Dance Weekend

I was at a party several months ago with some dancer friends and the topic of Lindy Weekend came up.  (I didn’t bring it up, I swear!)  One of the dancers who’d never heard of it asked me what it was…and I really didn’t have a good answer.  Sure, I had plenty that I could say but I wasn’t sure whether to tell her all of the neat things I wanted it to do or manage expectations and just mention the rather boring things it actually did.

Now mind you, none of it is boring to me because I wrote it and am intimately familiar with all of the little widgets and assorted behind-the-scenes magic that all comes together to make the app work.  And well, geek that I am, that’s sort of “my thing”.  But to an outsider, my users and friends who want a tool to help them get the most out of their dance opportunities, it just looked like yet another list of events on a webpage somewhere.  Big deal.

But rest assured, my plans for the Dance Weekend App are much grander than a simple static calendar of events and I want to share some of ideas with you now:

• Dance with your friends – OK, this one’s pretty obvious.  In addition to a list of events, Dance Weekend will alow you to share and see which dance events you and your friends are planning on attending.
• Find and share housing – Dance Weekend is going to allow hosts and guests to take the reigns of their own housing arrangements.  Hosts will be able to post availability in their homes and share that info with all attendees or just their friends.  For hotel events, dancers will be able to arrange room-shares with other dancers.
• Buy and sell passes – It’s the worst when you’ve paid for a pass and suddenly find out you can’t attend shortly before the event.  Then it’s a mad scramble to try and find a buyer.  The sad thing is there are always last-minute attendees who would love to get a little discount on a pass before paying the “gotcha!” at-the-door price.  If only there were a way to bring these people together in one place.  Enter..(wait for it…)  Dance Weekend.

So that’s just a taste of what I’ve got in store for you all.  There’s even more cool stuff I want to do but dare not mention lest you all think I’ve lost it.

I’m having a blast re-writing the Facebok App and am improving it all the time so keep checking it out.  pretty soon you’ll be telling everyone how awesome it is.

See you on the dance-floor!