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Co-Founding a Startup
- hbz 15y agoWould this pull event data from existing social networks like Facebook, foursquare etc?
- jewgonewild 15y agoCurrently from foursquare. But we have some ideas we want to play with in the future.
- calebelston 15y agoThese guys are solid.
- djb_hackernews 15y agoI have been building something similar as a side project. http://impromptudo.com http://impromptudo.com. (also an even less polished mobile version at http://m.impromptudo.com http://m.impromptudo.com, but it should auto detect your mobile browser) At one point you could post your own stuff, but was removed after some feedback and I just didn't have the critical mass to avoid users posting something to do, and not hear from anyone else and then deem my app useless. Edit: Ha, just noticed I replied in the comments when the original post went up that I had something brewing for his startup idea.
- stevenj 15y agoAre you still actively working on this?
- djb_hackernews 15y agoDefine active. It's a side project. I'd say now I put in about 4 hours/week. I know it needs to be more, but life is busy. But it generally flies itself. I'm pulling in events from several services, at about 400/day over the 12 "most active" cities in the US. Right now my priorities are: * Add more cities * Improve data quality * Improve mobile version (maybe android app) * Add more filtering * run google adwords campaign And much more. Plenty of work.
- mikegee 15y agoGodspeed!
- jw84 15y agoSounds like http://hurricaneparty.com/ http://hurricaneparty.com/ and it sounds really fun if executed really well.
- ctide 15y agoI think this is a problem that's going to be solved more correctly via things like group messaging rather than a direct solution, but it's certainly an interesting problem to tackle.
- jsavimbi 15y agoGroup messaging currently solves the problem, but as we become more complex and technology aware, other solutions will bloom to meet our growing necessities, imo.
- ctide 15y agoGroup messaging is certainly not an ideal solution to it, but I think it's probably better than any focused solution. It's one of those problems that any solution that is focused on solving that problem is useless far too often to ever take hold. The best solution to this is something that makes it easier to communicate with people -- not something that makes it easier to 'plan instant events'.
- allanscu 15y agoCongrats and good luck.