David Prentell

@toddg777 what differentiates us against e.g Hangtime is that we are building an "Event Graph" for each user which allows us to provide event recommendations tailored to each user (no matter where they are in the world, on which platform or what preferences they might have). The event recommendation algoritm is something we're perfecting every day and as it's getting better and better it is...

@yanroux Just like a Google page rank the listings are free + based on the user's profile and location etc.. If promotors and event advertisers want to get on top (like Adwords) they pay per impressions and in markets with a lot of active users they also pay "per tickets sold" or "per sign-up". An organizer knows roughly how much a "guest" is worth, whether they are throwing an art gallery...

@yanroux YPlan does manual curation of cities (only London, Las Vegas, San Fran & NY). We have automated the curation completely and in this way we can cover all the big cities in the world. The event recommendation algoritm is something we're perfecting every day and as it's getting better and better it is also the one thing that makes us different against everyone else in combination with a...

We were meant to launch tomorrow, but since it leaked out on Product Hunt today everyone who sees this will be the first: Here's the iOS app that we've rebuilt from the ground up: https://itunes.apple.com/app/vamos-social-events-discovery/id546732445 Here's the web platform that scales and works across any device or platform http://getvamos.com

@nikitakorotaev we actually released a completely new web platform too, and an Android-app is just a couple of weeks away. On top of FB and Eventbrite, Vamos also pulls in events from Ticketmaster, Eventim and StubHub and we're adding more sources every month making us one of the most complete catalogues of events in the world with over half a million events monthly in our backend. What makes...