Guestlist is a next-wave event registration service. One that focuses on usability and design, and not a phonebook-sized feature list. It lets you publish beautiful looking event pages, sell tickets online, and manage your attendees with ease.
How do you find the usability? Is it fast, slow, irritating?
Do you think it has a useful set of features, and if not, what would you add?
If you're an event organizer, would you use Guestlist to manage your registrations online? Why, why not?
Hey Brian,
Thanks for writing such detailed feedback about Guestlist.
That's a helpful comment about the TOS checkbox. I think that's the last thing we want turning people away on signup, so I think we'll look into making it clearer.
I believe a lot of the graphical issues you see browsing the tour page are caused by Launchly's toolbar up top - there's some kind of style conflict. If you try browsing the site without the toolbar, it looks fine. I'd be glad to help debug this with you.
You're right that this space has a lot of competitors. We're trying to distinguish ourselves by not doing too much. Our focus is a pleasant user experience, easy to design (and pretty) event pages, and maybe a couple clever features down the road.
Great comments. I think you're doing a fabulous job of creating a pleasant user experience and keeping the tools simple to use. I hope that is enough!
You are correct that there appears to be some conflict between the launchly bar and your page. I have not noticed that on any other sites yet so it is certainly something I will look into ASAP. Thank you for pointing that out.
On a side note, I have considered adding a checkbox to the launch form to allow per-launch disabling of the launch toolbar. What do you think? I worry that it might impede the collection of feedback a although changing tabs is not much more difficult than having the feedback overlay.
*Update: I have found the culprit. I am setting a background color on the parent page's body element and your CSS specifies a background image with transparent for the bgcolor so apparently my bgcolor was bleeding through. I have made a change so that my page w/the toolbar on it will not specify any background information which fixes the problem it causes for your site locally. Will upload the change ASAP. Sorry for that.
Guestlist is a featured launch! http://blog.launchly.com/2009/07/guestlist-handles-all-your-event-registration-needs/
I love it when I see a nice looking site, and this is definitely in that list. Great landing page! I love the color palette and organization. Site is easy to understand for sure!
So I just created an account and I'm so excited for you guys. This site just freaking rocks! I love the UI, love the edit tags, love the ... everything.
I don't know what suggestion I have for you. I guess the only thing I'd suggest is it would be nice if you could use OpenID so I don't have to create a new account. I would definitely use this site if I was an event organizer. What is your marketing plan?
Great site...love it!
Great niche. Great homepage. What separates this from anyvite? I notice anyvite offers integration with google calendar (which is huge). I'd suggest integrating this somehow and/or offering some type of outlook plugin? Do you plan to offer some type of facebook app? Right now facebook events does have 'guest list' management to an extent, but you have nice features!
The site seemed plenty fast enough while I was using it. Overall it's very attractive and intuitive. On the signup form I did get tripped up by the TOS checkbox though. It looked, to me, like it was already checked and disabled so I did not bother checking it when I submitted the form. It then (correctly) complained that I hadn't accepted the TOS so I had to check it at that point to register. Might annoy some people so maybe consider just leaving the checkbox blank instead of being "fancy".
The other thing I noticed immediately was that the site seems to not be fully tested in FF 3.5 on Mac OSX. Some of the page elements didn't look right. Specifically in the feature tour the text was outside of the boxes resulting in half on/half off effect that made it hard to read and looked wrong. Also in the page that you are dumped to after signup, the right side had a few elements like "Get started by creating your very first event." that were sitting strangely halfway on top of a white div element.
The layout for the events pages was VERY nice and just generally well done. Congratulations. I can see how this would be a very useful site but, as I'm sure you're aware, you have some competitors to deal with in this space. I've not organized many events so I haven't used them so it's hard for me to say what advantages you have over them. One thing I really liked was the free tickets for free and/or charity events. Very nice.
I'd be interested in hearing what your competitive advantages are over something like eventbrite.com.