Jul 24, 2006 by steve

Hello world. Our first blog post.

So we have launched Sportsvite.com, a site that helps people organize all kinds of active sports. It’s been in the works for awhile now and was born out of frustration in organizing football games in New York. It was a pain to get people together for games with back and forth email and when a game finally game together, we wanted to play with people who shared the same skills, experience, and attitude.

Is it a social network? Sure. The service helps groups of people get together to achieve a specific purpose - get a softball team together or manage an existing team. Is it a so-called Web 2.0 company? Sure again. We’re delivering a service instead of software and are in what seems to be a perpetual beta. The value of the service can be realized for both an existing, closed group of people as an organizational tool OR for people that are looking for subs, teams to compete with, or new teams to join. Our wonderful member base gives us feedback on what they’d like to see in the site and we’re also making it easy to push our services outside the boundaries of our site with simple syndication tools. Overall, it’s a light business model that’s proven - we just have to see the extent in which we can take it. Ultimately though, we don’t really care how Sportsvite is described as we long we know we’ve created (and continue to build) something that is useful for people into sports.