In Finding Things to Do, Mobile App Uses Calendar for Search

Onemarketplace.com, a San Diego-based e-commerce platform that enabled users to simultaneously list items for sale on eBay, Amazon, Craigslist, Oodle, OLX, and Vast, sell through classified ads on AOL, Facebook, and MySpace, and promote their listings on Twitter and Facebook.

“We launched OMP in 2009 and did some light marketing for about 6 months,” Anton says. “Based on the usage metrics we decided not to further develop, but the site is still active.”

“It’s a good idea,” Boyd, who was a Onemarketplace co-founder and marketing director. “But if someone wants to sell an old couch, they put it on Craigslist, and if they want to sell something that’s more upscale they put it on eBay. In some ways, we solved a problem that people didn’t really have.”

With Time to Enjoy, the uTemporis founders are facing a different challenge—differentiating themselves in a market crowded with similar apps for finding things to do. The most notable example is “Find Stuff to Do,” a free app from London-based Brian Industries. But the list also includes AroundMe, Where, Localicious, Thrillist, Mezz, Poynt, Eventseeker, Timerazor, and more. For the most part, Anton says, “They are really location-based/category directories, for example, ‘Where is a gas station?’ rather than direct competitors for finding events.”

So what makes Time to Enjoy different?

In an email this morning, Anton writes: “Time to Enjoy is the first app to use a calendar user interface for finding events (patent pending). By tapping on the calendar a user actually provides

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Author: Bruce V. Bigelow

In Memoriam: Our dear friend Bruce V. Bigelow passed away on June 29, 2018. He was the editor of Xconomy San Diego from 2008 to 2018. Read more about his life and work here. Bruce Bigelow joined Xconomy from the business desk of the San Diego Union-Tribune. He was a member of the team of reporters who were awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting for uncovering bribes paid to San Diego Republican Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham in exchange for special legislation earmarks. He also shared a 2006 award for enterprise reporting from the Society of Business Editors and Writers for “In Harm’s Way,” an article about the extraordinary casualty rate among employees working in Iraq for San Diego’s Titan Corp. He has written extensively about the 2002 corporate accounting scandal at software goliath Peregrine Systems. He also was a Gerald Loeb Award finalist and National Headline Award winner for “The Toymaker,” a 14-part chronicle of a San Diego start-up company. He takes special satisfaction, though, that the series was included in the library for nonfiction narrative journalism at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. Bigelow graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 1977 with a degree in English Literature and from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1979. Before joining the Union-Tribune in 1990, he worked for the Associated Press in Los Angeles and The Kansas City Times.