Show HN: Festival Hunt – Discover, filter and sort music festivals

Show HN: Festival Hunt – Discover, filter and sort music festivals
festivalhunt.com

How much of this did you manually input, and how much is scraped?

Keep up the good work!

For me the discoverability problem is another one: In recent years, I am listening to so many new bands and musicians, that I am totally loosing track of their names. It occurred to me more than one time, that someone was talking about a band, whose name I thought I never heard before, to later find out that they did a song or album, that I actually listened a lot. This also goes for festivals: I walk around at a festival and hear a familiar song playing somewhere and realize, that there is a band playing that I enjoy a lot, but whose name I didn't remember at all. I know other people have this problem too and I assume this is a by-product of the UX of streaming music (when you have to put a CD or vinyl on every time you want to listen to a band, ofc you learn the names much faster).

So what I actually need is a service, where I can paste a link to a festival website, which the service scrapes and does entity recognition on. Then the resulting list of bands should be matched against my Spotify history and tell me the matches (either because I actually listened to the bands, or by some means of collaborative filtering). I am thinking about doing this in script form for this years Fusion festival, but would also like to know, if more people are interested in a service like this.

I'm not really expecting to see all the small ones but would be nice to have the major ones at least.

Site looks nice and it's kind of comfortable to skim over the stuff and filter a bit. I'm not really a huge fan of the genre icons, some of them don't really make sense for me and look a bit like placeholders imho.

Other than that, good job and good luck.