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Imagine it’s Friday afternoon and it’s up to you to plan the night. What do you do? Research on Yelp? Scan upcoming Facebook events? Grab a New York Mag or fire up Flavorpill? What if there was a sweet service to suggest social itineraries for you in the same way Wanderfly suggests travel plans? There is! And it’s aptly called Weotta, a San Francisco based startup...Read More
Looking for something to do this weekend without having to sift through your newspaper or scour the web for a fun event? Weotta, a new startup launching today at TechCrunch Disrupt, is looking to help. The service offers a very easy 3-step process for making a plan: first, tell it what kind of outing you’re embarking on. Next, pick the mood...Read More
Weotta is throwing its hat into the local recommendation market. It builds an entire itinerary for the night based on your personal interests and simple information you feed into the website. If you enter in plans for a date with a classy vibe, Weotta will take what it knows about you and create possible itineraries like a dinner, movie and drinks...Read More
Meet Weotta, a real-time itinerary builder for people who want a night out but don't want to go through the fuss of researching bars, restaurants, and events. To that end, the service offers a 3-step process: pick the type of outing you want (ie. Business, Dating, Family, Solo), the mood, and then hit "Generate." Weotta bases...Read More
Luckily I got my invitation to join Weotta (say it out loud) yesterday and was happy by how easy it was to navigate and how simple it was to get recommendations for things to do. You just pick what type of crowd your going with (date, business, solo, etc.) and what the vibe is (hip, casual, classy, etc.) and BOOM...Read More
NEW YORK (May 23, 2011) – Weotta, Inc. (www.weotta.com) unveiled its new occasion search engine today in front of more than 2,000 technology innovators and investors at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York. The San Francisco-based startup went live with its website designed to simplify users’ social lives by finding and organizing occasions relevant to them. Weotta is available for New York City and San Francisco, with more cities to follow in coming months.
“Weotta solves the problem of what to do tonight and takes the hassle out of planning it,” said CEO and co-founder Grant Wernick. “It's like having your own personal concierge. It’s the only product designed around the way people actually plan their social lives.” Weotta generates relevant itineraries -- all in a matter of seconds. All users have to do is tell Weotta what kind of occasion they are up for based on their companions and mood. Then it scours the web for events and places. Classifys them. Ranks them. And, on the fly, assembles them into great itineraries that fit their needs.
“It’s like Pandora© for your social life,” said Chief Technology Officer and co-founder Jacob Perkins, who helped design and develop the algorithms that drive Weotta. “Because our system is driven by algorithms and never curated, it’s fast, current and built to scale quickly.” Users can easily collaborate with friends on suggested plans. Once finalized, Weotta helps users invite friends via Facebook and book reservations through sites including OpenTable and Ticketmaster. Filters allow users to quickly narrow results to the most relevant content, and the system learns a user’s preferences over time.
Weotta has been in development since August 2010. Through hundreds of interviews, the team at Weotta learned that people tend to begin planning social events with an idea of what they want to do -- a romantic date, a casual night out with friends in a nearby neighborhood, or a favorite band that’s in town -- and seek fresh, new and interesting recommendations to build out a complete plan. People also said they wanted an easier way to collaborate with friends on ideas and invite others once plans are made. Weotta was one of 30 companies selected from over a thousand fledgling startups to launch on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt New York.
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