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I don't particular use Evite (I mean, I know what the site is, but that's about it.) What are these problems that Evite supposedly has? From what I seen, peopl

I don't particular use Evite (I mean, I know what the site is, but that's about it.) What are these problems that Evite supposedly has? From what I seen, people in general don't have a problem using them. Lay people, I mean.

jmorin007 18y ago
Using Evite is not the most intuitive thing in the world. We hear from lots of people who won't create invites using it because it's just too confusing to use.
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alaskamiller 18y ago
Not much. The biggest complaints has always been the placement of ads on the invitations and their insistence on drawing you to the site to look at any relevant information (which in turn increases the pageviews and expands their ad inventory). But that's their business model. Few other people have hooked on a more clever way of making money off invitations. These toys that people make, and yes they are just toys, flame out quite quickly despite people clamoring that Evite's evil and so on. Here's a list of other similar services taking on Evite: Mypunchbowl (complete event coordination) Planypus (fuzzy arrangement) Goovite (simplistic invitation system) Invitastic (pretty invite templates) Eventful Imthere Madeit Crush3r (hipster/pretty invite templates) Partee Renkoo (friends getting together) Skobee (dead) Socializr Upcoming Zvents Pownce can also be considered a similar service. Tack on the current trend of location-aware social apps like Loopt and you have another layer. Those apps are likely where these apps will evolve into. Plus the old standbys of email and phones. In the end they all do the same thing: you type in info and it gets sent out, sometimes you get to gussy up the invites. The strategic advantage you have is simply size and inertia. If there's going to be anyone that's capable of crushing Evite it would only be Facebook.
- drm237 18y ago
  Not Much? I think you may be in the minority of people who think that evite doesn't have many issues... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evite#Criticism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evite#Criticism http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1638344_1638341_1638337,00.html http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,16383... http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/magazine/16-02/su_evite http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/magazine/16-02/s... http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/magazine/13wwln-medium-t.html?_r=1&oref=slogin http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/magazine/13wwln-medium-t.h... http://www.evitesucks.com/ http://www.evitesucks.com/ http://www.jabrams.com/thetruthaboutevite.html http://www.jabrams.com/thetruthaboutevite.html http://venturebeat.com/2006/09/19/why-i-hate-evite/ http://venturebeat.com/2006/09/19/why-i-hate-evite/ http://valleywag.com/tech/modern-and-awkward/8-companies-we-all-hate-and-why-we-use-them-anyway-260371.php http://valleywag.com/tech/modern-and-awkward/8-companies-we-...
  - alaskamiller 18y ago
    Yeah, I went through the same exercise with developing a product in this field and went through all those links and used it as justification of how an Evite killer is possible. All those links end up talking about the same 2 things over and over again: - ads on the invites - email bait you to visit the site Great, but that's how they make money and they've been profitable with a small staff for a long long long long long long long long time. Most of the other invitation sites focus on niches, Renkoo on the concept of friends getting together, Crush3r on hipster stylings, MyPunchbowl on coordinating the whole event, Socializr on being a social network, so on so forth. Besides Facebook, MyPunchbowl is the only other service getting quite a bit of traction. But it ends up being the same concept: single input info, multiple output info. I really believe this is a game of user conquest and attrition. Without the momentum and money to stay in the fight for the long haul, Evite (which has already been genericized) will just keep on chugging along. Either way, good luck with the site and I'm sure you're much smarter than me at figuring out how to make this work.

jmorin007 18y ago

Using Evite is not the most intuitive thing in the world. We hear from lots of people who won't create invites using it because it's just too confusing to use.

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alaskamiller 18y ago

Not much. The biggest complaints has always been the placement of ads on the invitations and their insistence on drawing you to the site to look at any relevant information (which in turn increases the pageviews and expands their ad inventory). But that's their business model. Few other people have hooked on a more clever way of making money off invitations. These toys that people make, and yes they are just toys, flame out quite quickly despite people clamoring that Evite's evil and so on. Here's a list of other similar services taking on Evite: Mypunchbowl (complete event coordination) Planypus (fuzzy arrangement) Goovite (simplistic invitation system) Invitastic (pretty invite templates) Eventful Imthere Madeit Crush3r (hipster/pretty invite templates) Partee Renkoo (friends getting together) Skobee (dead) Socializr Upcoming Zvents Pownce can also be considered a similar service. Tack on the current trend of location-aware social apps like Loopt and you have another layer. Those apps are likely where these apps will evolve into. Plus the old standbys of email and phones. In the end they all do the same thing: you type in info and it gets sent out, sometimes you get to gussy up the invites. The strategic advantage you have is simply size and inertia. If there's going to be anyone that's capable of crushing Evite it would only be Facebook.

drm237 18y ago
Not Much? I think you may be in the minority of people who think that evite doesn't have many issues... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evite#Criticism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evite#Criticism http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1638344_1638341_1638337,00.html http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,16383... http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/magazine/16-02/su_evite http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/magazine/16-02/s... http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/magazine/13wwln-medium-t.html?_r=1&oref=slogin http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/magazine/13wwln-medium-t.h... http://www.evitesucks.com/ http://www.evitesucks.com/ http://www.jabrams.com/thetruthaboutevite.html http://www.jabrams.com/thetruthaboutevite.html http://venturebeat.com/2006/09/19/why-i-hate-evite/ http://venturebeat.com/2006/09/19/why-i-hate-evite/ http://valleywag.com/tech/modern-and-awkward/8-companies-we-all-hate-and-why-we-use-them-anyway-260371.php http://valleywag.com/tech/modern-and-awkward/8-companies-we-...
- alaskamiller 18y ago
  Yeah, I went through the same exercise with developing a product in this field and went through all those links and used it as justification of how an Evite killer is possible. All those links end up talking about the same 2 things over and over again: - ads on the invites - email bait you to visit the site Great, but that's how they make money and they've been profitable with a small staff for a long long long long long long long long time. Most of the other invitation sites focus on niches, Renkoo on the concept of friends getting together, Crush3r on hipster stylings, MyPunchbowl on coordinating the whole event, Socializr on being a social network, so on so forth. Besides Facebook, MyPunchbowl is the only other service getting quite a bit of traction. But it ends up being the same concept: single input info, multiple output info. I really believe this is a game of user conquest and attrition. Without the momentum and money to stay in the fight for the long haul, Evite (which has already been genericized) will just keep on chugging along. Either way, good luck with the site and I'm sure you're much smarter than me at figuring out how to make this work.