For the past 6 years I’ve been building an event management platform. One thing I always saw: clients spending hours making email templates, landing pages, guest lists, forms… all super repetitive stuff.
With AI coming in, I started thinking: what if the whole event workflow could be AI-powered? Imagine typing something like “create a Porsche team-building in NYC from Sept 10–12” and instantly getting the event site, registration, emails, the whole package. All styled in the company’s branding. Could even work for someone’s wedding or birthday.
I put together an MVP and launched it last week - envelope.so
Would love your honest thoughts: is this actually solving a big pain, or does it feel like one of those “nice idea but...” tools?
mnky9800n•5mo ago
I really like this idea. I organized a conference last year for around 100 people, 2 days, wiht a dozen speakers. It was a ton of work to organize everything and i had spreadsheets everywhere and had to interact with a bunch of people about it. I think what would also be useful is having
* some kind of internal, only to VIPs, information or something like that. Like, if you register for some kind of conference but you are a speaker there, there is extra information for you that other conferences don't have.
* It would also be cool to have like a tie-in hotel booking system or something like that because conferences will have relationships with hotels to get discounts and so driving it through the event management system would be cool.
* Also, having it tie in with some kind of submission platform for conference proceedings would be cool.
* Having some kind of interaction tool so that your event organizing team can look at things would also be cool. Like I worked with the University of Oslo Science Library, they produced a bunch of posters and flyers and social media posts and stuff like that. It would be cool to have a store for all this kind of marketing material.
Those are just some ideas based on my experiences organizing workshops and conferences.
sonyhong•5mo ago
1) Yeah, we already have that in Envelope. :) You can segment your guest list based on their personal information and then send them unique personalized communication via e-mail.
2) Good point! Seems like a good idea for later upsell.
3) We have complete registration flow built within the platform, so everytime you create an event Envelope will automatically create the whole registration flow for you, including the paid events where guests need to buy tickets.
4)Sounds interesting, right now we count with users using Task management tool with Envelope now.
Thank you so much for your take!
mnky9800n•5mo ago
of course, I already sent the link to my admin maybe we will use it next time we organize a conference! That's another thing, we will likely not need to pay VAT because we are a university. So handling VAT/non-VAT stuff would also be something to think about.
sonyhong•5mo ago
For the past 6 years I’ve been building an event management platform. One thing I always saw: clients spending hours making email templates, landing pages, guest lists, forms… all super repetitive stuff.
With AI coming in, I started thinking: what if the whole event workflow could be AI-powered? Imagine typing something like “create a Porsche team-building in NYC from Sept 10–12” and instantly getting the event site, registration, emails, the whole package. All styled in the company’s branding. Could even work for someone’s wedding or birthday.
I put together an MVP and launched it last week - envelope.so
Would love your honest thoughts: is this actually solving a big pain, or does it feel like one of those “nice idea but...” tools?
mnky9800n•5mo ago
* some kind of internal, only to VIPs, information or something like that. Like, if you register for some kind of conference but you are a speaker there, there is extra information for you that other conferences don't have.
* It would also be cool to have like a tie-in hotel booking system or something like that because conferences will have relationships with hotels to get discounts and so driving it through the event management system would be cool.
* Also, having it tie in with some kind of submission platform for conference proceedings would be cool.
* Having some kind of interaction tool so that your event organizing team can look at things would also be cool. Like I worked with the University of Oslo Science Library, they produced a bunch of posters and flyers and social media posts and stuff like that. It would be cool to have a store for all this kind of marketing material.
Those are just some ideas based on my experiences organizing workshops and conferences.
sonyhong•5mo ago
Thank you so much for your take!
mnky9800n•5mo ago
sonyvu•5mo ago
Yes, still a lot of edge cases to incorporate. Thanks for the tip. We will get it on roadmap.