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While the app itself is fantastic, it's limited in scope and this functionality is already offered by Twitter, Facebook, or any other social network with status updates...still a good piece of software, but I can't see it catching on when you can do the same thing with just a simple Facebook or Twitter update where all your friends who are already in those social networks will see it...good follow-through, but the concept definitely needs work.

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Thanks for the feedback. We're working on building out really interesting functionality while maintaining the simplicity of the app. We believe there is real value in providing a single forum where you can find what people in your network, and in your area are doing tonight.

Rather than hunting for plans posted on Twitter and/or Facebook, you can always rely on doingtonight to find out what people are doing tonight, without having to sort through all kinds of unrelated conversations.

We also think people have a different identity at night, and don't want to mix that up with their identity on the rest of the social graph.

But you're absolutely right that we have to do a lot of work before we realize this potential!

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