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I don’t know about you, but countless times I’ve wanted to go out and have fun, but I wasn’t aware of any good plans around me that I would like to join. How is it possible that in today’s day and age, with such constant information overload, a geek like me can’t find a good plan on a Saturday night? Enter Fiestastic.

I had the idea for Fiestastic about a couple of weeks ago. The whole first week went into thinking and researching Facebook’s API to find out if what I had in mind was doable. After tweaking my idea a bit, it turned out it could be done, so I started developing a prototype right away. Some people will think I should spend some time looking for validation of my business idea before jumping into development, but to be honest, I would love to have and use something like what I’m building, and I have some friends in the same situation. So worst case scenario, I would have spent a couple of weeks building a really useful tool for myself :-)

What is Fiestastic, exactly?

Fiestastic helps you discover things to do that your friends will be attending and that probably, you didn’t know about.

Here’s how it works. You log in with your Facebook account, and it gathers your and your friends’ events and displays them back to you in a cool map of your city. Note that most of these events you probably aren’t invited to, only some of your friends, so you haven’t received any Facebook invitation about it. Of course, private events won’t be displayed unless you’ve been invited.

You’ll see only events happening in the next 24 hours, that at least one of your friends is attending, and centered around your current location (as stated in your Facebook profile).

I’ve set myself a private beta launch date of Thursday June 23rd. On this day I’ll invite some of my friends to try the app and give me their feedback. If you’re interested in trying out the app while it’s in private beta, drop me a line to manuel@fiestastic.com. 

More details and screenshots coming up soon :-)