I’m 26 and have been using Facebook since middle school. At a certain point, the only thing I used it for was Facebook Events, because all of my friends were already on the platform. But also, it’s just a super easy way to view event details and track attendance.
I noticed that my sister, who is 19 and never had Facebook, is in a separate WhatsApp group for each event that is created with friends. I think that’s a little crazy and inefficient. It’s so wild to me that people her age probably don’t even know that something like Facebook events exists!
Besides for people like her, there are plenty around my age that are beginning to leave Facebook. So I figured, why shouldn’t we have something similar that isn’t tied to Facebook?
I hacked together https://www.inviteable.app. I don’t really know if there’s a market for it. I’m curious what others think.
Part of the problem with a standalone event app is that you don't get the network effects of normal social networks or the daily usage.
One interesting route might be to make an entire social media app / platform around this. Not with the meeting up itself being the core component, but that "event" concept from Facebook.
I have an event coming up this weekend that I'm tracking on Facebook and would have probably forgot about otherwise. There has been a lot going on in there leading up to the event. Conversations around reservations, parking, plans, well wishes of people who can't make it.
Each event (again the software component not the meatspace counterpart) acts as it's own self contained social network almost.
One interesting thing I've actually considered before about events on Facebook is that all the best content for the event usually doesn't go in there. The pictures and discussions for after. The inside jokes and so on. With facebooks design there isn't really a good reason to go back to the event after it has passed.
If you built an app around that you might be able to approach it differently.
Just some rambling thoughts. Cool idea - good luck!