Hey, I like this! Every so often I'm like <i>"Gee, haven't been to a show lately, I wish there were some band I've heard of playing around here"</i>. So I have to find some indie newspaper to look up who is in town, but a homeless guy took them all out of the rack and is trying to sell them, and I don't want to look on all the clubs' websites so I give up. Not anymore.<p>Thanks,<p>Rejected Jessica Alba suitor Brian McKenzie
Cool, I like it -- it immediately delivers on what I expected it would do. I'm not sure what the tag cloud significance is, however. Are the larger displayed bands more popular in searches?<p>By the way, I'm not sure why saying "Rejected YC company" is of any value. I don't introduce myself as "Stanford rejected person, Daniel Ha".
I just had a peek and found out that my favourite band is making a rare european tour and is soon playing just a mile from my front door. So rare, infact, that I don't even usually bother to check their tour dates. Anyway, I just spent $100 on a pair of tickets - shame that bandsintown didn't get a penny.
Hi guys, I like this a lot. Quick feedback:<p>It isn't immediately obvious how to change my location. However, once I found out that you just click on the city name you detected my entry very well.<p>Like others, I'm wondering what makes a band's name appear more prominent in the tag cloud. I clicked on the largest name for my area. <p>I don't know why indy vs label delineation is broken out in detail, but genre is not. Maybe you should show five genres which users can click on as examples before entering their own.<p>You guys found me a show: terance blanchard at Yoshi's in Oakland. Thanks a lot!
Don't know much much about tag clouds, so excuse my ignorance: But, has this basic idea been done before, except with things other than bands?<p>The reason I ask: My first impression was very strongly, "This is a neat tool, but why would they limit themselves to bands?". You could do this with ANYTHING...but with branding like "bandsintown" your potential market is 0.01 percent of what it could be. I strongly recommend getting a generic name (like myspace) and then:<p>1) Allow different product categories (Nearest coffeeshop, nearest book store that sells a certain book, nearest movie theatre playing a certain movie at certain hours, etc).<p>2) Allow different views of your model. Tag clouds strike me as a flash in the pan. Allow charts, bar graphs, pies, etc, etc.
Your interface rocks. Its instantly usable right when you visit the site. Took me just a few seconds and I had it figured out. Living in a very live music-oriented city I find this tool very useful.<p>I've just passed it on to a few friends here and their reactions are similar. Keep up the good work.<p>My only complaint is that I'm personally not a fan of tag clouds. May want to consider evolving the bands list into something more eye catching and readable. I also agree that you should consider modifying the name early so that you are better setup to expand into areas other than bands.
Whatever you use to automatically determine my location doesn't quite get it right; it thinks that I am in a small town that I vaguely recall as not being that far away from where I now live, so it's not the biggest deal.<p>Also, you may want to set distances to metric for people in countries where that's the standard. It's not at all impossible to get some users in e.g. Northern European countries without translating into the local language, but the size of a mile is not something people around here tend to be familiar with.
Pretty cool, but the randomly sized band names could use some work. For example, "the police" should probably be in a font large enough to me to read without squinting.