http://www.youvoteevents.com/
I made it on a whim to create a web property for the real start-up I work for, reco jeans. All of the content I added myself a while back.
What do you think, HN, does the idea have potential? Should I actually focus on bringing users to it or abandon it?
- I don't like the idea of a dedicated logon. Have you thought of using a person's Facebook, Twitter, etc. logins? And how about using Facebook connect to tell me which events have been upvoted/submittedby my friends.
- How do you prevent spammers?
- What are the incentives of a user to submit an event? I can imagine there are times where users don't want an event to get too crowded (e.g. Tim Burton exhibit at the MOMA). Or only have my posse know about it.
- How are you going to stop people from making private parties public (similar to what happened to that guy in England coupla years back, who posted a private party to his public facebook page, 100s showed up and trashed his parent's place)
- Maybe that's just for site launch, but seems a bit odd that this is NYC-specific, despite the URL having nothing to do with NYC.
Events are geographic oriented, and NYC is where our company is, so it made sense to make it only NYC oriented.
I'm pretty tied up regarding software, like Facebook, Twitter, etc. The programming part is all done by Slinkset, I can only change some design features, the right-side column, and the marketing.
As far as spammers go, I figure I would have to do it manually.
I imagine the power-users would be event promoters, who would try to get their stuff to the top