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I love the idea behind Gather -- http://ychacks.challengepost.com/submissions/25793-gather

They could monetize by allowing certain restaurants and events to purchase priority.

What if the restaurants/events/clubs "pitched" for that group? So if you had a decent sized group willing to spend and they were having a quiet night, they might offer you a free bottle of wine with dinner. A competing restaurant might offer 2-for-1 meals or a welcome drink.

Restaurants and venues could gain some additional traffic for off-peak hours using these incentives -- sort of a late-night happy hour that requires the group to check-in through the app. Pretty smart.

And I think it's inevitable that an attractive or high-spending group would receive favourable "bids" from venues. That's happening already in club queues around the world, but at least this way you might waste less time waiting or at least get better treatment at a second-tier club than be snubbed at the most popular spot. Ugly reality of trends in that world, maybe.

Thanks! We were thinking we'd allow restaurants/places to give out free things (ex: one free shot at a bar) to incentivize people to go to certain places.

Would also like to implement finding facebook/eventbrite events in the future :)

That's awesome. Monetization and incentivization will be a huge draw for the app.

I look forward to trying it out.

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