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Meet The People You Follow On Twitter With Conference Directory Lanyrd (YC W11)
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Re: Meet The People You Follow On Twitter With Conference Directory Lanyrd (YC W11)
#22We're pretty excited to be the first YC company to launch following the big funding announcement. It will be interesting to see if it affects the amount of attention we get from the launch.
This quote had me laughing: "Founded by Django creator Simon Willison and his wife Downe after finding themselves stuck on their honeymoon in Casablanca with nothing else to do". :) Congrats on the launch! ps: the site is pretty slow right now, can you crank up some instances or something?
love this quote!
Re: Meet The People You Follow On Twitter With Conference Directory Lanyrd (YC W11)
#23reimnds me of eventvue before it died.
We read the EventVue postmortem with interest: http://blog.eventvue.com/post/372936164/post-mortem
We're not really in the social-network-for-your-event market, though some of our functionality might address part of that problem space. Services like EventVue are limited in terms of growth because they need to convince conferences to sign up (and pay for the service) one at a time - it's a sales problem.
With Lanyrd, the event itself doesn't need to have anything to do with the site for a profile to be created - and the more events we have listed, the more valuable the service is to our users. We have over 5,000 events listed already, all entered by our community.
Thanks to Start Fund, we've got a healthy runway to figure out our business model. We have a bunch of options and we're confident we can find something that works for us.
Re: Meet The People You Follow On Twitter With Conference Directory Lanyrd (YC W11)
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Congrats on the site, didn't realise until now it was yc. Out of curiosity (I was considering the same) where else did you travel to?. Being that my principle goals are to do a round the world trip and finish my startup, I figured the best way would be for me to do them both at the same time.
We spent six months travelling, starting in Europe (a proper honeymoon in Corsica, then through France and Spain) and then moving to North Africa: Morocco and Egypt. We were travelling slowly - almost all overland without flying, and in no hurry to leave somewhere if we liked it. We ended up spending 7 weeks in Morocco because we were enjoying it so much (the original plan was just 2-3 weeks). We would have kept goin…
Wow, thanks so much for the insight. Are you guys from Brighton then? am based in Bournemouth.
I was looking at n.america / Asia and aus, the application to yc depends on my ability to stop procrastinating and actually get something ready!.
Re: Meet The People You Follow On Twitter With Conference Directory Lanyrd (YC W11)
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
We spent six months travelling, starting in Europe (a proper honeymoon in Corsica, then through France and Spain) and then moving to North Africa: Morocco and Egypt. We were travelling slowly - almost all overland without flying, and in no hurry to leave somewhere if we liked it. We ended up spending 7 weeks in Morocco because we were enjoying it so much (the original plan was just 2-3 weeks). We would have kept goin…
Wow, thanks so much for the insight. Are you guys from Brighton then? am based in Bournemouth. I was looking at n.america / Asia and aus, the application to yc depends on my ability to stop procrastinating and actually get something ready!.
Yup, we lived in Brighton for two and a half years before we started travelling.
Re: Meet The People You Follow On Twitter With Conference Directory Lanyrd (YC W11)
#26Any ideas how to memorize that name? Does it have a meaning I don't get (non-native speaker)?
Re: Meet The People You Follow On Twitter With Conference Directory Lanyrd (YC W11)
#27You've done a really great job with the site. Three things:
1) I reaaally hate the yellow buttons. Surely you can code or find some images that look better. :)
2) I'd love to be able to follow/track a person and the events s/he is arranging.
3) I'd also be interested to track events by some other measure - topic or location perhaps. A lot of things don't happen in my country outside the US, so I'd love to be able to monitor events in the capital without using RSS.
All in all a great job - there have been people before you to think of this, but none of them have made a site that was genuinely interesting and useful.
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#28Any ideas how to memorize that name? Does it have a meaning I don't get (non-native speaker)?
It's a "Web 2.0"-style dropped-vowel spelling of "lanyard". (Lanyards being commonly used at conferences to hold ID cards.)
Re: Meet The People You Follow On Twitter With Conference Directory Lanyrd (YC W11)
#29You've done a really great job with the site. Three things: 1) I reaaally hate the yellow buttons. Surely you can code or find some images that look better. :) 2) I'd love to be able to follow/track a person and the events s/he is arranging. 3) I'd also be interested to track events by some other measure - topic or location perhaps. A lot of things don't happen in my country outside the US, so I'd love to be able to…
Thanks for the feedback.
1) I'm rather fond of our yellow buttons myself.
2) You can track a person's events by following them on Twitter - at the moment the Lanyrd social graph and the Twitter graph are the same thing. We're going to add "follow" buttons on Lanyrd to make it easier to follow someone without having to go to Twitter to do it.
3) That's definitely coming. For the moment, you can use our RSS feeds for that (on the place pages, topic pages and even the topic-in-place pages) but it won't be an RSS-only feature forever.
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#30reimnds me of eventvue before it died.
We read the EventVue postmortem with interest: http://blog.eventvue.com/post/372936164/post-mortem We're not really in the social-network-for-your-event market, though some of our functionality might address part of that problem space. Services like EventVue are limited in terms of growth because they need to convince conferences to sign up (and pay for the service) one at a time - it's a sales problem. With Lanyrd,…
it seemed that the pivot they were taking at the end was in a similar direction to what lanyrd is doing. just a thought, is all.