Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
Smart idea for a few reasons:
1. Event discovery isn't mediocre at best
2. Kids don't use calendars
3. Events are fragmented across many platforms (Facebook, Eventbrite, Splash, etc.)
This will be super useful at SXSW.
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This Tenqyu Life
@thistenqyulife · founder, tenqyu
@rrhoover For the event discovery part drop!in (http://idrop.in) is solving this quite elegantly. Including ML based data cleaning and prioritization. The app was Accenture Customer Innovation Award finalist (top 3 - globally) in 2016 and will list it's 1 million^st events in 2017.
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Kieran
@_kjakm · Software Developer
@rrhoover regarding your third point - won't this just fragment them onto yet another platform? Don't get me wrong, I like the idea (and actually worked on a similar product) but I think it fragments things further unless it dominates or pulls in events from those other services (if their API allows it).
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Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
@_kjakm I imagine Soon more as an aggregator of events. Anyone can "copy" event details from Facebook, Eventbrite, and other places.
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Kieran
@_kjakm · Software Developer
@rrhoover If it works out like that it will be super useful. 🤞
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Emmanuel Lemor
@exlemor · Cust. Exp., Prod. Mgmt etc are my world.
@_kjakm @rrhoover I have to agree with Kieran - if you aren't aggregating all of the major ones already then you're more adding to the problem than helping it...
or is your play to get bought by a Facebook/Eventbrite etc and replace their not-so-great even platform?
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