Here is a selfie of the scalper I got the ticket from!
Definitely a fun concept.
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#12How does this prevent ticket forgery? I see a moving logo and the bar at the bottom, but what keeps me from creating a GIF overlay with that info for any pic?
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#13We need this for hackathons. Why do they need to take a selfie rather than just using their facebook profile picture?
Hackathons, yes. The selfie aspect makes it a fun/ceremonial part of the experience of the event. 1 day before, you get the email, you take your pic, and you get excited for the event the next day.
It would be interesting to have a post-event-page that has a gallery of all the selfie tickets after the event so that attendees could go there to see all who attended if they wanted a reminder of who they met and who to reach out to. Use my selfie ticket as proof i attended and as a request for the contact info of another attendee; "I was at the event as well, and wanted to get your contact info; here's my selfie ticket as proof I was there!"
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#14I'm honestly not sure about this concept, but props to Ticketleap for innovating and trying something new. Good work!
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#15Neat idea. One potential downside: people like me, who are incredibly non-photogenic.
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#16How does this prevent ticket forgery? I see a moving logo and the bar at the bottom, but what keeps me from creating a GIF overlay with that info for any pic?
Couple things help this. Clock ticking, colors aren't known until late, it's part of the app (you could tap "back"). But honestly, many of these events we work with weren't scanning barcodes. They were just collecting the paper tickets (which obviously can be printed over and over again) because scanning felt overkill. It's not right for every event, but, think about a 50 person smoked-BBQ event at your local brewery -- they're having the event to build their community and scanning barcodes seems weird for them.
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#17How does this prevent ticket forgery? I see a moving logo and the bar at the bottom, but what keeps me from creating a GIF overlay with that info for any pic?
Couple things help this. Clock ticking, colors aren't known until late, it's part of the app (you could tap "back"). But honestly, many of these events we work with weren't scanning barcodes. They were just collecting the paper tickets (which obviously can be printed over and over again) because scanning felt overkill. It's not right for every event, but, think about a 50 person smoked-BBQ event at your local brewery…
Yes! I have many customers who run events with anything from 50-1000 people and nobody wants to be bothered with scanning, even with the obvious advantages it provides.
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#18What about selling these tickets on StubHub? Can they be resold, since I now have my face on it?
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#19What about selling these tickets on StubHub? Can they be resold, since I now have my face on it?
You may have discovered an obvious feature of this approach.
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#20What about selling these tickets on StubHub? Can they be resold, since I now have my face on it?
You don't take the Selfie until 24 hours before (at most -- you can wait if you think you might sell it). Until then, there's a simple flow to email the ticket to someone else.