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Apple Invites

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651 points openchampagne | 1 comments | 04 Feb 25 16:21 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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cleverwebble ◴[04 Feb 25 16:48 UTC] No.42934914[source]▶
I'm in my mid-thirties and most of my friends have ditched Facebook. I didn't really realize this until when I used it to create an event for a house party... I was somewhat surprised that only 2 people out of 15 even saw it. I ended up resorting to good old text message and that worked, but it was tedious. Not sure how popular this will become, but having a social-media-less event invite/broadcasting system would be nice, and having one that most people with an iPhone have access to covers much of my friend base
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ninininino ◴[04 Feb 25 16:55 UTC] No.42935080[source]▶
For people in their early 20s to mid 30s in the NYC area, I'm starting to see mass adoption of an app called Partiful for managing social invites and events, it has a lot of nice features for sending invites, RSVP management, sending text blasts out to attendees (you can schedule reminders the day before or whatever).
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Reason077 ◴[04 Feb 25 20:59 UTC] No.42938572[source]▶
In fact, Apple Invites appears to be a direct response to the popularity of Partiful.
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1. RRL ◴[04 Feb 25 22:07 UTC] No.42939625[source]▶
Yeah, this is straight up f.lux 2.0 where Apple saw an idea take off, and unlike 'Nightshift' where they connected it to their new 'Health' product to stimulate Apple Watch purchases, they connected Apple Invites to social behaviors to stimulate iMessage and iCloud adoption and revenues.