Weekendr Review

Overview from Weekendr

Weekendr offers the following overview on their web site (http://www.weekendr.com):

Use weekendr to plan weekend activities with your buddies and share them with the world to make new friends.

Note: You can now read an interview with the creator of Weekendr

First Impressions

The idea is that you can either see what your friends are doing this weekend or you can add your own events and have your friends check your events.

Signup Process

Signup is easy, just username/password and confirmation of e-mail address.

Service Usability

From what I can tell from using Weekendr for a few days, the team really thought about how to create this site. It appears very well put together with the features that friends need to communicate with each other. You can e-mail friends and block people and then create a blog of your choosing. You can skin your site to match your mood or season/holiday. Lots of tagging abilities make finding your friends and activities easy. Overall Weekendr is a fun site and could work – see my second concern below for my only fear for survival of Weekendr.

What would I like to see added to Weekendr/My Concerns

• It appears they have about 300 or so members so far which is great considering they launched a week before this review. Will they be able to continue to grow once the press buzz slows? This type of site requires lots of traffic to work.
• Perhaps they could add a way to be notified as my friends post events – that might help with the stickyness of the site.
• If they are a German company – why is there no German version? Bitte?

Final comments

I like Weekendr. It is well designed and the team has considered the mainstream audience and designed it appropriately. It has a lot of cool Web 2.0 bells and whistles but still remains true to the idea of sharing weekend plans. So is it only for weekend activities or for during the week too? :)

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