bits and pieces of my life.
Wedding invitation cards are so un-memorable and passe – so when it came time for me to plan my own wedding, i decided to scour the web for a web app that’ll do it right.
Googling ultimately brought me to mypunchbowl.com, a “party” planning site that was just launched early this year. On first impression, it looks pretty minimalistic, to the point of almost betraying it’s Web2.0 features.
Planning an event is simple – tell it the place, date and time. You can also upload an image or search flickr for one. Once that’s done, you do invitations for your events, and all it really requires is an email list. You can then send out the invitation and manage the invites. The site allows you to further control important details like the email content, “reply before” dates, max add. invites and most useful, whether the invitation list is kept private.
As i’m writing this themes are being added and it’s UI is being refined. It’s so simple to use i think i found my app.
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Alex
April 11th, 2007 at 10:53 am
Hey,
Although you found punchbowl simple and qucik to fill out, I would like to offer you an even simpler solution. Check our our site Planypus (http://planyp.us) we are a wiki-evite hybrid and a wiki for your social life. Making a party takes litteraly 10seconds and 1 page with 3-4 fields unlike punchbowl’s maze of pages and screens. You can add whatever media you would want to our planspace- be it youtube, music, photos, etc. Also your friends/invitees don’t even have t sign up to use it and will get emails, text msges, or rss feeds- the choice is theirs. On top of all that we focus on small activities as well and make it really easy to talk to one another. We feel that most outings are planning together so anyone can be organizer and can add times and places and vote and throw in their 2 cents. Hope you check us out.
Cheers!
cglow
April 11th, 2007 at 10:09 pm
just to let you know i’ve tried it out. i feel that mypunchbowl.com is currently more suited for simple pre-planned invites and planyp.us for it’s collaborativeness.
Something i like with mypunchbowl is the fact that there is an invitation workflow, and it’s bare essentials necessary to get people to decide. period. Anything more is probably overkill for any non-techies out there who might not even know what a wiki is, what more collaborate. My only wish for them is that they stick to a core set of features from a usability standpoint as they continue to improve.
Either ways both sites will be useful to many people in the long run, and the decision of which to use is swayed to their way of doing things.