Yan, Troutgirl, I applaud both your efforts in offering Evite some much needed competition. Please don’t confuse my interest and comments as any sort of comment on your business or its prospects. I’m really only interested in things related to Clientside technologies and developments. Evite’s interface works pretty well, but could use some serious work, and I view the work of upstarts like yourselves as the kind of thing that moves everyone forward.

CNET, where I work, has the same issue; we have revenue models in place that prevent us from moving quickly into things like ajax, but this needs to change. When I see companies challenging an entrenched veteran by offering a more pleasant user experience, I see the kind of competition that CNET needs to consider, too.

Good luck to both of you!

Planypus actually allows any guest to add locations and times to vote on so it doesn’t restrict this only to the ‘organizer’. In fact we don’t have a traditional notion of an organizer since anyone in the group can become one or abandon their duties at any time. That’s how planning works in real life, so that’s how we’ve modeled it.

I certainly hope we differ from Evite in the UI too though. :-) Thanks for the mention!