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Show HN: Eventivore - Our Submission to the 36 hour Hacka2thon
- brackin 15y agoDidn't really work for London. I live about an hour away but am fine with going to London when there's startup events. The 5 events shown in London are all either joke pages, local bar quizes or people's private events (Birthday Parties).
- mhseiden 15y agoIf you sign in with your Facebook account, the events that you are connected with will be added to our DB, drastically improving your results.
- brendino 15y agoFYI - Please click 'allow' when your browser prompts for geo-location. If you don't see many events around you, log in with Facebook and the system will fetch publicly-available events that are connected to your and your friends.
- vaf 15y agoThis is really cool, a nice style touch would be to be able to see what happening "this week" or "this weekend". If you sign in and your facebook event is set to private or closed does it aggregate it?
- unalone 15y agoI like this a lot! Not a fan of how you handle clicking on the pin icons, though; Google Maps uses those pins to open information in a bubble within the window, and having my click open a Facebook page bothered me. It's a shame that your map conveys no useful data except by opening new windows/tabs; possibly consider an interface that loads that FB data in a frame, possibly from the mobile site to conserve space?
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- rgbrgb 15y agoEvery time I click a pin, a pop up comes up in the map view then immediately closes. Am I using this incorrectly?
- mhseiden 15y agoIf you haven't logged in with Facebook, then that is most likely the issue. If you have, then it's probably a bug that we'll address in the future.
- GBKS 15y agoWill you eventually have to pay for usage of Google Maps (http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2011/10/introduction-of-usage-limits-to-maps.html http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2011/10/introduction...) if you go over 25000 views per day? I'm asking because I'm cooking up a similar concept, and the upcoming price increase of Google Maps makes me a bit hesitant to use them. The Google Maps Premier page, where my only option is to "Contact Sales" also doesn't seem very friendly to small sites and apps (http://www.google.com/enterprise/earthmaps/maps.html http://www.google.com/enterprise/earthmaps/maps.html).
- mhseiden 15y agoThis was a hackathon project, so we haven't looked that far into the future quite yet. If we reach that point, then we'll consider all of the existing Map APIs and how well they fit into our application.
- GBKS 15y agoMakes sense. I was just curious if anybody has already looked into what makes most sense for this type of usage.
- darklajid 15y agoMight be me, but w/ my Firefox, sitting in Tel Aviv, I end up with a disabled/grey map of the US of A and a modal dialog box that has no title / a ~crappy~ style and asks me for a US zip code. [1] Not for me? 1: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1194203/Eventivore.png http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1194203/Eventivore.png
- brendino 15y agoFor now we're pretty much only targeting the US (hence the zip code thing). We originally had browser geo-location, but disabled that for a few reasons. We will re-enable it soon.
- johncoltrane 15y agoZIP codes are far from being a US exclusivity. I suggest a "We don't offer our services outside of the USA for now. Leave us your email and country and we will notify you when…" somewhere in the ZIP code pop-in.
- brendino 15y agoUpdate: we ended up second place in the Ann Arbor Hacka2thon. GooseCast (ccgoose.com) took the top honors. Thanks for everyone's feedback so far!
- philgo20 15y agoWhere do the events come from?