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I run a free hand-curated concert calendar in NYC[0] with a friend. It's all operated manually and we still end up with 15-20 great shows every night. If this w
by switz 5y ago
I run a free hand-curated concert calendar in NYC[0] with a friend. It's all operated manually and we still end up with 15-20 great shows every night. If this were automated or scraped, you'd have 250 events on your calendar per day.
Sure it might work if you just pick one venue, or a handful of artists. But it's not particularly helpful since you'll either be overwhelmed by spam (venue shows you're not interested in) or you'll inevitably be missing out on a lot of great events (since you're filtering on very specific parameters).
On our app, you can swipe on any show to add it to your phone's calendar instantly. 60 seconds daily or a few minutes each week and you can build your own subset calendar from our already curated calendar. It's honestly very efficient and low-tech.
I do subscribe to some remote calendars like my favorite sports team (NBA provides per-team calendar URLs). If you're in a smaller town with just a few venues, I bet you could do that too. For the privacy-conscious among us, you can always route them through Cloudflare Workers pretty easily.
[0] https://tappedin.live https://tappedin.live
- maxwelljoslyn 5y agoAlthough I am nowhere New York, I want you to know that I think your hobby project of curating a concert calendar is bitchin'. When viewing the website on my desktop computer(mac OS, Firefox), the "add to calendar" functionality that you mention being in the phone app is not, so far as I can tell, available. Perhaps I missed the button?