Hi,<p>I made this prototype in a month.<p>Tailwind CSS + Php 1 index.php + Mysql 1 table.<p>Crawlers/Scrapers for extracting events have been something interesting for me last years. I spent so much time working on tech to extract them, machine learning, crawlers, scrapers, etc.... Poor results or too much results ... other story.<p>September I rethinked everything, human+automatic sources, and I got this.<p>airovic.com
Availabe in USA: San francisco, Los Angeles, NYC and Miami.
And EUROPE: Berlin, London, Madrd, Barcelona.<p>I'm fucking happy. I just made and completed my proposal for a crowdsourced agenda of things to do. MVP done. In some ways I'm free. (Spend 5 years with other prototypes, I even added bayesian, spotify api, flights and airbnbs ...) I'm happy with this last version, based on an excel of 400 urls, ~40 urls per city recommended by locals.<p>Btw, Events are not fake!! all real. 5 people working on this curating events, + 78 custom scrapers have got 30k legitimate events. airovic.com/stats.php you see databases.<p>I would appreciate any feedback.
My first website was in this same space, a concert search site called HearWhere (<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2008/10/27/hearwhere-lets-you-discover-live-music-in-your-neighborhood/" rel="nofollow">https://techcrunch.com/2008/10/27/hearwhere-lets-you-discove...</a>)<p>It had a bunch of stuff like artist popularity, because there were too many concerts in places like NYC to just give people a huge list to go through.<p>I think it's a great project to cut your teeth on. Lots of opportunity to learn in areas that you want to get better at.<p>I don't think it's a good business opportunity, but I'm happy to be proven wrong. This is an area that I get pitched on a lot (I'm not an investor, but try to help start-ups where I can), and even when I started HearWhere, SongKick started at the same time, raised $60m and didn't make a dent in the market.<p>I have no idea why you called it airovic. I don't know how that gets associated with the final product.
Neat. I did a similar project about ten years ago to learn Django... some time after Upcoming went away.<p>It's a great evergreen starter project, but probably not a sustainable business. A year or two later I watched an episode of Calacanis' TWIST where he gave feedback to another group attempting it and I think he articulated the main problem well. Something along the lines of "the beach is crowded, the water dirty…" In short, it's a never ending job, with lots of competitors and little return. Have to compete as well with places like reddit/facebook where the hard work is outsourced. Hard to get a community built just on that when most people don't look for things to do constantly.<p>That said if done right it would be valuable, maybe if publicly subsidized somehow.<p>(My old domain kpasa is probably available on the cheap, I liked the name. Don't know what airovic is or means. :-)