Soon

Hey team! A few friends and I have been working on this project for a little while. Excited to get some people playing around with it. Soon is a place to share and find what's happening, wherever and whenever it may be. With more events than ever, both IRL and digital, Soon makes sure you and your friends never miss something awesome. Tired of missing that sale, live stream, AMA, pre-order, show premiere, birthday party, or happy hour? Often all we want is a simple nudge letting us know an event is starting. Credit where credit is due, the inspiration here came from @benrbn and the Meerkat product. I loved the way they thought about scheduling live streams, and wanted to expand that experience to a variety of other content types. P.S. If you'll be heading to Southby this weekend, be sure to follow the Best of SXSW account and subscribe to some of the events there!

Smart idea for a few reasons: 1. Event discovery isn't mediocre at best 2. Kids don't use calendars 3. Events are fragmented across many platforms (Facebook, Eventbrite, Splash, etc.) This will be super useful at SXSW.

I got an early look at this app and its been rad to see all the fresh product decisions the team made. way to go guys

Very excited to check this out @mazzeo! Good luck at SXSW. And the standard question—when do the Android folks stop missing out on the best events? 😉

@mazzo: Slick app, especially for just an experiment! For some reason, I was expecting to see events in closer proximity to me, rather than all over the world. Is there a location feature I missed?

The ultimate question in my view, is this a feature or a stand alone product? I always felt this problem was big enough and worth solving, but I know dozens of companies and entrepreneurs (Yours truly being one) who have failed. I feel one of the biggest hurdles (And there are many) is creating a community of users in such a broad public facing application. The trend over the past several years is for more privacy and smaller networks where people feel comfortable sharing and communicating with one another.

Product video is confusing and borderline useless as it fails to achieve its intended goal. That goal is telling me what the hell your app does. It could have used a voice over or text highlighting features instead of stock music. I had to look at the images to somewhat figure it out. There is also no onscreen touch indicator telling me what you are tapping in the video. I couldn'tfollow what was going on. Might want to go back to the drawing board on that one. 😖