It's very light on festivals outside of America. I didn't notice a single Dutch one. There are dozens and dozens, and that's just one country.
It would be nice to be able to filter by continent/country. Not living in the US, 90% of the festivals listed on the website are irrelevant to me.
I've been toying with a similar idea for Europe, cool to see there are others. Looks pretty nice for a first iteration. UI needs a little more tidying and some images (e.g. the festival lineup image on https://festivalhunt.com/ultra) lose their aspect ratio.
How much of this did you manually input, and how much is scraped?
Keep up the good work!
Your content would be more useful to a European audience if you added a a less generic electric dance music category, Techno, House and Drum and Bass would a be great addition. Otherwise, good work, useful thing.
I know new social networks are so 2010, but I honestly can’t believe there isn’t a mainstream social app that shows popular upcoming live events (concerts, festivals, events , etc) near you or elsewhere with an RSVP function to see who is going (and thus see events that are trending or popular and upcoming).
Eventbrite and Facebook sort of do this but neither have event features that are really optimized for this IMO.
Would definitely use that all the time.
The very first result, Coachella, is listed as $300. Having attended multiple times (and going again in 3 days), I can assure you that the actual cost is much higher.
It makes me skeptical of the rest of the information displayed for festivals I am less familiar with.
Date formatting is backwards for a UK audience might be worth using the browsers locale
Can't find fyre festival.
Seems odd to include Burning Man - if you go there expecting it to be a music festival like the rest of these, you're likely to have a bad time. I mean, yes, it does so happen that a lot of people bring mini-festivals to share as art projects, but that's not what the event itself is about.
I know we can use OCR but just thinking about how festival lineups are often an image with a crazy font for different bands and yeah the exclusivity or underground elements for this hurts my head. I shall investigate the alt text for festival lineup images
This is great. I had this exact same idea and half-coded it about 7 years ago (called it festmap). I wanted to also index the artists, but gave up when I realised how difficult it was to scrape.
Nice job, it's clear, and easy to use.
Backend seems down for me. Also the second filter date picker is positioned so its off my screen (23" standard monitor). Cool concept though and it seemed to work for others judging from the other HN comments
https://www.musicfestivalwizard.com This one suits me nice. Relevant info through adequate filtering.
I would legitimately use this. I just moved to Vancouver, Canada & had to do some serious Reddit research to find all the small/midsize fests. Is it crowd-sourced data?
I just have a tiny comment: you seem to have quite a few console logs left in the code (for debugging reasosns perhaps?), but it would look nicer if you could remove them. :)
This is amazing, and something I have been looking for for a long time. One problem though, at least EDC, Govenor's Ball and Bonnaroo dates all seem to be wrong
What's running the backend? Is it open source?
It would be nice to filter out/in Live Nation, large corp. ect. events. I personally like the idie fests. Great job!
I like it. Since when are you live and which features do you plan next?
I like the concept, and great CSS animation for the listings!
ImagineFest is missing (EDM camping festival in Georgia)
Where does the data come from, and, why isn't Dirtybird Campout on the list?
Nice service to get an initial overview. I am a regular festival-goer, but I prefer to go to more "underground"-ish festival (for the lack of a better word). Those festivals don't necessarily want to be easily discoverable (i.e. the Fusion festival in Germany goes great lengths to suppress the hype around it).
For me the discoverability problem is another one: In recent years, I am listening to so many new bands and musicians, that I am totally loosing track of their names. It occurred to me more than one time, that someone was talking about a band, whose name I thought I never heard before, to later find out that they did a song or album, that I actually listened a lot. This also goes for festivals: I walk around at a festival and hear a familiar song playing somewhere and realize, that there is a band playing that I enjoy a lot, but whose name I didn't remember at all. I know other people have this problem too and I assume this is a by-product of the UX of streaming music (when you have to put a CD or vinyl on every time you want to listen to a band, ofc you learn the names much faster).
So what I actually need is a service, where I can paste a link to a festival website, which the service scrapes and does entity recognition on. Then the resulting list of bands should be matched against my Spotify history and tell me the matches (either because I actually listened to the bands, or by some means of collaborative filtering). I am thinking about doing this in script form for this years Fusion festival, but would also like to know, if more people are interested in a service like this.