Sometime this past Sunday morning, our database welcomed its millionth event.
What can we say? It's a nice milestone for us. It's a big round number that looks good in a headline. It's an excuse to pat each other on the back. But it's not even close to where we want to be.
If anything, it's an excuse for a blog post. I think this is a good moment to point out what we hope this million future events means for our users.
We think it's great that superstar comedian Jim Gaffigan uses Eventful Demand to interact with his fans. We're stoked to have the details about his upcoming 30 city tour.
Personally, I'm glad that Eventful's million events includes the Stephen Malkmus show at the Casbah that I'm planning on going to next month. It's nice to have a single spot to find out about what's going on around San Diego.
But what really gives us the warm fuzzies is knowing that among our million events are things like Munden, Kansas's Republic County Spring Czech Festival and tomorrow's Philadelphia Community Service Project Meetup.
Eventful is about making events discoverable. We love helping Jim Gaffigan and Stephen Malkmus sell out their shows, but what really fires us up is the thought of helping people find the small events, the little community ones that happen down the street. We'd love to take a few of those little meetings and turn them into standing room only events!
So, poke around our 1,000,000 future events and see if you can find something near you that you knew nothing about. It shouldn't take long.
