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Re:Show HN: Yet another (faster) way to discover events nearby by mattmanser on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @08:14AM (#11166429)
I don't understand why you're so down on yourself in the title? Yet another? What other ones are there? It's not like it's a saturated market. Like the options in my city (Nottingham) is pretty sparse. Leftlion event listings (poorly curated, filled with boring 'club' events and gallery shows that are listed every single day because they last months), experience nottinghamshire (seems broken) and skiddle (crap).

Be proud to get something done and out there! And finished!

I've always thought the big problem in these things is curation, like for me I'm just getting a random dump of stuff near by. Are you scraping this from facebook or something as the events seem ok, but I could see you getting overwhelmed by crap.

I think it needs a lot of love UX wise, look at this event for example:

https://etrigg.com/event/an-invitation-to-discuss-travels-tr...

At a glance, where the hell is it being hosted? Why did you put that at the bottom not the top? Why put a start and end time with dates? Why is there a category called 'Universal' in the page, if it's a catch all, don't display it.

The site is also almost entirely devoid of colour, it looks like a github page or something, not something fun to do with fun events.

Technically it seems good, but I think you need a lot more thought and prettying in the UX.

Re:Show HN: Yet another (faster) way to discover events nearby by PatentTroll on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @10:16AM (#11167308)
Event discovery is a well known startup trope. Try pitching anything around event discovery to an investor, you will see their eyes roll. Is that fair? Probably not. I think what OP is doing is fantastic, and I second your encouraging words.
Re:Show HN: Yet another (faster) way to discover events nearby by trill1 on Friday February 26, 2016 @06:23AM (#11180870)
Yep, I expected to see nothing for Phnom Penh, Cambodia, but there were actually quite a few useful results. It's a least comparable to the one hand-curated events site for Phnom Penh that I know of.

I did have some odd UX issues with the filter button. Sometimes I couldn't tell if it was responding to my input, and once or twice it reset the options I selected back to what they were previously. But, keep going OP!