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by agranok 2147 days ago
Hey, I work on Venu. We're actually in the process of coming up with some new content/verbiage for the site because we actually agree with you. We came up with content for this very early on in development. This landing page served initially as a way for people to sign up for closed beta and eventually we don't plan to use it. But yea we will come up something better in the future for sure! Thanks!
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Feature request: Can the events that are free have something other than a "purchase ticket" button? That's making me vaguely uncomfortable for some reason. Maybe just a H1 saying that it's free and more emphasis on adding it to a calendar? Should free events need accounts? You might get more traffic if they don't. And with more traffic you get more eyes on the content that does cost money.
For sure! In our cart view we don't ask for payment info, but definitely hear you on this. We'll begin discussing what changes are needed to facilitate this. We are trying to keep the barrier to entry low -- for both creating & viewing so this would certainly do that!
I think this has great potential, and immediately understood the value offering of it before visiting the page. That said, I'm glad you're re-crafting the landing page.

A couple suggestions/phrasings that come to mind and - at least in my opinion - would quickly convey the intent of the platform: "Make the world your next convention venue"

Okay, maybe I'm worse at this than I thought...