ryansam

Thank you for trying. And good catch on the typo. It might be better to go with a simple website similar to our mobile version of the site, we were just trying to do something cool.

Simply I strongly believe I can do it. My friends and I have encountered this problem over 100 times in the past two years and I just think there has to be a better solution than texting or snapchat. This problem bugged my friends and I so much there has to be a market of people who want something better.

Well there is a signup wall however it's "Sign in with Google" or "Sign in with Apple". For now it's iPhone only so by default everyone already has an account (after hitting the Apple button). Once on android I think Google is the default for that as well. Also I could use their APIs to send links to people who don't have the app.

You mentioned one of the issues with Facebook. They built a product to connect everyone around the world with their friends online. Then added more features on to that (well I think the original facebook events has been there forever). But events was not their focus. I'm focusing only on events just for cliques of friends. I want to be the best at that and build a product that has the most value to those people.

I do care a lot actually as this pandemic's risk is personal to me. But because of where I live the people are not responding they way they are in different states. It's not like the pandemic happened and all the sudden I had this idea. I had this idea before the pandemic, started working on it before the pandemic. Then the pandemic happened. As I have mentioned I don't want people using this app unless they already are going out regularly with their friends.

These are a lot of the challenges I know I'm going to have to figure out. I'm screenshotting this because it's actually a really good explanation of what I need to be working on. I just launched and I couldn't cover all these problems right away in my MVP, but I plan to cover all of them in the future. Thanks!

Well my signup screen (first thing the user sees) has a background photo of a night life party to set the tone. Maybe I should make it darkmode themed to set the tone more but I don't want to discourage people using this to meet up for coffee. I strongly agree though, lots of hard work will be needed to be put in culture.

The restrictions are very loose where I live, Houston, TX. I don't encourage using the app unless you are already going out regularly with your friends.

That would be a great growth hack. I wonder if instagram has any APIs for this. I don't know anything about processing speech but maybe if you posted on my app it would create a story on instagram or make a twitter post. Snapchat would be better for this because it's more private, not everybody wants everyone they know to come to an event they post.

I'm am not encouraging people should go out. Just the people that already are if they want they can use my app.

I would like to comment a little bit on my competitors. Facebook and meetup.com are search based events. If you want to find something to do you have to search it. You could get invited as well but if you don't you will never know about an event unless you actively look for it.

They are not the same culture ethier. I would not go on meetup.com to see if my friends are going to the bar. The same goes for Facebook. Also I'm 21 most of my friends don't use Facebook. I went on meetup.com to find coding events or networking events. A lot of my friends have never heard of meetup.com.

My problem is I hate texting people every time I'm trying to go out for the night. If people don't already have plans that I can go to, I have to create the plans. Then I have get everyone on board with them. I have texted like over 20 people doing this sometimes, and we don't always have a group chat, or want one. People hate group chats sometimes because you get included in a conversation that you didn't even want to be included in the first place. Plus your phone dings too much with group chats. And some people can't make it due to timing, or simple they don't want to go. So I would love an app where I can just go on it, see what all my friends are doing that night, and go to their events.

This seems like the best idea. I am friends with the owner of a high end bar and I am hosting my own events giving free chili to anyone willing to talk to about my app. I know many people there too. My other idea is asking my friends I know to go to the bar and form different groups of people each time. I would create the events ahead of time then show it to them when they all get there.

That is supposed to be a loading screen but I opted to work on more important things haha.

I live in Houston, TX. And the area I'm targeting does not have many restrictions on what you can do during the pandemic, it's almost the same as before the pandemic. But if I were to live somewhere else this would probably not be possible for me right now.