How to piss off your users.

But if we toppled this horribly useless company, how could we laugh at the jokes based on it (think How I Met Your Mother: "Yes, I received your submissions Barney, and no, we will not be attending any parties in your pants." "But you enjoyed the evite, right? That was an ACTUAL picture of my pants.")?

In all seriousness, however, I'm a big fan of Facebook event creator. And as most of my friends are on Facebook, it saves me a lot of time and hassle to try to figure out everyone's phone number/address/email--just type in approximately the first four letters of their name, select them from the now extremely narrowed down list of friends with those four letters in their name, and tada! You have just completed what used to be several hours worth of work.

Now if only we could get our parents and distant relatives on, so we don't have to send all those wedding invitations by mail.

I hear this sentiment about eVite alot. I personally hate that they don't put the contact info in the email for me either, and people keep using it to send me invites. And their iCal import is provided only as a file, doesn't hook in to google calendar, 30 boxes, etc.

That said, lots of people have tried (and failed) to topple eVite. Maybe people keep using it because it caters to people that send out invites, and not to people receiving them--and there in lies the dissonance.

The only thing I've seen that circumvents eVite is facebook's own event inviter.

Anyone have a good strategy to topple eVite? (I'm not in the invitation business) It'd be an interesting thought experiment.