Checkout the 4 campus celebs that founded the app: Kofi Asante, Denis Bravenec, Richard Kim and Jared Moskowitz and what they have to say about WeParty.
Is there even anything going on tonight?….Does that party have a theme? Do I need tickets?… I wanna go into Boston tonight but is there something exciting going on?
These are questions we’ve all heard on a typical Thursday, Friday or Saturday night at Tufts. It’s hard to keep track or even discover what’s going on but thanks to 4 awesome Tufts students, we can now all have the answers.
“WeParty is a mobile application that becomes your partying companion by creating a centralized source of late-night events and parties on and around campus” This app has the all the details you need to have a great night (including deals for those late night munchies!)
WeParty will be partnering with Spring Fling so make sure to check the app to stay up to date on all things happening!
What does WeParty mean to you?
Kofi: WeParty is our baby that is extremely well connected. It means always knowing what’s happening on campus and feeling like you have the entire social scene on your phone.
Denis: WeParty for me is college social life, and it has become my everyday life. I want our work to show that even as freshmen you can create something that solves an issue, and we want to help others do the same.
Jared: WeParty is the process and experience I’ve gained. My mental and physical limits are continually exceeded. I have gone days without sleep, and I have forgotten to eat. After a two-day coding session, I was on my way to go to sleep, but I have no recollection of talking to my roommate. I blacked out from coding… that’s WeParty.
Richard: It means that I can make a tangible impact without having to ask for permission. It means that I can learn a valuable skill without having to go through a tutorial or intro class. It means I can learn to work collaboratively with people I don’t always see eye-to-eye with, but at the same time, I can flip a switch so that we can jump right back into being friends.
What’s you’re favorite part about the app?
K: My favorite part of the app is the Munchies section because the restaurants we have there are all the ones I order from pretty consistently
D: The events that are and will be on it. They actually are events that I want to go to, and I love finding events that I have never heard of before on the app.
J: I was about to answer this question with a plug for private invites (actually though it’s a great feature), but then I remembered the actual best part about the app: the information section. What do we inform our users? “This is an app.” That’s it. Zero bullshit.
R: My favorite part of the app is coding it. I know, boring right? Honestly, I don’t mean to sound pretentious, but people sometimes come to me and say “wow you made this?!”, etc and I can’t help but feel awkward. I mean, I’m proud of what we did and I’m so glad people are enjoying it, but it catches me off guard a lot to know that people use something we made.
What’s like being on the WeParty team?
K: Hate to sound cliche but it genuinely feels like a family. We all live on the same hall so we were close before WeParty. Love everyone on the team and couldn’t ask for better people to work with.
D: It’s a crazy sleepless family.
J: WeWork hard, WeParty hard. That was lame, but actually though it is cool to be in the party business.
R: In a word: “tough”. These are my friends I’m working with, and we don’t always see eye to eye. We’ve had to have a lot of conversations that have been hard on the group and the goal. Having to ask a friend to relinquish their responsibility for a job was a personal nightmare. That being said, by “tough” I don’t just mean difficult, I also mean that we’ve become tough (yay, more corniness!). Also, I should mention that I wouldn’t want to work on this with any other group of individuals. I love these guys.
What does the future of WeParty look like?
K: We are in the process of adding more restaurants, clubs, bars and other schools for the next school year. We want to connect Boston so that students at Tufts can also see whats happening at other schools and vice versa.
D: Tufts. Bars and clubs. Boston. Europe?
J: Promising.
R: Honestly? No idea, which is great! So many companies have transformed into what they needed to be, rather than what they intended. For us, we started out thinking we’d do just parties, but we’ve decided to make a change to encompass other social event such as acapella shows, concerts, movie nights, etc. We will definitely be expanding to other schools, and as a result will probably have to adapt accordingly. Personally, I want this to be able to unite college towns. My college life at Tufts can be exponentially expanded if I had access to the absurd number of undergrads in Boston, and what’s a better way to get to know a person or place than to party with them?
If you were a drink what would you be?
K: If I were a drink I would probably be a red bull. Regardless of what anyone else says they’d probably be a red bull either because feel like we never stop until we crash.
D: A beautiful B-52.
J: Rubinoff. I didn’t choose it, it chose me.
R: Water. Water’s my jazz. My signature “I’m about to code all night” item is a 2L camelback hiking bladder (that big bag of water with a big straw-looking thing dangling off it). Hang one of those up like an IV line and you can sit in one place for long periods of time, while simultaneously tricking yourself into thinking you’re being kind of healthy.
A close second is coffee though. That’s mostly because I’m probably 20% coffee at this point.
Want more details about the app? Checkout this article in the Tufts Daily! Download the app in the App Store and like them on Facebook here!