Most Boston University students have roamed around Allston looking for parties on a Friday night in groups of 20 or more. Students at Harvard were victims of the same brutal fate until last Wednesday, when three real ‘Van Wilders’ came to the rescue.

The three brought www.harvardparties.com online last week, allowing students to search for parties without the hassle of walking through local neighborhoods. The site has since received an estimated 10,000 hits from colleges all over the Boston area since it started.

The purpose of the site is ‘to promote parties and provide a recap,’ said Darren Morris, a Harvard junior and one of the site’s three founders. Visitors can also purchase digital photographs from the parties for $2. In addition, it boasts a directory of email listings and faces you know, just in case you don’t remember his or her name.

Morris and his two partners, Harvard seniors Zac Corker and Paul Hersh, decided the site was a necessity after they threw a party at Mather House and an estimated 1,300 attended.

Over the summer, the three talked about the need for a party resource, but they had no funding. That was until they found out about the Harvard Student Agency Entrepreneurial Competition. They won an undisclosed amount of money to fund the website, which was then created by Harvard sophomore Bill Cocks.

‘We had the ideas, and he put the site up in five days,’ Corker said. The site is an entrepreneurial venture, but the founders said are not expecting to make money.

They’re answering to a higher power: the party gods.

‘Our mission is really to change the Harvard social scene,’ Corker said.

Corker said BU students are welcome to post any parties they would like Harvard students to attend, and the service is free. Likewise, unless the event is labeled ‘Harvard exclusive,’ BU students are invited to all Harvard events.

The Harvard Parties site mirrors many of the services offered by www.clubplanet.com. Clubplanet was started to provide guest lists for nightclubs in New York City in 1995. Eventually it became huge and expanded beyond New York.

But Clubplanet deals with nightclubs and not college parties.

The three guys that met on the Mather House Council have created a clubplanet.com for students because, they said, they are just on a mission to have fun.

‘We’re cutting through the administrative red tape’ Morris said. ‘People have a right to party.’