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Eventjoy (YC W14) Is A One-Stop Shop For Organizing Events
- _sentient 13y agoRidejoy, Pathjoy, Homejoy, Eventjoy. There's something about YC and a certain suffix...
- immad 13y agoPathjoy was renamed to Homejoy, so not really two examples.
- nathancahill 13y agoAre they "delightful"?
- dpiers 13y agoYou forgot Tipjoy (W08) and Snapjoy (S11). Another thing YC companies love is using "hello@" for their contact email address.
- zaidf 13y agoAlso Tapjoy too, not YC but a YC alum :)
- ivankirigin 13y agoTipjoy cofounder here. "joy" is a three letter word that is incredibly positive. To come up with the name, I wrote down every word that was about money and payment, and every one about happiness, and tipjoy was the shortest combo. I bought it for $8. The reason you see so many now is that these characteristics haven't changed.
- tgoldberg 13y agoAgreed about it being positive. Event organizing can be tough and we want to make it easy. I think "joy" helps emphasize this.
- jareau 13y agoDon't forget about the "zen" of YC: Zencoder, Zenefits, ZenPayroll, Zenbox, & Zenedy.
- jonnathanson 13y agoTheon Greyjoy would sue, but he's not doing much business under that name these days.
- faddotio 13y agoReek.ly?
- anigbrowl 13y agoYeah, cargo-cult branding is an automatic negative to me as a consumer - it says the firm has no USP and is basically seeking capital to engage in an insurgent price war with a weak incumbent. That's not inherently bad, but the endgame seems to be an identical pursuit of economic rents or acquisition by an established rentier.
- _delirium 13y agoObviously only one angle, but for paid events, looks slightly cheaper than the main incumbent, EventBrite: 5% + $0.99 (including CC processing) rather than 5.5% + $0.99.
- mathattack 13y agoSeems like this price should get driven to near free.
- _delirium 13y agoMy guess is that PayPal's pricing is close to a floor on the price at which you could profitably offer general CC processing (2.9% + $0.30). But PayPal doesn't handle event billing, which they argue has a higher risk of fraud. How much higher risk I don't know, but it seems vaguely plausible that 5.0% + $0.99 isn't a huge profit margin, when dealing with the whole mess of merchant fees + chargebacks + fraud.
- brianbreslin 13y agoAs someone who organizes a lot of events and uses eventbrite now I would love to see a price break for sub $10 tickets. A $5 ticket, the $.99 fee is almost 20% + 5% in cc fees gets tough to swallow. So things I would want to see in order to switch from EB: - Better ticket sales at the door (like square integration) - Better check-in/scanning systems - More flexible ticket types - hmm i could go on, just need more coffee right now. sidenote: I generate hundreds of dollars a month for eventbrite but their support is abysmal.
- tgoldberg 13y agoHey Brian - I'm Todd, one of the founders at Eventjoy. This is awesome feedback and I'd like to chat with you more. We can probably even help you out with that coffee situation. Could you send me an email at todd[AT]eventjoy[DOT]com Thanks!
- kumarski 13y agoWho's the customer base for something like this? Why would I use this as opposed to one of the many other event apps out there?
- tgoldberg 13y agoWe work a lot of with independent/non-professional organizers since they need tools that are a) affordable and b) are simple/do not have a large learning curve. Their events include everything from conferences to food and wine tastings. Event app wise, we have all the features you'd expect (event info, social integration, attendee profiles, etc). We also have some unique capabilities given that we handle ticketing/registration as well. Not to mention, it's completely free compared to $1000s.
- wildermuthn 13y agoI tried it out, and appreciated the category "Just Testing." I don't know how many things I've signed up for just to test. The only events I organize are get-togethers with friends. What I was hoping for was an Evite 2.0, but I suppose there's no money in organizing potlucks. Good work and good luck!
- gxespino 13y agoWere we not able to come up with something more descriptive than "easiest way to organize..."
- sarakb 13y agoEvents made easy was taken.
- spoiledtechie 13y agoCan someone please explain to me how they already have HomeDepot as a client? Its been around less than a year and HomeDepot already uses it? Am I missing some angle here?
- tgoldberg 13y agoSure thing. I'm one of the co-founders at Eventjoy. We created a mobile app for one of their internal meetings last month.