Prohmote

Phase 2 for Prohmote

I have been working on some ideas for making Prohmote more social and interactive.  Looking at the usage logs and the navigation patterns, it seems more people than not come to Prohmote, try it out and create an event then leave.  Also a majority of the confirmation emails bounce back so it leads me to believe most of the things within Prohmote currently seem novelty.

Since I am confined to the current limitation of the Google App Engine, and it still being a non-released beta product — there is only so much I can push into the application.  Currently there is still no roadmap to what pricing levels will be, in addition to all the other usage quotas.  So it is difficult to guage how much efficiency can be integrated into Prohmote.

With that said, here are some of the ideas I have been working on for the next release of Prohmote which should go live within a couple weeks.  Hopefully these features can allow users to more efficiently use Prohmote and actually do more promoting with their events.  I have a brief overview of what has already been wrapped into the application as of today.

Phase 1 (Current)

• Standard event creation with typical event fields
• No login required
• Usage of jQuery API for field validation, date picking, et cetera
• Unique URL in the form of prohmote.com/6hfg8f
• Can assign an event to a category for public categories listing
• Can make an event private so it does not appear in public categories listing
• Users can confirm a reservation (yes/no) for each event, with a comment and additional guests
• RSS 2.0 feed for reservations
• Public event categories listing area

Phase 2

• Ability to provide email addresses for users you wish to promote the event to by email
• Integration with Facebook
• Print-friendly reservations page for easy on-the-fly printing
• Event and Reservation API (Create/View)
• XML and JSON support
• Additional feed support for Atom

There is more to come but this is an idea of what I have in mind for the next phase.  As you can see if focuses more on the event promotion side of things rather than the creation of the event itself.