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Hi, I created a quick landing page to validate an idea for an app. I'll be honest, the idea isn't mine. I saw it suggested in a Twitter post which had huge tra

Hi, I created a quick landing page to validate an idea for an app. I'll be honest, the idea isn't mine. I saw it suggested in a Twitter post which had huge traction, and decided to run with it. At the moment I'm just trying to refine the concept and get an idea of whether there really is space for something like this out there

itake 7y ago
Do people send calendar invites when hanging out with friends? Personally, if a meetup did actually make it into my calendar, I would not ship it to a friend.
- chris140957 7y ago
  I did wonder that. Personally, I put social events in my calendar but don't specifically invite the other people to it. I'm still validating the concept, but am initially leaning towards this being more of an integration with calendar services, particularly facebook where people probably do have common invites
  - itake 7y ago
    I've only used FB events among friends for big events (Lets all go to Vegas!) and even then most of the coordination happens in a chat group.
- JohnFen 7y ago
  > Do people send calendar invites when hanging out with friends? I've literally never had that happen, personally. That doesn't mean it doesn't happen, though.
bennicholes 7y ago
i saw the tweet as well. if you want some help designing and researching UX and flows, let me know.
nrclark 7y ago
How do you get people to use it? Like let's say I have drinks plans with my friend, and I want to bail using this service. How to I tell her to install the app? Wouldn't asking her to install it be pretty rude? It would basically be saying "Hey, FYI I like to bail on stuff a lot. So you probably shouldn't make any plans involving me." I could see that stigma as a critical roadblock against growing the kind of user-base you'd need for this to get popular.
dang 7y ago
Please don't submit such things as Show HNs. It's explicitly not what that is for: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.

itake 7y ago

Do people send calendar invites when hanging out with friends? Personally, if a meetup did actually make it into my calendar, I would not ship it to a friend.

chris140957 7y ago
I did wonder that. Personally, I put social events in my calendar but don't specifically invite the other people to it. I'm still validating the concept, but am initially leaning towards this being more of an integration with calendar services, particularly facebook where people probably do have common invites
- itake 7y ago
  I've only used FB events among friends for big events (Lets all go to Vegas!) and even then most of the coordination happens in a chat group.
JohnFen 7y ago
> Do people send calendar invites when hanging out with friends? I've literally never had that happen, personally. That doesn't mean it doesn't happen, though.

bennicholes 7y ago

i saw the tweet as well. if you want some help designing and researching UX and flows, let me know.

nrclark 7y ago

How do you get people to use it? Like let's say I have drinks plans with my friend, and I want to bail using this service. How to I tell her to install the app? Wouldn't asking her to install it be pretty rude? It would basically be saying "Hey, FYI I like to bail on stuff a lot. So you probably shouldn't make any plans involving me." I could see that stigma as a critical roadblock against growing the kind of user-base you'd need for this to get popular.

dang 7y ago

Please don't submit such things as Show HNs. It's explicitly not what that is for: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.