Re:Show HN: airovic.com ¿what are you doing this weekend?
by pedalpete on Thursday November 04, 2021 @06:51PM
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Yup, sounds like a very similar journey as I had. Are you in Papua? I'm in Sydney, Australia.
Agree the monthly cost is low, I was spending maybe $70/month back in the day (linode servers), I'm sure it's even less now.
Looking a bit closer. Your homepage is nice, but you're probably going to need something more engaging on your results pages to get people clicking. It's a lot of text right now.
Check out City of Syndey's What's On site for some inspiration https://whatson.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/?time=weekend
Grow & Sell is the plan hey?? Have you seen any other start-ups that have done this that have been acquired? If you're looking at SongKick, they aren't a good example. Raised spent $60M to get purchased for < $10M from what I understand. So the creators probably got nothing.
I already did complications version of this concept in the past, this time was like the final, Flash mode, do it, try it hard one more and time.
Technically, I felt in love with this project. Natural language processing + scraping + data mining and maintenance ... So, this time was from other angle, 1 index.php + 1 mysql events, and focus on getting data right, quickly, 1 monoth.
Songkick is giving me popularity, the only thing I add is event views (each visitor of an event +1). But I already added bayesians, apis, and shit that made me never ship. This time I want to focus really on user experience and quality data. Be patience and work a lot on SEO.
Grow it and sell it is the plan. The monthly costs are easy to absorb, and I'm the first I need something like this.
Airovic means tourist info in Papua.