Hoboken Entrepreneur Wants to 'Revolutionize' Your Social Life

Liam Hayden, a Hoboken resident, is launching a a new app to make party planning as easy as downloading an app. Instaparty, which has been in developed through a partnership with start-up gurus at Launchpad 14 months ago.

“This app could revolutionize your social life,” Hayden said.

Hayden has spent more than 12 years in the nightlife industry, and so he developed this app to help bar owners make the most of recent trends for crowdsourcing. As per the name “Instaparty,” the app automatizes the planning of small and midsize parties so they can go off quickly, often in under half an hour.

Users can go on the app, put in their parties’ details, from number in their party to the type of drinks or appetizers they’d like.

The app then finds the bars that make the most sense to host the party, and then the party’s parameters are delivered to that bar. Users can also request a specific bar.

“You get a response on that in minutes,” Hayden said. “We designed this not for the users but also for the bar owners. We carry this for the bar owner experience -- it’s a matter of mutual importance.”

Hayden is Hoboken resident. He chose to start in his hometown because it has the highest concentration of bars per square mile in the northeast, according to the Guiness Book of World Records.

“We are beta testing in Hoboken while we build up a network in Manhattan,” Hayden said. Hayden aims to sign up between 70 and 80 bars before selling the app to the public. “

“We’re almost there,” Hayden said. They’re aiming for a soft launch in December.