{"id":618230,"date":"2026-06-03T04:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T04:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/618230\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T04:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T04:01:11","slug":"partiful-is-putting-ticket-payments-on-its-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/618230\/","title":{"rendered":"Partiful Is Putting Ticket Payments on Its Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cPartiful will not make money. There is no pitch at scale,\u201d Partiful once posted via tweet<\/a> in 2023, adding, \u201cInvestors gave us money to help u party, and that is what we are here to do. Enjoy it babes.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a call with WIRED, Murthy said the tweet was always meant to be a joke.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s kind of funny how many people took it literally, and now it’s followed us around everywhere, and it’s become a meme,\u201d Murthy said. \u201cBut it is nice to say that Partiful is monetizing now.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Courtesy of Partiful<\/p>\n

Partiful has done well partly due to its ability to channel a kind of public whimsy and weirdness people are looking to partake in. Just a cursory glance through a list of events in the Bay Area shows events like \u201cOpen Paint Night,\u201d \u201cCapture the Flag,\u201d and \u201cBean-Up.\u201d (The description reads, \u201cDo you love beans?\u201d 42 people say they are going at the time of writing.) The service has its detractors<\/a>, but it has proved very popular for people looking to arrange quick get-togethers or off-kilter social experiments<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Partiful couldn\u2019t have coasted along on good vibes alone forever. Especially when it faces challengers like Facebook Events<\/a>, Apple Invites<\/a>, or the hot new invite app, Luma<\/a>. But the move to build out a financial future is likely to make users nervous. Enshittification<\/a> is en vogue, after all, and users have seen service after service get bogged down by growth-driven monetization machinations that eventually bloat the experience and alienate its users.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would contend that with the launch of ticketing, this is an act of unshittification,\u201d Murthy says. \u201cThe experience today is janky for hosts, and it’s janky for guests. That process that people were already going through is now streamlined directly in Partiful.\u201d<\/p>\n

Murthy says she wants Partiful to focus on smaller, community-oriented events, rather than take direct aim at ticket behemoths like AXS or Ticketmaster that run ticket sales for larger events. The immediate plan isn\u2019t to become a platform that sells Taylor Swift Eras tour tickets, though when asked if that\u2019s the goal, Murthy is not not down.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook, if Taylor Swift reads this article, please print that I would love for her to have her concert on Partiful,\u201d Murthy says. \u201cShe can have her people contact my people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cPartiful will not make money. There is no pitch at scale,\u201d Partiful once posted via tweet in 2023,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[226,10730,2306,8502,224,1208,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-618230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-apps","tag-events","tag-mobile","tag-social","tag-social-media","tag-startups","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}