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- Sara Itani
- Megan Kercher
- Eric Lubell
- TA: (TA's name)
Problem Statement
1. Managing a social calendar is difficult and inefficient: You have to call/text tons of people, take into account availability, remind people to come, figure out who's bringing what, etc.
2. Most event managers (Facebook, Meetup.com, etc.) are for planning events far in advance. It's very difficult to get people together for something you want to do on short notice (like a basketball game, dinner, game of chess, ...)
3. Hard to know who's in town to invite and filter friends in general. Facebook's "scroll through all your friends and check their box if you want to invite them" is a really really bad way to do this.
4. This is Adam Smith's idea, but online dating is a completely flawed model because meeting people by friends of friends is the best way to form relationships. http://blog.adamsmith.cc/2011/02/towards-better-online-dating.html
5. Current event managers are somewhat impersonal and non-customizable
Eric's idea for problem statement:
Organizing the short-notice, quasi-important social events (like a basketball game, dinner, game of chess, ...) that make up a great portion of our everyday lives has not been tackled very successfully by any social networking site. We feel that there is demand in today's society for a quick, accessible, and non-committal way to initiate the forming of an event, then unobtrusively inform others on an exclusive or non-exclusive basis, and have quick feedback as to who is interested in attending. We have two particular objectives that would make this website particular attractive to users: an easier/more efficient way to invite people to an event than Facebook (scroll through all your friends and check their box if you want to invite them) and a map interface that gives you a spatial perspective as to where the event is occurring/ what other events may be happening in any particular area.0
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