Developing a new product is all about the pivot: making sure you speak to real customers to find out their real problems, and then changing development direction to ensure your product soothes one of these pain points.
Sam Collins—long-time entrepreneur, ex-Edinburgher, recent Londoner, and founder of the Edinburgh Tech Meetup—understands this well. In the past couple of years, he’s become an expert about events, and how we use the web to organise, promote, and discover them.
Here’s an update from Sam about their latest innovation and new product, Eventasaurus, which you can start using today:
It has been a few months since we last updated you all about Bloop and for good reason—we have been busy working on a new events product and we’re finally ready to tell you about it.
Let me introduce Eventasaurus—like a “Tweetdeck for Events”, Eventasaurus is a productivity dashboard for events which syncs all of your event invitations from Facebook, Plancast, Meetup.com (with LinkedIn, Eventbrite and Lanyrd on the way) so you can RSVP and comment on your events across six different websites from one place! It’s rather awesome.
If you’re a regular face at local events and find it a bit manic and time-consuming to stay on top your events across Facebook, Meetup.com, LinkedIn, Plancast, Eventbrite, or Lanyrd—then we think you’ll really like Eventasaurus. Instead of visiting all of these event websites, Eventasaurus will pull them all to you, for free!
Eventasaurus is now in public beta and we will be starting to push it out to various tech and event blogs over the coming weeks—I would love your help in supporting us now as we disrupt the events industry with a selection of ninja-like productivity tools. You can support us on Facebook, Twitter, and you’ll find Eventasaurus at http://eventasaur.us—like, follow, roar, whatever, every bit of support really means a great deal to us!
Concerned about the fate of Bloop? Not to worry, Bloop has gained traction in a few spots around the world and we will continue to support our users by keeping the service running. We have found that Bloop has it’s place in the world, but will be very difficult turn into a financially sustainable product so we have shifted our focus onto Eventasaurus and we hope you’ll join us there.
See you all very soon!
P.S. Check out the live-action double dino intro to the new app!
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