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Mobaganda - Propaganda For Your Friends

http://www.mobaganda.com

Recently launched Mobaganda, and have been featured on TechCrunch, Lifehacker, etc... Just found out it will be included in TIME's 50 best sites of 2008.

Have the opportunity to take on some VC money to build it out a bit, a few hundred thousand, but am not sure if I should or not.

Thoughts? How would you monetize assuming great traction and viral growth?

-Stirman www.stirman.net

( 12 comments | 11 points | on HN )
Re:Mobaganda - Propaganda For Your Friends by yelsgib on Friday June 06, 2008 @03:55AM (#210688)
What stage of release is this in? Are there any significant changes coming up?

In particular, I don't see any attempt to prevent spam. I'm not even talking about purely bot-generated spam - I mean, I just submitted that "Ghandi Christ" (email [email protected]) will not be coming to the following event:

http://mobaganda.com/rev2party

Which I found on google.

I don't really know/see how you can fix this problem. As I noted, captchas won't work.

On a completely unrelated note, I also really long for search and the ability to make an event "searchable/unsearchable".

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THAT BEING SAID, I think this is a really wonderful idea. If you can get it to "work" without sacrificing any simplicity I will definitely be using this.

Anyway, these are some random guy's first impressions. Good luck, yo!

Re:Mobaganda - Propaganda For Your Friends by stirman on Friday June 06, 2008 @09:41AM (#210817)
I realize this as a potential problem.. but then again, who would look for random events and rsvp to them... besides the slew of Techcrunch commenters that spammed the event mentioned in the TC article with javascript hacks :) (which are now being detected and disabled)

Bot spam is a different creature, and I have some measures to prevent against it, with more coming soon.

I wonder if there's a way to not let Google index it? Something about the robots file maybe?

Re:Mobaganda - Propaganda For Your Friends by sjh on Thursday June 05, 2008 @10:12PM (#210550)
The design, the simplicity of use and the philosophy (no registration/login/etc.) are all spot on.
Re:Mobaganda - Propaganda For Your Friends by stirman on Thursday June 05, 2008 @08:05PM (#210483)
Oops, should have left the url out of the submission, meant for discussion... my apologies.
Re:Mobaganda - Propaganda For Your Friends by evdawg on Thursday June 05, 2008 @09:05PM (#210518)
sup stirman!

i take back what i said about mobaganda at YH btw... it was a stupid, uneducated first impression, without actually exploring or using the service.

Re:Mobaganda - Propaganda For Your Friends by stirman on Thursday June 05, 2008 @09:12PM (#210526)
Thanks evdawg, no need to take it back... I bet many people shared your initial impression. Criticism help me grow these things :)
Re:Mobaganda - Propaganda For Your Friends by jamesbritt on Thursday June 05, 2008 @11:07PM (#210576)
Certainly easy. What if I screw up the event date? Didn't see a way to correct or delete.
Re:Mobaganda - Propaganda For Your Friends by auston on Thursday June 05, 2008 @08:50PM (#210500)
Good stuff. Google endorsed.
Re:Mobaganda - Propaganda For Your Friends by morbidkk on Friday June 06, 2008 @05:30AM (#210723)
purpletrail.com is way way better than this. Its problem is it is based in India. Not many people know this application
Re:Mobaganda - Propaganda For Your Friends by stirman on Friday June 06, 2008 @09:43AM (#210818)
Mobaganda is, by design, like an anti-purpletrail :) For those that don't need or want the complexity and extra features.
Re:Mobaganda - Propaganda For Your Friends by dougp on Thursday June 05, 2008 @10:05PM (#210546)
I love the looks. Especially the font
Re:Mobaganda - Propaganda For Your Friends by spencermiles on Friday June 06, 2008 @02:30AM (#210652)
good work stirman!