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> If you want your friends to meet you at the bar, create an "Event". The event has a title of what the event is (e.g. "Going to the bar"). It has a description
by jlgaddis 6y ago
> If you want your friends to meet you at the bar, create an "Event". The event has a title of what the event is (e.g. "Going to the bar"). It has a description to get your friends excited (e.g. "$2 margaritas"). It has the address (e.g. "123 SomeBar St."). Lastly it has the time (e.g. "Tonight at 8pm"). As soon as you post it to the feed all of your friends get a notification that you just created a new event. They can then all tell you if they are going by hitting the "attend" button.
So you're making an app whose entire functionality is just one of Facebook's many features? And with Facebook already having a billion or so users -- a large fraction of which likely already use Facebook's "Events" for exactly this purpose -- how do you plan to get everyone to use this completely separate app -- that no one else they know of uses -- over Facebook?
I really do wish you the best of luck but it seems like you've got several things going against you before you've even really got started.
Just the whole "network effects" thing is gonna kill it.
- ryansam 6y agoYou mentioned one of the issues with Facebook. They built a product to connect everyone around the world with their friends online. Then added more features on to that (well I think the original facebook events has been there forever). But events was not their focus. I'm focusing only on events just for cliques of friends. I want to be the best at that and build a product that has the most value to those people.
- armatav 6y agoThis was exactly my excuse when I built the same app. Take a look at this; https://www.nfx.com/post/network-effects-manual https://www.nfx.com/post/network-effects-manual
- withinboredom 6y ago"You mean you're making an app whose entire functionality is just one of Craigslist's many features" -- and many successful businesses came from that. I think this is OK, many people are trying to get off and leave Facebook.