The social invite/event party is getting crowded. There’s Evite, Eventful, Upcoming, Windows Live Events, Zvents, Socializr, MyPunchbowl, Skobee, Renkoo, MadeIt, and ImThere, not to mention Facebook. Now, IPartee is trying to squeeze into the room. The Toronto-based startup, which was in the TechCrunch40 Demo Pit, emerged from private beta today. It is now open to anyone who wants to create a social network around concerts, clubbing, or other events. You can create a profile for yourself, for an event, or for a venue.
Some of IPartee’s features include a social network, polls, personal calendars, event and venue calendars, groups, event photos, and event reviews. IPartee does a decent job at tying all of these things together. The ability to sell tickets through the site will come soon. People like to socialize around events, and the Web makes it easier to plan, promote, and find events. What IPartee needs, though, is a Facebook app and an OpenSocial app because nobody wants to recreate their social network just to do one thing.
Here is a group page for Montreal Indie Music:
Here is a 19-year-old’s profile page:
Skobee’s effectively in the deadpool. What’s also hilarious is NO ONE of relevance uses these stupid things. But what people do use is EventBrite. No one has gunned for making payments easier and better and then branching offer into the other features such as social networking. Meh.
I believe this is one more which was profiled by TC earlier..
http://www.skobee.com/
Thanks, Nag
Looks good. Best of luck!
iPartee like it’s 1999. Sorry can’t help it.
Good luck from a fellow DemoPit company!
Going.com is the category killer here. Not sure why it always gets missed even though TC has featured it.
Actually, zoji.com is the best of the bunch
Evite caters to a general audience as opposed to iPartee which seems to target the same audience as Going, Clubvibes, Involver, MingleNow, and most of the above.
Evite, Eventful, and Zvents clearly target more than the club going audience.
Good luck to iPartee.
I hope their biz plan revolves around Facebook and Open Social. Otherwise this is a dud!
I question a company’s creativity if they have to use ‘i’. Leave the ‘i’s to Apple. Make up a word like everyone else.
I think the i is meant to be uppercase as in I Partee
Hehe, I love how tc consistently leaves out Planypus (disclosure: I’m the CEO) when mentioning competitors in the event planning space but continues to mention long-dead Skobee. So much for good ol’ journalistic research. But it’s ok, we’ve gotten over it. No love from the crunch…that’s cool.
Besides, we’re doing something more interesting and relevant than competing with Evite. But that’s in stealth mode right now. But I digress.
@12: Planypus is a pretty stupid ass name. Not as bad as iPartee, but that is faint praise at best.
@The Hater.
Thanks! we like it too.
This stupid crunchbase shit is out of control, takes up a whole page. This just emphasizes how dumb these widgets are.
I am surprise you did not mention French website http://www.uneinvitation.com or German website http://www.amiando.de
both of them having actual revenues.
It is indeed a croweded marketplace and few of them have an actual business plan…
Wow, this is totally overshadowing today’s launch of Crackr.com….
Both are promising I’d say…
all of these guys are completely missing the boat when it comes to their biz model. incredible
I question their biz model with that stupid “me too” name. The name is part of the biz model Joey.
looks dumb.
Chaz going is just the next in line to the social events play that mirrors friendster, myspace, facebook…. I’d like to see a comparison of the event sites doesn’t group them on the context of events. That’s like comparing Google, Yahoo, and Facebook because they are all major portals to the web. iPartee is interesting but the founder made a stupid mistake by creating that biased and incomplete comparison (what about comprehensiveness, quality of results or relevance?); still, it is interesting because it is different: Perhaps the new solution to managing events. That isn’t the same as the eventful, going, upcoming social battle (are they still “upcoming”?? ha) nor zvents local search engine.
tyler, its obvious that these founders have no experience actually organizing events. if they did, they would see the answer is staring them in the face
@Jason:
Thanks for your comment. My table was intended to compare features that relate specifically to Planning, Pulishing, Promotion and Monetization — this probably reflects the potential of each company’s product more than anything else. Although I do mention on my blog that it’s by no means a conclusive comparison, I think I should make it more clear to readers. I’ll update the post soon to weigh in on that — for example, Going has high quality content since they are only open to five cities, but at the same time that makes them somewhat irrelevant.
Our goal is to successfully address all the needs of event management for industry, artists, and individuals. The table includes features we feel are required to accomplish that.
If you have any more recommendations, feel free to contact me.
Thanks,
Christopher Golda
Founder, IPartee
P.S. RE: haters: It’s “IPartee”, not “iPartee”
the founders have no experience in setting this up
yet another evite site…
@23
No, it’s ipartee.
Look at your logo!!