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Eventjoy (YC W14) Is A One-Stop Shop For Organizing Events

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Ridejoy, Pathjoy, Homejoy, Eventjoy. There's something about YC and a certain suffix...

You forgot Tipjoy (W08) and Snapjoy (S11).

Another thing YC companies love is using "hello@" for their contact email address.

Tipjoy cofounder here.

"joy" is a three letter word that is incredibly positive.

To come up with the name, I wrote down every word that was about money and payment, and every one about happiness, and tipjoy was the shortest combo. I bought it for $8.

The reason you see so many now is that these characteristics haven't changed.

Agreed about it being positive. Event organizing can be tough and we want to make it easy. I think "joy" helps emphasize this.

Also Tapjoy too, not YC but a YC alum :)

Don't forget about the "zen" of YC: Zencoder, Zenefits, ZenPayroll, Zenbox, & Zenedy.

Yeah, cargo-cult branding is an automatic negative to me as a consumer - it says the firm has no USP and is basically seeking capital to engage in an insurgent price war with a weak incumbent. That's not inherently bad, but the endgame seems to be an identical pursuit of economic rents or acquisition by an established rentier.

Theon Greyjoy would sue, but he's not doing much business under that name these days.

Reek.ly?

Are they "delightful"?

Pathjoy was renamed to Homejoy, so not really two examples.

I tried it out, and appreciated the category "Just Testing." I don't know how many things I've signed up for just to test.

The only events I organize are get-togethers with friends. What I was hoping for was an Evite 2.0, but I suppose there's no money in organizing potlucks. Good work and good luck!

As someone who organizes a lot of events and uses eventbrite now I would love to see a price break for sub $10 tickets. A $5 ticket, the $.99 fee is almost 20% + 5% in cc fees gets tough to swallow.

So things I would want to see in order to switch from EB: - Better ticket sales at the door (like square integration) - Better check-in/scanning systems - More flexible ticket types - hmm i could go on, just need more coffee right now.

sidenote: I generate hundreds of dollars a month for eventbrite but their support is abysmal.

Hey Brian - I'm Todd, one of the founders at Eventjoy. This is awesome feedback and I'd like to chat with you more. We can probably even help you out with that coffee situation. Could you send me an email at todd[AT]eventjoy[DOT]com

Thanks!

Obviously only one angle, but for paid events, looks slightly cheaper than the main incumbent, EventBrite: 5% + $0.99 (including CC processing) rather than 5.5% + $0.99.

Seems like this price should get driven to near free.

My guess is that PayPal's pricing is close to a floor on the price at which you could profitably offer general CC processing (2.9% + $0.30). But PayPal doesn't handle event billing, which they argue has a higher risk of fraud. How much higher risk I don't know, but it seems vaguely plausible that 5.0% + $0.99 isn't a huge profit margin, when dealing with the whole mess of merchant fees + chargebacks + fraud.

Can someone please explain to me how they already have HomeDepot as a client? Its been around less than a year and HomeDepot already uses it? Am I missing some angle here?

Sure thing. I'm one of the co-founders at Eventjoy. We created a mobile app for one of their internal meetings last month.

Who's the customer base for something like this? Why would I use this as opposed to one of the many other event apps out there?

We work a lot of with independent/non-professional organizers since they need tools that are a) affordable and b) are simple/do not have a large learning curve. Their events include everything from conferences to food and wine tastings.

Event app wise, we have all the features you'd expect (event info, social integration, attendee profiles, etc). We also have some unique capabilities given that we handle ticketing/registration as well. Not to mention, it's completely free compared to $1000s.

Were we not able to come up with something more descriptive than "easiest way to organize..."

Events made easy was taken.

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