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by samhuk 1327 days ago
Kudos on the site design; fast, responsive, clean. Are you able to you tell us about your stack?

Am I right in thinking that it's essentially Facebook Events but traveling?

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Thank you, that’s really generous of you. It’s a dead simple stack — which is helpful as a solo founder — of rails as an API and react. I make liberal use of other saasy services.

It’s more complex than Facebook events in that there are fintech (payment) mechanisms built in. I’d describe it as Kickstarter meets FB events but with a focus on travel UX requirements

I wonder if Facebook never integrated payments because of the inevitability of scammers setting up fake events to extract down-payments, Fyre Festival style.

Out of curiosity, how does Villagers prevent Fyre Festival-like events?