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Plancast Is Foursquare... For The Future
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#12Somebody asked recently what I meant when I said lots of startups make things for technically-inclined twenty-something males. I meant that lots of startups make things like this. If your first thought after "I kind of want to go out to dinner on Thursday." is "I wonder if a site exists that can broadcast this to my social networks yet?", you are solidly in the demographic most B2C startups seem to care about. There…
Most of the people I know in their 30s and 40s married with kids are completely desperate for more social opportunities.
This is the sort of thing where you can see that Marge and Dave from a couple streets over are going out to dinner Saturday and it's a chance to join in.
Given the way physical communities just aren't communities these days, this sort of site is a chance to reverse that.
Who do you think is on facebook and twitter anyway?
Re: Plancast Is Foursquare... For The Future
#13Somebody asked recently what I meant when I said lots of startups make things for technically-inclined twenty-something males. I meant that lots of startups make things like this. If your first thought after "I kind of want to go out to dinner on Thursday." is "I wonder if a site exists that can broadcast this to my social networks yet?", you are solidly in the demographic most B2C startups seem to care about. There…
Of course not everyone is going to want to broadcast every move they are going to make, but that isn't half of what Plancast can offer you. For example, a couple weeks ago I learned that Marcy Playground had released a new CD and was touring. I was bumbed I missed their show simply because I didn't know about it. Now, if Marcy Playground was on Plancast I could've just subscribed to their upcoming feed and easily hav…
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#14whoa. that signup was extremely frictionless with both twitter and facebook. i already found friends and plans i share with them without doing anything really. i'm impressed.
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#15It's an excellent idea, and in Trumps voice: This is going to be huge.
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#16This reminds me of dopplir, in essence but much more localised. I'll never use this myself but I can see this doing well.
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#17Wait, wait... A few hours ago I submitted a link about Sponty and how they can compete with Foursquare. (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=969221).
It's kind funny how the techcrunch article gets instantly lots of votes, and link to random blogger gets ignored.
Anyway, Sponty also offers a social calendar, where you can broadcast your intentions, and also have feeds for different events.
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#18Wait, wait... A few hours ago I submitted a link about Sponty and how they can compete with Foursquare. ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=969221 ). It's kind funny how the techcrunch article gets instantly lots of votes, and link to random blogger gets ignored. Anyway, Sponty also offers a social calendar, where you can broadcast your intentions, and also have feeds for different events.
There's a large glut of "this new service is like foursquare" submissions over the past few days.
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#19Very impressed by the date handling. I entered Thursday to Saturday and it figured out what I meant.
However, I can't make it understand ranges further in the future. For example, I'm going to All Tomorrow's Parties from 11th Dec to 13th Dec and I can't make Plancast understand that.
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#20Very impressed by the date handling. I entered Thursday to Saturday and it figured out what I meant. However, I can't make it understand ranges further in the future. For example, I'm going to All Tomorrow's Parties from 11th Dec to 13th Dec and I can't make Plancast understand that.
Funny story, turns out I forgot to commit our latest date_parser before Thanksgiving break and then accidentally over-wrote it with the one from the repository because I thought it would be the most up to date.
So, the current date parser has some bugs that were caught and fixed and then lost. The good news is I have re-fixed most of all those bugs and I just tested "11th Dec to 13th Dec" and it parsed it correctly. The new parser should be pushed live in a day or so.