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Y Combinator’s Anyvite Takes On Evite, Keeps Things Simple

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Re: Y Combinator’s Anyvite Takes On Evite, Keeps Things Simple

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Post by jmorin007 »

phd2000 wrote: post #11

Good luck on this but everyone I know just uses Facebook to coordinate events. Plus Facebook Mobile lets you keep updated even on the go.

We realize that Facebook is a dominant competitor in this market space and a lot of people use it for creating events, but there are still some people we've talked to who aren't entirely happy with it, as well as some market segments out there that aren't avid Facebook users.

Re: Y Combinator’s Anyvite Takes On Evite, Keeps Things Simple

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Post by jmorin007 »

omnipath wrote: post #13

I don't particular use Evite (I mean, I know what the site is, but that's about it.) What are these problems that Evite supposedly has? From what I seen, people in general don't have a problem using them. Lay people, I mean.

Using Evite is not the most intuitive thing in the world. We hear from lots of people who won't create invites using it because it's just too confusing to use.

Re: Y Combinator’s Anyvite Takes On Evite, Keeps Things Simple

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Post by apu »

Some minor suggestions/bugs:

1. It would be nice to have a button which pops-up a small calendar (something like on kayak.com or any other flight site). The automatic parsing is nice, but for the less web-savvy, a button would be easier to grok.

2. The time parsing is a little funky. If I type in 9:30, it auto-detects as PM. If I add a space after that, it suddenly switches to AM. This might catch people off guard.

3. The auto date parsing is awesome (with the 'natural language' feature). However, I found that the word 'tonight' doesn't work...perhaps you want to add it to your dict?

Re: Y Combinator’s Anyvite Takes On Evite, Keeps Things Simple

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Post by jmorin007 »

apu wrote: post #15

Some minor suggestions/bugs: 1. It would be nice to have a button which pops-up a small calendar (something like on kayak.com or any other flight site). The automatic parsing is nice, but for the less web-savvy, a button would be easier to grok. 2. The time parsing is a little funky. If I type in 9:30, it auto-detects as PM. If I add a space after that, it suddenly switches to AM. This might catch people off guard. 3…

Great suggestions! We're definitely going to add the pop up calendar ASAP and will look into the other bugs with the date and time stuff.

Thanks for the recommendations!

Re: Y Combinator’s Anyvite Takes On Evite, Keeps Things Simple

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Post by drm237 »

morbidkk wrote: post #16

Havent you guys checked purpleTrail.com It has even more features; please check out

Yeah, we have seen purpletrail. As the article said, we're going for simple and straightforward. We're also pretty big believers that "more features" does not mean something is better.
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