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Now with much more data! I submitted my hobby project Days Out Near Me a few weeks back. I've tried to take on a lot of the great feedback I've had and I've ma

Now with much more data! I submitted my hobby project Days Out Near Me a few weeks back. I've tried to take on a lot of the great feedback I've had and I've made a number of big improvements to how it works. The site's goal is to aggregate a lot of events & venues for days out into one searchable database. It now grabs data from National Trust, English Heritage, The Forestry Commission, Cadw, and National Museum Wales. I'm working on support for people to submit their own events/places (which is one of the primary goals of the site). I'd really like some more feedback and advice from people; what I've had so far has been great but I want as much as possible to help me improve the application and provide a great service to users. This is the first personal project I've launched and I'd be incredibly grateful for any/all feedback.

maxjaderberg 14y ago
just a design point - i find the black on dark green background quite uncomfortably hard to read on my screen!
- robotmay 14y ago
  You should have seen the inverse ;) I'm constantly playing with the design and I've also found it can be a bit bright; I'll be looking to refine it soon.
oracuk 14y ago
This is a great site, will likely be very handy for me over the summer. Couple of things that immediately jumped out as useful additions for my particular use case: 1) A 'family friendly' filter on places 2) A 'kids' filter on events 3) A filter based on distance 4) Even better a filter based on how long it takes to drive to the event or the place (maybe using Google Maps directions estimates?) I'm definitely going to use this over the next few weeks.
- robotmay 14y ago
  1/2: This is something I really want to implement, as finding family days out is one of my main goals. 3: In the works! 4: I've had this suggestion before and I think it'd be a great feature; I'm looking into it :D Thanks for the feedback!

maxjaderberg 14y ago

just a design point - i find the black on dark green background quite uncomfortably hard to read on my screen!

robotmay 14y ago
You should have seen the inverse ;) I'm constantly playing with the design and I've also found it can be a bit bright; I'll be looking to refine it soon.

oracuk 14y ago

This is a great site, will likely be very handy for me over the summer. Couple of things that immediately jumped out as useful additions for my particular use case: 1) A 'family friendly' filter on places 2) A 'kids' filter on events 3) A filter based on distance 4) Even better a filter based on how long it takes to drive to the event or the place (maybe using Google Maps directions estimates?) I'm definitely going to use this over the next few weeks.

robotmay 14y ago
1/2: This is something I really want to implement, as finding family days out is one of my main goals. 3: In the works! 4: I've had this suggestion before and I think it'd be a great feature; I'm looking into it :D Thanks for the feedback!