New Jersey Tech Entrepreneurs CrowdFund their "Pinterest for Events" Idea

Westfield, New Jersey based Hatchedit.com launched a crowdfunding this week on Indiegogo.com focused on raising $7,750 in funding for the development of a free local events and activities calendar. End Quote

We believe we have the tools to bring together what is a very popular, but very disjointed, local events and activities industry

Newark, NJ (1888PressRelease) December 30, 2013 - The team at Westfield, New Jersey based tech startup http://www.hatchedit.com views the local events calendar best summed up as "Pinterest for local events" as PHASE TWO of their social platforms development.

The Local Events Calendar will allow anyone to create an event and share it on a public bulletin board. Events can include links back to blogs or other sites that have full event information on them. Events can also be downloaded and saved to a Hatchedit.com calendar, an icalendar, Outlook Calendar or Google Calendar. The events will also be shareable on other social media. We are looking for a quick, fast, and easy way for people to share what is going on in their neighborhood with those people who are making plans.

One of the only places that have attempted this sort of calendar/event interface is Patch.com. The AOL owned local network was an excellent source of local event information for anyone that followed their local Patch site (or even just the events RSS Feeds - which we personally used on our own Hatchedit.com accounts to find local events). However, with Patch.com sites shutting down rapidly, we felt that there was a great opportunity here to allow people to crowdsource event information in the same way that Pinterest allows people to crowdsource visual stimulus.

"The Hatchedit.com local events calendar is the only platform that attempts to bring together what is a very popular but very disjointed local events and activities industry," says Kirsten Bischoff, Co-Founder of Hatchedit.com. "There are currently many local bloggers, and local email newsletters working to get out local information regarding events and activities - but it isn't always easy to find them. We feel as though we are in the perfect position to help local events specialists, local businesses, and other people creating exciting events to get that information out and the families that are looking for things to do locally find that information faster and easier."

Hatchedit.com is a bootstrapped tech startup that has spent the past two years developing a private social network for families built around a family calendar. We have thousands of members using our free site and our free iPhone and Android apps. Because of this built in audience we are able to offer some very exciting rewards. We have everything from physical objects - such as laptop decals and coffee mugs to promotional rewards that allow donors to reach the thousands of Hatchedit.com users we see on our sites and apps every day. Have a blog or a family friendly product to promote? We have $75 will get you an email blast out to almost 17,000 people. Other generous donations can get your blog a default feed on our RSS reader, or a prime advertising spot across our site and our apps.

Crowdfunding enables people with a great business idea to ask the general public for the funding they need to set up or expand. The business sets a target for the money it wants to raise and explains how it will use the cash. People can then make pledges for small amounts of money in return for a reward if the target is reached.

If you have any questions or you would like to schedule an interview please feel free to email us at kikandmeg ( @ ) hatchedit dot com - we'd be more than happy to talk to you dot You can also reach us on Twitter at ( @ ) hatchedit - thanks!

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