Sqoot Wants to Help Make Social Planning Fun
The growth of social media has provided a plethora of tools that can help us organize our lives in new and interesting ways, which is exactly what Philadelphia based start-up Sqoot is hoping to achieve with its venture to get users to write about their dream activities in the form of social wish lists.
Sqoot asks it users to finish the sentence “I want to…”, using their answers to help populate personal activity lists which are then broadcast across that persons Twitter and Facebook accounts, to help let existing friends know about their desire to do whatever it is they want to do. Sqoot wish lists are public and can be seen by any other member of the site, who can then choose to copy the idea into their own lists and leave comments on actives they have a shared interest in.
The plan is that as people complete enough activities via the site they will be rewarded with some kind of Foursquareesque style achievement system, as a way to help encourage users to actually follow through on their wish lists. Activities will stay in members ques until they have been completed. When particularly high clusters of similar activity wishes are spotted on the network Sqoot are planning on allowing business owners to offer users highly targeted deals, to give people a real incentive to go offline and actually be social.
As the site takes off it could provide a really great way for uses to meet new like minded people to try out activities with, though of course there are safeguards built in so that not just anyone can join in with your plans. All members can comment or copy plans on other members lists, but only approved friends (matched via Facebook and Twitter) can actually flag themselves as wanting to meet up for an activity.
Sqoot is currently in early beta testing, being backed by DeamIt Ventures, a pre-seed venture firm who will be helping the site grow over the coming months.
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