| Thanks for your feedback. This is very interesting. > Your two big competitors are Facebook (free for posting events) Facebook is not exactly a competitor because it's a walled garden. So you have to be part of the right groups or be suscribed to official pages to get events. It don't know about you, but all this facebook overhead is starting to bore me.
I love salsa, hip places and fancy. I want the best events for me NOW.
I love dive bars, cheap beer and sweaty rock. I want the best events NOW. > - Chicken & egg:
If you can't populate your event base with pre existing data, you may have a chicken/egg problem. Unless you have some magic crawler technology... I'd love to have a access to a event central database that curates events for me matching my taste and previous choices. I could pay a flat fee for a mobile app that could do that.
And I wouldn't mind it having ads for other places/events that could suit my taste. I have a hard time imagining that events curating is not a real problem.
Finding new places and fun events to go to is actually a pain. Is it a monetizable pain ? The linked article implies that Paul Graham thinks that this is not worthy of a shot (or a second shot).
Is it not monetizable enough ?
Is it a nut too tough to crack ? I wonder what the reasons are (I wish I have more research on the subject). Well, this problem got me thinking. If you want to keep talking about it, here's my email name.is.carl (@) gmail (you know what) |