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Re:Show HN: airovic.com ¿what are you doing this weekend? by mixmastamyk on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @03:02PM (#29098899)
Neat. I did a similar project about ten years ago to learn Django... some time after Upcoming went away.

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.

That said if done right it would be valuable, maybe if publicly subsidized somehow.

(My old domain kpasa is probably available on the cheap, I liked the name. Don't know what airovic is or means. :-)

Re:Show HN: airovic.com ¿what are you doing this weekend? by natzar on Thursday November 04, 2021 @03:00AM (#29104206)
Exactly. I see all competitors, google things to do .... But everyone is doing it wrong, I already know the 1000 ways of not getting this done right :D In the other hand, there are a lot of verticals, websites that shows info for just one category, or facebook/meetups/eventbrites low quality events, I will not be checking them anymore.

Airovic is a team of humans+robots that will do the work for you going to all these sites (+40 per city recommended by locals), and gathering all information to show it together.

I would like to show publicly the sources used, but I'm afraid website owners won't like it, even if I send them traffic for free..

I cross fingers so airovic.com is the first place you check when you go to bathroom , working now on infinite scrolling :D