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Review our startup: Lanyrd, the social conference directory
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Re: Review our startup: Lanyrd, the social conference directory
#22I like it. Since I go to conferences basically for a living, I will definitely be using it a lot. Some kind of integration with Plancast (there's already some overlap, ideally for me I'd like to see them merged) would be nice.
And some UX feedback:
- Place selection requires full state name (Austin, TX didn't work) which was unexpected
- Picking a lanyrd URL for the event I added seemed like an unnecessary step. Just pick the best one!
- One-click track or attend option in dashboard and all conferences list
Overall, very well done. Looking forward to using it regularly.
Re: Review our startup: Lanyrd, the social conference directory
#23Sign in with Twitter? Seriously? Are standalone user/password systems so hard to add and get right? (I'm serious about this; it seems like a solved problem, yet there also seems to be a number of sites that punt on that, and want me to couple their site with my account on some other site, which I really do not want to do as a default.) Maybe people need throwaway Twitter accounts, like there is for E-mail.
It's not hard to add, but it's so much more useful to me to not make Yet Another Account.
Then it's a matter of picking the audience you want for an app, knowing you'll be losing potential users.
Re: Review our startup: Lanyrd, the social conference directory
#24Having got to play with the site yesterday, I was impressed that one of MY conferences was already listed with speakers, attendees and myself listed as an editor, its a really nice interface which impressed me straight off. The only thing I would suggest would be also having facebook connect or whatever its called this week as even though we are a web conference, only 60% of our audience has a twitter account however…
I would recommend LinkedIn over Facebook, people will likely want to use their professional profiles for attending conferences.
Re: Review our startup: Lanyrd, the social conference directory
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not hard to add, but it's so much more useful to me to not make Yet Another Account.
Then it's a matter of picking the audience you want for an app, knowing you'll be losing potential users.
What bothers you about using your Twitter or Facebook account? Just wondering, since I've considered relying only on Facebook Connect/Twitter for projects in the future.
Re: Review our startup: Lanyrd, the social conference directory
#26This is the most useful approach to event discovery since Upcoming. I was thrilled to see it in my Twitter list earlier, and I'm thrilled about the amount of attention it's getting.
I have just one request: feeds. Everywhere. I'd love to subscribe to a user, and have new events they're attending show up in my reader - similarly, I'd love to subscribe to a place.
The Twitter integration really works for me as opposed to Facebook; the former tends to be professional connections, while the latter is friends. However, I understand that others might feel differently. (OpenID would obviously also be brilliant, with some social graph discovery etc, but I imagine you've already thought about that.)
Re: Review our startup: Lanyrd, the social conference directory
#27How to build the location database used for adding a conference location? It seems quite comprehensive. Where do startups get this data?
Re: Review our startup: Lanyrd, the social conference directory
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Then it's a matter of picking the audience you want for an app, knowing you'll be losing potential users.
What bothers you about using your Twitter or Facebook account? Just wondering, since I've considered relying only on Facebook Connect/Twitter for projects in the future.
Matters of trust and privacy. I want to be able to change/cancel services without wondering if there's some forgotten dependency.
Often I try something out first to see if it's worth the trouble. I don't want to give out some other account info for something I may not even be bothered using.
I can see offering, as an option, the use of twitter/facebook/gmail whatever, but not to the exclusion of a standalone account. Especially since, as you say, it's easy to add.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Then it's a matter of picking the audience you want for an app, knowing you'll be losing potential users.
What bothers you about using your Twitter or Facebook account? Just wondering, since I've considered relying only on Facebook Connect/Twitter for projects in the future.
Facebook squicks me, and I just don't "get" twitter. I think I have a facebook account lying around somewhere, created to look at someone's facebook content, once, but I'd have to dig it up. I admit I'm extremely eccentric in this respect, though.
Re: Review our startup: Lanyrd, the social conference directory
#30How to build the location database used for adding a conference location? It seems quite comprehensive. Where do startups get this data?
The colophon http://lanyrd.com/colophon/ says GeoPlanet: http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/geoplanet/