The Truth
It began with the five of us. Five college kids with the outset plan of making a difference in the night lives of others. It began with Wadido.com.
We must have spent a whole summer in the library researching and cataloging upcoming events for next year. Steadily entering them in an excel spread sheet and stomping out code. Sporting events, real estate open houses, book signings, movie premieres, comedy nights, we had everything that you could think of. Totaling about 30,000 events. Spread out all across the nation. By the end of the summer our website was live!
The search engine for events that everyone was waiting for. The answer to the "what's there to do tonight?" question. We had a great site on our hands. We were providing an awesome service that would have remained free if we would have stayed away from outside branding.
What's outside branding? It's when a firm reaches out to you in hopes of their event being listed over other events. We were offered good money! Amounts that most internet start ups wouldn't think about turning down. But in taking the money our algorithms that made the search engine work would have been immensely compromised.
Instead of giving our users the best event in their area, we would have been giving them the events that payed us the most money to be the most prominent options. A situation that happens all too often.
We said no!
In doing so, we became blacklisted. All of a sudden our domain registrar became corrupted. We were notified that our domain was no longer secured. Our site crashed. Our original algorithms lost for ever.
Today, we stand exploring other ventures until we bring back the FREE service that brought our users so many events worth knowing.
Our blog has made the time away a lot less painful, maintained by the original 5, WadidoLA.com has given us a great way to speak out and share news. Thanks for dropping bye.
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