Some feedback: this needs some indicator as to popularity/who's going/why to go. The London page, while full, doesn't give the user any indication of why to care about any particular event. This made me miss Plancast, though. :)
@dshan as long as we can fetch all this data (and we can), then we can work with that. Event Hunt is a list, we don't want to let people sign up on it for event and give another source of registrations to organizers, they won't use it anyway.
We definitely can we do more in that space, but lets not complicate things now :)
@anujadhiya great idea! also once we will have tags, then you will be ble to filter by lets say pitching opportunity, accelerators deadlines, workshops, free office hours (legal, marketing,...) so you can get most out of the city where you are at :)
@anujadhiya@sotak Tags are a great idea. Could be useful for @producthunt too. I'd love to see a search bar and the ability to look at February events (perhaps there aren't any posted yet?).
@pedrogastal there are events in the queue for February, but not yet published, might be worth adding better pagination in a calendar style view too :) // @producthunt@anujadhiya
Nice :) Several people have asked if we were going to expand to event discovery.
I just submitted the information for our Product Hunt happy hour this Thursday (so far 2k+ RSVP'd).
@sotak there are a ton of sites (many skeletons now) that have tackled this space. What's your goal with Event Hunt and why will this work where others haven't?
@rrhoover great! wish I was in SF :)
Event Hunt's goal is in simplicity, automation and minimal maintenance. We need a centralised curated place, where the events will be streaming itself through feeds from other services. Curators can then just go through the imported events and publish them if they like and find appropriate. They don't need (in most cases) to add events one by one which is a time consuming task.
For end-users, they will see all the events in one place, they can easily access the list from mobile, they can add to bookmarks and feed bookmarks into calendar.
Later adding machine learning, that will for example learn from curators behaviour which events are popular and have good history of being published, so they will be published automatically without curators.
Also, I have been asked by friends to which events I am going to, if I could just share my public page with events I am attending, so they can join, even better. :)
Less work, more events to attend, easy to read list ^_^
And we can go a lot further with social features later
Ah, went too far with this I guess. :)
@sotak haha, nice. I like the simplicity.
One quick (unsolicited) piece of feedback: beware of trying to enhance largely community-driven experiences with machines. When you say "machine learning algorithms," a flag raises for me. Often times it's the "human" context around the curation that's most interesting to people.
@rrhoover totally agree! it would be more for adding tags based on the content for curators to approve, publishing might be dangerous - I am aware the curators are the driving force behind this. People liked the solution before because of me posting relevant events that I liked, machine can't replace that, more over, machine won't know if the event is no longer interesting if they can't attend :)
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