[robryan]

Congratulations on launching something, it's great to get that initial step out the way.

I guess the key thing to ask about this is what is the unique value proposition over other services? Mainly Facebook where the vast majority of potential users probably already have their social graphs.

A couple of years back I thought about doing an events site thinking that there was space for someone to be basically social network agnostic and as well as leaveraging those services focus on email as everyone has email. Facebook has grown a lot since then though.

I think you have to use the tighter niche focus as an advantage and really zero in on what you can add to the events experience over the more broad events on things like Facebook. A good example is the photo sharing app called Batch the came out this week, really feels like a better user experience in creating albums of photos because they have focused in on just that aspect.

[Inc82]

If this is a flawed idea you can let me know (and I'm open to your thoughts) but this is what I'm operating under right now: I, nor no one I know, uses FB events for casual get togethers. Want to get together for drinks at the bar tonight after work? I wouldn't use FB events. I could send text messages to friends sure, or I could call them sure, but this is a fun easy way to accomplish that. That's what I want, and I don't have anything else that fulfills that.. if there is something else it hasn't made its way onto my desk yet. So its just a simple way t odo that, that's the value proposition at the moment.