Somebody asked recently what I meant when I said lots of startups make things for technically-inclined twenty-something males. I meant that lots of startups make things like this. If your first thought after "I kind of want to go out to dinner on Thursday." is "I wonder if a site exists that can broadcast this to my social networks yet?", you are solidly in the demographic most B2C startups seem to care about.<p>There are also people who, when they think "I want to go out to dinner on Thursday.", follow it up with "Naturally, I will bring my husband and children." These people do <i>not</i> have an endless stream of Silicon Valley companies trying to satisfy their every whim. That is a pity, or opportunity, depending on how you look at it.
Plancast needs support for uncertainty. I might be going to this place sometime next week but I'm not sure yet. Perhaps if a friend also says they're going then I'll be more certain.<p>Similar to upcoming.org's interested vs attending.
More feedback:<p>- Really lovely site. Lots of great touches. I typed that I will be going to Bar Wotever (actually the name of a night, not a place) tonight and it figured out where the venue is automatically.<p>- Could the little red bars next to each time window (today, next week etc.) give some idea of futureness? e.g. green for today, yellow for this week, red for further away in time.<p>- Can I hide a friend's plan?<p>- If I'm on the Discover Friends page, the data does not refresh when I switch between the Twitter/Facebook/Email tags. To do that, I must refresh the whole page in my browser.
whoa. that signup was extremely frictionless with both twitter and facebook. i already found friends and plans i share with them without doing anything really. i'm impressed.
Wait, wait... A few hours ago I submitted a link about Sponty and how they can compete with Foursquare. (<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=969221" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=969221</a>).<p>It's kind funny how the techcrunch article gets instantly lots of votes, and link to random blogger gets ignored.<p>Anyway, Sponty also offers a social calendar, where you can broadcast your intentions, and also have feeds for different events.
Very impressed by the date handling. I entered Thursday to Saturday and it figured out what I meant.<p>However, I can't make it understand ranges further in the future. For example, I'm going to All Tomorrow's Parties from 11th Dec to 13th Dec and I can't make Plancast understand that.
I really like the idea, but the feature mentioned at the end of the post to allow limiting plans to certain friends is a must have - many of my plans I won't want the whole world to know about.