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651 points openchampagne | 2 comments | 04 Feb 25 16:21 UTC | HN request time: 1.203s | source
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happyopossum ◴[04 Feb 25 21:12 UTC] No.42938792[source]▶
My wife is in a position (board chair for a co-op) that results in her sending out a lot of invites to events. Evite has kinda been the go-to in her social/co-op group for ages, but man it suuuuuuucks these days. Ads everywhere, annoying patterns, and lacks a bunch of nice features that this seems to have.

Very happy to see this

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nostromo ◴[04 Feb 25 21:57 UTC] No.42939482[source]▶
I organize a lot of events for a rugby team, and our events are now all on Partiful.

Maybe it'll go downhill like Evite and Facebook Events - but for now it's quite good.

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svnt ◴[04 Feb 25 22:02 UTC] No.42939561[source]▶
How is it funded? That is your answer.
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mjamesaustin ◴[04 Feb 25 22:10 UTC] No.42939684[source]▶
Currently Partiful doesn't generate revenue, which is evidence for its quality. As soon as the purse strings get attached, it'll be time to get out. But for now, it's an excellent service.
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ryandrake ◴[04 Feb 25 23:32 UTC] No.42940852[source]▶
This tracks so well as an indicator, with many other products. As soon as the company starts making money, their product is going to become awful and it's time to find an alternative. Why can't tech escape this cycle?
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1. maeil ◴[05 Feb 25 05:07 UTC] No.42944055[source]▶
The key here is VC-backed. The enshittification rate of bootstrapped products (especially solo or small team) is magnitudes lower. Ironic thing to say while on YC's message board, but there you have it.

Nowadays when I'm looking for a new software product or service with a good number of options, first thing I do is check how they're funded.

Funny thing is that teams are catching on to this! Very recently I've seen two products have a separate "Are you VC backed?" heading in their landing FAQ (both answered with "no"). I can see this becoming a trend - if I were to create a product, I'd do the same.

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2. gioazzi ◴[06 Feb 25 19:27 UTC] No.42965624[source]▶
Nice one, I'll add it to our Apple Invites, open source competitor readme: http://github.com/gruprsvp/grup