Dance Weekend

Oh, man, I’m really getting excited!  Today I hammered out the code for listing a pass for sale on DanceWeekend and I’m really excited because the more I worked on it, the more I realized that this is actually going to help people sell their passes!  In fact, although I’m a bit partial, I really think DanceWeekend is going to be THE way place turn to to sell their passes.  Why’s that?  I’m glad you asked, so let me break it down for you.

When a user lists their pass for an event up for sale on DanceWeekend, the app can automatically scan the list of Facebook users who’ve indicated an interest in the event by RSVP’ing as “attending” or “maybe”.  Of those people, DanceWeekend can choose to send notifications directly to a limited number of those people (currently 20) per day that your pass is available for sale, whether they’re FB friends with you or not!  So unlike just posting a status message, which only your FB friends can see, that you’re looking to sell your pass, this allows DanceWeekend to directly reach out to people who aren’t even in your network but are interested in attending the event.

So far, the notification I’ve settled on is, “Hi, I’m selling my pass to {Event_name} for {asking_price}.  Please message me if you’d like to buy it or know someone who might. Thanks!”

I’ve gotten everything working up to that point, including sending the notifications, but there are more plumbing bits to workout before I roll it out, such as modiying the price, listing all the for_sale passes for an event, etc.  But I think this is going to be awesome and I’m bangin’ away to get it finished by the end of the weekend.

Stay tuned!