Leo & Anna: Two user stories

How do EventScouts help ordinary users around the world?

Leo wakes up and on his commute to work, he listens to the radio about an art exhibition in his neighborhood - but it’s closing today. It was a 3-month exhibition. At work, his colleague brags about a Japanese restaurant. Leo loves Japanese food. He asks where it is but it’s gone. It was a pop-up and it closed yesterday, his colleague tells him. Didn’t you see it? It was all over Instagram

At lunch, he compliments his friend’s suit. It had a 75% discount as part of the store’s anniversary. Subscribe to every mall’s newsletter, that’s the key. Back at home, he and his partner are trying to decide where to go for the evening. Something different for once, the partner says, but they end up going to the same pub because they forgot about their friend’s recommendation. Anna wakes up and on her commute to work, she scrolls through the newspapers on her smartphone and learns that the national football team was scheduled to play a match in their home stadium. However, she failed to buy tickets early and will watch the game on TV.

After arriving at her WeWork office, she realized that there was a seminar given by top female entrepreneurs. She received an email reminder but it somehow got lost between the other emails. In the afternoon, she gets a notification from her finance app that one of her stock picks just released their quarterly results, but she hadn’t saved this information and has now missed taking action early. In the afternoon, she learned that there was a big crypto conference that happened last weekend that her Twitter community is now talking about. She, most likely, could not have attended anyways but would have still liked to know it was going to happen. EventScouts: Leo and Anna's Solution

Our vision is to build a platform that functions as a ‘Second Brain’ for Leo and Anna. Our brain mainly helps us remember things that we once saw and learned. It does so by saving all relevant information and then notifying us either occasionally or once we actually need it. However, we also know about the limitations of our brain, such as that it can’t collect and remember all relevant information forever.

Today, data for various events and activities are on many different platforms and apps. In the first step, we need to bring them to a single universal database, the blockchain, so people can save it all in one place in an open environment. Ultimately, our goal is to provide the users with the easiest way to keep a great overview of all ‘things that happen’ and ‘things to do’. In the second phase, we will build additional features around the overview.

We found that user-generated lists that people can easily save and subscribe to, and use as powerful dynamic libraries specifically for events and activities, are a simple yet powerful tool for people to collect all relevant information in one place. In combination with smart notification features and novel ways to discover new content, EventScouts could come very close to our vision of a second brain.