Comments on: What Ever Happened to Evite?

By: Matthew John

Matthew John — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:11:40 +0000

Hey Mark,

I also believed Evite faded into relative obscurity but almost directly after reading your post I saw an ad banner for Evite on dictionary.com.

Strange coincidence.

By: Jerry Hung

Jerry Hung — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:33:51 +0000

I like evites from time to time, but for a closer smaller group we just use Google Invite (aka Google Calendar)

for company, it’s mostly Outlook

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:09:58 +0000

Facebook shares more photo’s than Flickr, and dwarfs invitation to events relative to Evites peak. Those 2 functions are just part of the social graph - and very tough to make it as standalone ventures today. You really have to go above and beyond.. re: Tungle.. will check out Pingg

By: Mark Evans

Mark Evans — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:03:32 +0000

Scott,

I guess that’s the downside of having a mature business - no one thinks you’re sexy anymore.

Mark

By: Scott Goldblatt

Scott Goldblatt — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:02:11 +0000

Mark - I think that we can all agree that Evite is now a mature product. With that idea in mind, they are simply not innovating like some of their up and coming competitors like Eventbrite, MyPunchBowl and Upcoming.org.

While each of these services provides their own unique offerings, they all do pretty much the same thing. But, in our industry and the era of “what is shiny and new gets the most attention,” Evite has dropped off the list of “cool.”

With that said, my wife and our neighborhood use Evite often - it still works exactly as intended and that counts for something.

By: Agoracom

Agoracom — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:56:37 +0000

Mark, as an FYI, you should also know a few Canadians (In New York) have started an Evite competitor at http://www.Pingg.com

Regards,
George

By: Jim Courtney

Jim Courtney — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:31:50 +0000

So the success you are showing for Evite must be an omen for Skype. Evite’s co-founder Josh Silverman recently took over as President of Skype (after serving in a couple of other capacities at eBay, including CEO of shopping.com. Having recently interviewed Josh, I would say his Evite experience is contributing to his current re-organization of Skype.

And Evite was a major forum for organizing my high school’s 50th anniversary last year.