VirtualMeet is a platform to list and manage your organisation’s public and private events taking place online, to make it easier for people to discover, register and attend.
1. virtualmeet.com
Nicolai Thomson, Eugene Wang, Justina Lam, Jaimie Thom, Caleb Owens, Paul
Cedrick, Christina Chen, Byron Ullauri, Joel Murray and Faith Coremo
All your virtual events listed in
one place
3. The Challenge - #2 Gather & #3 Disciple
Connecting
Too many organisers are emailing, tweeting and
texting event login details for too many different
platforms.
These are hard to find 3 hours never mind 3 days later.
Community
Loneliness, depression and anxiety from job
losses and physical isolation seeks deep &
meaningful community of Faith, Hope, Love and
discipleship.
4. Solution
Channels Groups Meets
VirtualMeet is a platform to list and
manage your organisation’s public and
private events taking place online, to
make it easier for people to discover,
register and attend.
5. Our Process
Wireframe & schema
User testing
Lo-fi design
Team discussion for product vision board, daily standups give us structure
Pencil UX wireframes for testing, contracts and schema by devs
Changed dashboard, channel to host and event to meet
Re-test users
Back-end development started, stand-ups become one hour :
Switched host to channel, EPIC cards & continuous integration achieved
Significant Learnings & Changes
CSS components
Development
hi-fi mockups and front-end look amazing, team pushing late nights
Slimmed down MVP, back-end, API and front-end bugs
Vision
6. Value Prop
versus meetup.com
We’ve improved value than 10x already:
● Channels, groups and events with a
managed organisation identity
● Public, discoverable or private groups
& events to manage security
● Zoom API for one-click room creation
and attendance (more platforms coming)
7. Why Build
Short term vs. Long term
Short Term:
Stabilize mental wellbeing, reduce anxiety,
increase human interaction. We have to
make virtual meets easy to discover and join
Long Term:
Improve physical and mental wellbeing.
Centralize the online events space, build a fit
for purpose video service
Disruption inspired by the merging Meetup,
Zoom and YouTube specialties
8. Unprecedented opportunity
to win web traffic and secure eyeballs as the
world’s ‘hub’ for virtual events.
Various monetisation options in future, right
now speed is of the essence.
Business Model
Possible Monetisation
Enable hosts to charge for virtual
events / we take a commission
Add-on revenue partnerships by
owning the customer relationship
Revenue share with channels for
media advertising similar to
YouTube
9. Project Status
Team, funding, technology
and customers
Team most of the team have found this project
inspiring and will continue
Funding we are very happy to announce an
investment of $10,000 to fund our project
Technology we have an active Trello board tracking
up to 3 months of MVP and EPIC tasks with user
stories and acceptance criteria
Customers assist onboarding of 1000 churches
Editor's Notes
+ intentionally not a Church branded platform so that the Church appears in amongst exercise classes, book clubs and virtual coffees, just as the Church building would do so on the high street or village square.