Hey team! A few friends and I have been working on this project for a little while. Excited to get some people playing around with it.
Soon is a place to share and find what's happening, wherever and whenever it may be. With more events than ever, both IRL and digital, Soon makes sure you and your friends never miss something awesome.
Tired of missing that sale, live stream, AMA, pre-order, show premiere, birthday party, or happy hour? Often all we want is a simple nudge letting us know an event is starting.
Credit where credit is due, the inspiration here came from @benrbn and the Meerkat product. I loved the way they thought about scheduling live streams, and wanted to expand that experience to a variety of other content types.
P.S. If you'll be heading to Southby this weekend, be sure to follow the Best of SXSW account and subscribe to some of the events there!
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@mazzeo very cool Matt I'm going to definitely check it out
@mazzeo I love this product on first impression... A great way to connect people and events. Have you considered integrating http://www.ticketmaster.com event listings? ...This could grow the platform to new audiences... Imagine a Soon Calendar featuring all the "Home Games" of a local sports team where fans can connect with other season ticket-holders. Thanks for reading and for the inspiration. Best regards. JB.
@mazzeo Loving Soon! I can see the love that went into making this product. Brilliant idea of adding an event song (30 sec Spotify/iTunes preview I presume). Makes the event feel alive before it even started! Great job
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.
@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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@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).
@_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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@rrhoover If it works out like that it will be super useful. 🤞
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@_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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I got an early look at this app and its been rad to see all the fresh product decisions the team made. way to go guys
@mazzo: Slick app, especially for just an experiment! For some reason, I was expecting to see events in closer proximity to me, rather than all over the world. Is there a location feature I missed?
@playgraph nope... till you have density of users, location would have been a dead end...also, short term more focused on virtual events since that's where this product differentiates most
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The ultimate question in my view, is this a feature or a stand alone product?
I always felt this problem was big enough and worth solving, but I know dozens of companies and entrepreneurs (Yours truly being one) who have failed. I feel one of the biggest hurdles (And there are many) is creating a community of users in such a broad public facing application. The trend over the past several years is for more privacy and smaller networks where people feel comfortable sharing and communicating with one another.
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Product video is confusing and borderline useless as it fails to achieve its intended goal. That goal is telling me what the hell your app does. It could have used a voice over or text highlighting features instead of stock music. I had to look at the images to somewhat figure it out. There is also no onscreen touch indicator telling me what you are tapping in the video. I couldn'tfollow what was going on. Might want to go back to the drawing board on that one. 😖
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