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tokioyoyo 3d ago

Which sources does it support? Discoverability is a huge problem for smaller events, as most get posted on IG, and it’s hard to even find them through IG.

I started relying on a mix of Muse/ChatGPT/Gemini depended on which data sources I want to combine, as they all seem to have special deals with different sources.

avree 3d ago

It seems to use a (probably AI generated) list of common event sites, Instagram, and a few hardcoded ones related to the region (like Makeout Room). There's no de-dupe so you'll see tons of the same event copied across Eventbrite/Tixr/etc.

invalidmonk 1d ago

there is indeed a dedupe implemented! if there are specific bugs with it, please send them my way :)

invalidmonk 3d ago

at the moment, there is a fan out across social media accts from a few different platforms, relying mostly on co-posting to discover new accounts.

any particular events that you'd flag that I could do some eval against?

druskacik 1d ago

I'm building a global classical music concerts database, I can offer you the data for your locations, feel free to connect :)

https://classicalbot.com/?city=San+Francisco,US

egonschiele 4d ago

This feels hard to maintain and keep up-to-date, but I would definitely use it! Great idea.

invalidmonk 3d ago

If an agent maintains it, is it hard? :D

TheSamFischer 3d ago

If it’s so easy, then please ask it to make the globe stop glitching out and flashing on scroll.

invalidmonk 3d ago

yessir!

TheSamFischer 18h ago

any update? It’s still glitching. I thought it was easy.

sugabush 2d ago

Heya I’m building something and nearly ended up building this on the side bc we need it. Great job. Would love to battle test it for you here.

invalidmonk 2d ago

That would be awesome - what geos do you need? Currently only have SF bay but easy for us to spin up other locales!

fathermarz 2d ago

I would definitely use this for https://littledaily.me

I think it would be a nice addition once you get a larger spread of data! Great idea

invalidmonk 2d ago

Awesome. What geos would be most useful?

shrinks99 3d ago

This is pretty cool, does it scrape Instagram? A lot of events where I live (Toronto) are posted there and not many other places. It's a real problem if you don't want to spend time on that app.

invalidmonk 3d ago

amongst a few other data sources :) is this something you'd use if we added toronto support?

shrinks99 3d ago

Personally, I don't have a project that requires it right now, but aspirationally maybe! I agree with another commenter that mentioned this is basically a public service that should exist similar to Wikidata / Musicbrainz.

I know this is currently a paid service you're trying to make happen and the scraping part is a reasonable amount of effort, but if you wanted to make the data source public, you could publish community.lexicon.calendar.event ATProto records and it would be very cool. At the very least, you could ingest it as a data source!

moralestapia 3d ago

x2 for Toronto.

There's hundreds of events happening every week but finding them takes a lot of time.

shrinks99 3d ago

There have been some good attempts to aggregate things, https://toronto-event-generator.pages.dev comes to mind.

invalidmonk 3d ago

queuing this up!

fellowniusmonk 3d ago

Solving this issue a core problem for humanity, and it goes hand in hand with the need for a public service.

I'm actually working to do this at ultra low cost as a public service like Wikipedia or musicbrainz.

I'll be publishing global costs to serve and letting people donate to support.

invalidmonk 3d ago

please share!

kylecazar 3d ago

Two unrelated monks working on the same thing? What are the odds

talon8635 3d ago

I had the same exact thought

invalidmonk 3d ago

events apis and green chartreuse

aleksiy123 3d ago

Cool idea and I really like the design of the landing page.

invalidmonk 3d ago

thanks!

lap248 4d ago

super slick! got results quickly and am getting more interesting and in the know kind of events than other tools

invalidmonk 3d ago

tysm! are there any geos you would like to see?

xyst 3d ago

I don’t want to be that guy, but why do I need a middleman for something llm do out of the box?

Forget the API. Even search engines have returned these results for years.

I can potentially see an angle with SLMs integrating with a self hosted version of this API, but it’s a bit niche.

1shooner 2d ago

>why do I need a middleman for something llm do out of the box?

Why use a token-burning middleman when someone has already done it for you?

invalidmonk 3d ago

Fine to be that guy! Let’s say you want to build a product that recommends concerts to people based on their music listening history. Do you want to pay for an expensive tool call and several second response time to surface answers back to the user? Yes of course you can build this yourself because SaaS is dead! Or someone else could maintain it for you :)

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