Thanks ash - half true. Coffeeme started at my bachelor party, but HsuKen and I have decided to run separate companies. Weave focuses on synchronous and serendipitous meetings vs the more asynchronous nature of coffeme.
You guys probably don't read Geekwire often (the main Seattle startup news outlet), but John wrote about Weave here: http://bit.ly/1lRYACA
Seattle is taking off quite a bit faster than SF right now, mostly because my network is much bigger there.
Haha - @rrhoover you're great at these questions. You're the perfect PH founder.
To your question: There's a lot of interactions that I expected, but 2 were complete surprises:
1) I didn't realize how powerful a REconnection was. Users we meeting up with their friends nearby whom they hadn't talked to in years. The proximity thing made it extra easy to just walk over a couple blocks to reconnect.
2) It blew me away how often a lot of users come back to check the app. In our haste to get out the MVP, we didn't build in a "auto-load new people that signed up after you open the app" feature, which had the awkward side effect of everytime you open up the app, there's someone new.
I'm a big believer that monetizing too early hurts you more than it helps, that said I can imagine a number of ways to provide value-add services to both users and/or event organizers.
Examples:
- People may want promoted/featured access to others who don't mutually want to connect with them (thinking LinkedIn Inmails)
- Event organizers may want access/control/management of people that come to their events. They may also want to be able to quantify how people are connecting before/during/after their events for measurement and sponsorship purposes.
Too soon to tell, I'm sure I'll look back at this a couple years from now and realize I was way off. :)
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