Why Activities & Events Belong Together

This page tries to explain why we find it so important to bring activities & events together to the same platform.

A person planning his weekend activities at its core is looking for ‘things to do’ or ‘things that happen’. He doesn’t mind if it is an event or an activity since both are equally important options for the underlying problem to find ‘things to do’.

The person could go out of his house and experience something interesting in town, or alternatively he could stay at home, watch live sports on tv, or join the live stream of his favorite Esports tournament in Asia. To provide the user with a platform that offers the full overview of ‘things to do’ and ‘things that happen’ it is essential to bring activities & events together on the same platform. This can only be achieved by focussing on the long-tail of user generated content.

Activities & events belong on the same platform - on the same database - regardless of what it is, where it is and how popular it is for other people. Our main goal is to build the framework and a set of features that support people to follow their niche interests and the tastemakers in their respective communities.

Today, activities & events are on thousands of different platforms.The data about popular sport matches are on very different apps, websites, in newspapers and widely spreaded across social media. Music events, on the other hand, are again on very different websites, apps and in facebook groups. Local happenings are usually published on local niche websites and the associated social media channels, while restaurants and travel related activities are on TripAdvisor, GetYourGuide and literally millions of blogs and websites.