Feedback on Website Idea

**alpapa23** · 01-27-2011 12:58 PM

Here’s the idea – it’s a website that aggregates the events in your life (no not like facebook) and stores the people, places, and interactions around that event in a timeline like fashion. Events can be public or private. The end result is to have a timeline of events in your life that you can choose to share, or not to share. You can add photos, comments, videos around that event.

Take for example a wedding. I invite people to my wedding event. Both during (using mobile) and after the wedding, they can add comments, upload pictures, videos, stories and it’s all tied to the wedding. I, or anyone who was invited, can go back at anytime and see what everyone said, see everyone’s pictures, comments, guestbook, stories etc. After the wedding you have a honeymoon - the places you go to, photos you take at that place, reviews of that place can all be tied together.

You would also be able to go and create past events that already happened or plan for events that havent happened yet. Remember your 7th birthday? No. Well if you created an event and uploaded pictures/videos from it you would have that event stored forever. Events don’t have to be big gatherings either, they could be small events like a purchase you made.

There’s a lot more floating around in my head with this, but I just wanted to get people’s initial reactions/feedback to this type of idea. I know these types of websites dont always equate to large revenue without very high traffic, but I like the idea anyways.

**Travissimo** · 01-28-2011 02:52 AM

You could make the site name "e-genda" (agenda)

**Hipster Mike** · 01-28-2011 02:54 AM

The general idea is great! The only problem people are going to use the event feature in Facebook, it's really hard to branch out to your own "event" making site, because Facebook and others have implementations like this. You have to offer something that Facebook nor anyone can do. With TweetDeck you can post a tweet about a purchase you made and it can get posted right on your Facebook and even to an event.

So this is your question you need to ask yourself, what can you provide people that will want to come to your site other than Facebook, the idea itself is not bad, but a lot of the things you were saying can already be done with a lot more popular social networking sites.

**experimentjon** · 01-30-2011 02:08 AM

+1 to Hipster Mike. The idea is good. But indeed, most of the demand for that is fulfilled by Facebook. And the fact that everyone is using it already builds the "network benefits" and raises barriers to entry rather high. I'm not here to rain on the parade, but already, it'd be a hard sell to get people to get off Facebook and onto another service unless there are substantial other benefits.

**crozuk** · 02-08-2011 09:17 AM

Sounds like and interesting idea and strangely have actually been looking for something similar. Would be cool for holidays and such, but does it also have potential to be used to broadly map your life along a time-line? Would be cool if you could pop in all the key dates from your life and have it generate a cool looking time line from that. Kinda like a family tree but with events - if you see what I mean?