Rate My Startup: Hangchillparty.com

Hangchillparty answers who’s free to hang out. Right now. It's Twitter for hanging out.

When people want to hang out in the immediate future, they text or call friends. This is inefficient since you can only personally contact one person at a time, and you must then wait for a response. You don’t know who won’t respond or is unavailable. Social networking sites don’t alert you when a friend wants to socialize. They are also cluttered with irrelevant statuses.

Instead of tweets, we have “signals”. Users signal a green, yellow, or red light, which represents their social availability. These can be sent to facebook, twitter, email, and text message.

Users can join their friends’ signals to create real-time social groups, which does not exist on the web today. Or one user may update for his friends who are with him at that moment.

In the U.S, there are 43 million people between 16-25. This is our initial target market.

hangchillparty.com, we opened it up a few days ago.

Thanks, I appreciate your thoughts and feedback. -Drew

Thanks Petalpete. I appreciate your feedback. I'm curious, purely for feedback sake, how old are you? We're noticing interesting differences in feedback depending on age. We will continue gathering info and make the necessary changes.

I have a hard time believing users in your demographic (16-25) are really going to label themselves as "not doing jackshit".

I remember when I was in high school I would always be on AIM Friday and Saturday night, because naturally I had a curfew and that's what I did - go online. Funny thing is NOBODY was ever online Friday and Saturday night. Everybody was on for hours on end during the weekday of course, but come Fri/Saturday - not a soul. The point is, you know damn well everybody else had a curfew too and everybody else was doing jackshit online too, and everybody else was at most doing jackshit "over at someone else's house", - but nevertheless, it was an unspoken rule (apparently) that you make it look like you are out and about having a great time by not being on AIM.

Interesting. It looks like we need to provide more info on our login page. What you stated is how it works. A user can choose to be emailed or texted when a friend has signaled a green or yellow. You can then join these signals within hangchillparty, which allows for the real-time evite aspect you are talking about.