Wednesday, July 27, 2005

FreeSummerConcerts.com!

Hey All,

My newest venture is something called www.FreeSummerConcerts.com
It grew (very quickly) out of my penchant for frugal entertainment. In addition to going to see movies during the middle of the day, another great thing about being a passionpreneur is enjoying all the free concerts around town here in NY every summer. I decided, therefore, to put together a database of these events and make them available to others who are similarly inclined to seek low-cost entertainment options. The PERL script that generates the emails is my own creation and the bastard child of a survey script and a shopping cart script I have in my possession. It took me about a day to conceive the idea and another day to create the site and script. When someone joins the list, the script automatically scans the database and grabs upcoming events for the next three days. After launching the site just about 2 weeks ago, I already have 370 subscribers!