> I've organized so many parties that I feel qualified to comment here

> I refuse to use an event page personally because I think it makes it less personal. I always DM people directly if I want to invite them.

These parties you've organized, I'm sure they were quite lovely, but can't have been truly epic, yeah? DMing, say 30 people is one thing, but if you're looking at, let's say 500, is another matter. If you need to spend 30 seconds per attendee to get their name and their telephone number and then paste in the same message, 500 attendees makes that take over 4 hours!

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baby 3 days ago | parent [-]

I've thrown parties with 100s of people and its mostly because people invite other people, for people you care less about a single DM you copy/pasted with the info is enough.

I also organize pretty large meetups with easily 500 people trying to get into the guest list and it's the same amount of work to go through the list and vet people tbh

	▲	fragmede 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		What automation and tooling do you use? Between Twilio and iMessage python library and beeper, even if you don't use Partiful, there's lots of opportunity for software to make things less laborious.