTD does not have sponsor booths. This may limit your ability to run community events on the LTD, since it is hard to do community events without sponsors. Maybe this can be replaced by offering your sponsor a parallel room.

(To be fair, there was a promise to offer a next level for a small monthly fee, so, if you have sponsors, that could easily pay for that extra cost).

So, my general overview is:

- this is a great deal, better than most other online event offers I've seen here in AppSumo during the last 5-6 years
- if you do live events (the majority of my events are live), you will need to figure out the streaming. My thinking right now is to buy multiple parallel rooms in Zoom, yet, I haven't tested that.
- My plan is to buy the extra monthly payment to get their highest level. Still, I may need to check if they have an "enterprise" level deal that I could use for my largest event (like I had to do with some other offers).

Ah... Why 4 tacos? The lack of streaming makes running online events way more complicated for small business. For my large event, that is not an issue, because we already have to deal with that anyway, and there are sound/video vendors, etc. Yet, for a community event (the majority of my events), where you have a few people running the whole thing, it gets more complicated.

In the end, I acquired 2, 5-codes accounts. One to focus on smaller, community events (which I may or may not upgrade for the monthly deal) and one to focus on my large event, where if things go well, we will definitely upgrade and maybe even check a possible enterprise contract.

Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Bruno.