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- justinclift 11y agoAny chance this is your kind of thing? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11093339
- ljsocal 11y agocreate an app that allows me to find out what fun, interesting events are happening locally in the next few hours - days. Let me filter by my interests and distance. Make intelligent suggestions based upon artificial intelligence.
- dozzie 11y agoTopic map engine that is usable in a database fashion and doesn't depend on some memory hog (no JVM, no MongoDB, no MySQL or PostgreSQL).
- justinclift 11y agoSQLite suitable?
- dozzie 11y agoThis one yes, very suitable.
- justinclift 11y agoDo something like this, but actually working: https://github.com/justinclift/EventsMap So a person can see what events are happening in a specific area, in a given time range. It should be: * Visual, using a map service background like the above * Have time range slider (indicting start and stop of time range) * Use the public data sets of conference/events. There are a few around that show up with simple searching: * O'Reillys has this: https://feeds.feedburner.com/oreilly/events * Red Hat has this: https://github.com/OSAS/rh-events * Eventbrite likely has relevant feeds too (lots of data) For a revenue source, you could look at adding planning capabilities into it, direct booking, and reminders. Potentially also group bookings, and/or fees for usage. For companies that want to send X number of devs to conferences over the next 6-12 months, having a good system to know which ones to go to, and accurately track/remind/etc people... is worth money. Maybe not super rich quantities... but it's unlikely negligable either. :)