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Show HN: Listen to a playlist of bands coming to your town
- ninetax 11y agoI would love some feedback on this thing I've made.
- manuw 11y agoFailed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 500 (Server Error) :(
- ninetax 11y agoShould be working now
- hello_there_you 11y agoTo start with, I can't get it do anything. I enter my city and dates, click "show me concerts" and then nothing. Maybe you're not handling zero results properly or something? Cool idea. EDIT: Remove comment on quotes, got confused and thought it was you guys down there, since they look so alike.
- ninetax 11y agoIt should be working now!
- vijayr 11y agoNot working for me either, on chrome/mac. Where are you getting the data from?
- ninetax 11y agoIt's working now. The data is coming from SongKick.
- frobozz 11y agoIt could do with providing some useful information when no results are found, and why it might not have returned any results (available regions, what is a "band", what is a "venue"). At the moment, when there are no results, the first thing you see is "How it works". This immediately prompts the thought "It doesn't". I entered a date range of 1st August to 30th November. In the town, there was a major music festival at the end of August, and a currently popular band will be playing in the town's biggest theatre at the end of November. I then tried London. apparently, for those four months, there are no bands playing in any venue in London, I even tried Wembley Arena. The city box autocompleted both of my attempts, which led me to assume that they were valid places in your database. You might consider restricting that autocomplete to only allow places that have events you know about.
- ninetax 11y agosorry, error messages are completely lacking at the moment. FWIW you "shouldn't" see any more error messages. The host was down and now it's not.
- ninetax 11y agoSo sorry everyone. I just posted this and fell asleep immediately. It was on a $5 DO server. Scaling up now...
- leoedin 11y agoIt doesn't work for me! When I put any city in (US or UK) the JS console shows "GET http://bandsoftheweek.com/location-then-events?location-query=Pittsburgh,+PA,+United+States http://bandsoftheweek.com/location-then-events?location-quer... 500 (Server Error)" I'm curious where you get your data from? I played around with a website for finding club nights a few years ago - the best source of data I could find was scraping Facebook. Unfortunately it was a bit unreliable. The biggest problem with trying to do this in an automated fashion is sorting out the crap from the actual gigs and events. It's easy to miss smaller things if you just use a single major API. Bandsintown seem fairly good at it, but have a pretty horrible interface.
- ninetax 11y agoSorry, my host crashed. It should be working now!
- karimhossenbux 11y agoLove the idea, but it's not working for me. I first thought that it might be my location (Barcelona, Spain), but then typing "New York" shows nothing either. Why not adding the location detection from the browser by default? If it's where I live, I might do not want to type it again and again. I might use it when it will work properly, big music fan here :P Maybe a personal detail, but I find weird the guitar in the middle of the name. Why not on the side? Cheers and well done on shipping something :)
- aembleton 11y agoThis is an appealing looking website but sadly it doesn't work for me. I'm running Firefox on OS X. I entered Manchester, UK from 09/09/2015 to 10/01/2015. When I clicked `Show me concerts` it displays `Loading...` then that disappears. No error message or information on why nothing has been shown. At this point I hazarded a guess that your data sources are US only, so I tried New York City. Again, this did not work. I then looked at what was going on, and your server is returning a 500 when making the GET request to http://bandsoftheweek.com/location-then-events?location-query=New+York+City,+NY,+United+States&start-date=2015-09-09T00:00:00%2B01:00 http://bandsoftheweek.com/location-then-events?location-quer... I think you should handle 500 responses better.
- ninetax 11y agoThanks for the feedback. It went down during the night. It's back up now though!
- dpanah 11y agoSite doesn't work!
- Gladdyu 11y agoI can imagine that it would not work for EU for some reason, but it even returns that there are no concerts in NYC for the entire month of September. This leaves me wondering, where did you get the quotes from that this service is the best way to find bands when it isn't working? Or is it just that HN has DDoS'ed your backend? :) EDIT: it also appears that you are lacking a #contact named anchor tag - the "contact us" button is not working.
- hellbanner 11y agohttps://magnifi.fm/ https://magnifi.fm/ has been doing this for a few years.
- irremediable 11y agoI really like the idea of this. It's a shame that it doesn't seem to work at the minute -- I'm guessing we gave it the HN hug of death. What data sources does it use?
- ninetax 11y agoHN hug of death indeed. Should be back up. It uses SongKick for the events.
- werber 11y agoI'm getting : Connection refused Description: Connection refused - But it sounds like a really awesome idea!
- ninetax 11y agoStill? It should be working now.
- Petefine 11y agothis worked fantastically for me. I didn't actually expect to use the site - I thought I'd just glance at it and close. But it was so slick that before I really noticed what was happening, Spotify was playing a list of lots of small bands playing around Brighton (UK) in the next week. Cheers for building it! Would be great if you could filter by genre somehow.
- ninetax 11y agoThanks mate! So glad to hear it! I really want to filter by genre, but it would be tough to do that real-time. Maybe if people could subscribe to a weekly playlist?
- api 11y agoThis is pretty awesome! Plus I see from the pictures of the co-founders that it comes with beard.