Some feedback:
1. I would like to be able to get from the event to the map pin position. Both on the event screen (it could be even embedded there) and in search results. The site is showing me only events in Cyrillic - I don't know why. Perhaps the closest events to me are in Ukraine/Russia?
2. I dislike the decisions about where target="_blank" is used. Sometimes it is used when I don't expect it and sometimes it is not used when I do expect it.
3. I wouldn't do the transform: rotate; thing with text. It feels strange. Might even make it less accessible for some.
4. CAPITAL BLUE WORDS - some of them are links and some of them are emphasis. You need to distinguish those cases.
5. Why can't I access the map with uBlock Origin? Don't tell me it's required for the positioning, use Geolocation browser API.
6. On the landing page, you are for some reason putting all of the content into <h2 /> tags.
Why do I need to turn off my adblocker to see the map?
Seems to be down now.
Obviously I can't see it, but from your description, I wonder if you want to be more precise about what you mean by "event". Do you primarily mean passive ticketed events like shows, or interactive things like workshops? Or community gatherings like Parkrun.
I have some hesitation about making all events more discoverable. Sometimes the friction of dincoverability is important to getting the right kind of people to come, who heard through the right channels, as opposed to some random who did the easiest thing by looking on a website.
Having tourists show up at a community building event for locals might sound great for the tourist, but not so great for the community.
Interesting idea!
I didn't like being locked out until I disabled my adblocker, but maybe you have your reasons.
There are 6 or 7 events listed for the entire Burlington, Vermont metro area (over 200,000 people), which is way, way less than what's actually going on in the area.
The locations of all the events that are there are off: UVM Patrick Gym isn't at the administration building where the pin is (but at least the pin is on campus). The others make no sense, though: the Flynn Center is on Main Street downtown, not way out on North Ave, and Higher Ground Music is located on Williston Rd, not across town at the South Burlington indoor skating rink. I don't know where it's getting its location info.
The Flynn and Higher Ground Music have dozens of events on their websites that aren't listed on the map. I'm not sure how it pulled a random handful; must've been from an incomplete data set, though.
It's an idea that has promise but I don't find it useful right now.
Really cool idea and generally solid execution -- I would totally use this.
That said, a couple bits: 1. I can't seem to click the events on the map in Safari on Mac. 2. The map doesn't load at all in Brave (I even dropped the tracker blocking on the site and reloaded and it still didn't load).
This is very cool. I had a similar idea recently but I had no idea how to correctly parse various sources of event information other than writing custom beautiful soup or similar code for every single source.
Actually, I was thinking that event information could maybe be correctly pulled using AI tools. Admittedly, I'm no AI expert, so I am unsure what open source tools would be best for this.
Anyone know of models that could be given a url, and parse any website and scrape the event data and return it in json with a very high degree of accuracy?
What would be cool is to just give the app a list of bookmarks and get a map like this or even automatically have it parsed into ical format.
I always wanted something similar for my city and started with the local cinema program but then never added any other sources. It was still useful for the 10 or so years it was online, and I still think about getting back to it.
That said, while the idea seems promising, it‘s difficult to maintain, especially since sources (APIs / websites) tend to change frequently. If I remember correctly, pg even mentions this idea in one of his essays as a typical “bad idea“ that founders want to build but nobody figures it out as a business.
Nice idea! From the perspective of someone who is in need of such a solution, I have explored similar apps before, and one of the biggest issues was that I don't look for events regularly (frequency is once a week or two). As a result, I tend to forget the name of the platform when I actually need it.
I don't have a lot of suggestions on how to solve this but if your platform can be consistently visible to your users, that would help you a lot with adoption.
Wow ... I must admit I am thrilled about all the feedback!
There are lots of things to be fixed and improved for sure and all those comments were just the thing I needed!
Maybe one other question ... what do you thing about the ideas that I have for other features:
-Build-in resell marketplace - Option to sell a ticket that you already own if you cannot attend the event.
-Adding own events.
-Live-streaming and PPV.
-Build-in navigation to the event.
-Email notifications about similar events to the one you attended.
-Create groups of people with whom to go to given event.
P.S.
I will try to answer all of the comments! :)
Your map page doesn't explain itself at all. Every page on your site needs at least a tagline to help people understand what they're looking at.
I managed to get to use it before it was hugged to death, and found some great nearby concerts and events to go to. Immediate feedback:
- ESC closes the current window you just clicked to open
- Different color icons for music/events
- Filter by music/events
- Filter by upcoming date (next 30,90,6mo etc)
Nice one! I had/have a similar idea, tried to build something, but you know how side projects go… you have a good idea, you register the domain, you get new project fever and try to prepare an MVP but unfortunately something happens and you stop.
You really need to put effort into it in order to create something. As others have said, everyone has ideas, it’s the execution that matters ;-)
Please post again when it's available for the .world (or at least other parts of it).
Hi,
Based on all the feedback we will try to find a solution where we can show the correct map position also with adblocker on.
The other problem with this however is that in this early stage the only monetization that we have in mind are google ads.
There are three main buttons. The big red button with a globe I have no idea what it’s supposed to do, it does nothing when I tap it. The home button doesn’t seem to do anything either. Then I lost interest.
If you're only targeting US users, I'd suggest displaying dates and times in the US format (MDY am/pm).
I'm getting a Heroku application error.
> If you have problems seeing the map, please stop your AdBlocker...
Well, no.