Show HN: Discover and listen to artists performing in your city this week

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Post by alexyaseen » Fri, Sep 13, 2019, 4:31 PM UTC

Show HN: Discover and listen to artists performing in your city this week
discoverlocal.fm

Re: Show HN: Discover and listen to artists performing in your city this week

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Post by tmnarayan » Fri, Sep 13, 2019, 4:38 PM UTC

Hi HN!

I'm Trevor from Parabola.io. We're excited to show off Discover Local.

Music is really important to our team, and we look forward to helping others discover new artists and see more shows.

If you want to know a bit more about how we built this, I linked a post that goes into more detail down below. In short, we pull in concert data from Songkick, then compile song data and create playlists with Spotify before sending it all on to Webflow for display.

The best part is that Discover Local was built with absolutely no code over the course of a few afternoons!

Feel free to ask us any questions you might have!

https://medium.com/parabola-labs/discover-local-playlists-5f...

Re: Show HN: Discover and listen to artists performing in your city this week

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Post by bengotow » Fri, Sep 13, 2019, 5:16 PM UTC

Oh man this is exactly what I've been looking for. Spotify has the "Browse > Concerts" tab which shows upcoming concerts in your zip code for bands you've listened to on Spotify, but I've always wished I could just hit "Play."

Requested Nashville (c'mon, no Music City, USA??), look forward to giving this a spin!

Re: Show HN: Discover and listen to artists performing in your city this week

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Post by riffic » Fri, Sep 13, 2019, 5:27 PM UTC

This exists:

https://www.nextweeksplaylist.com/

Re: Show HN: Discover and listen to artists performing in your city this week

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Post by pugworthy » Fri, Sep 13, 2019, 5:33 PM UTC

I am learning to ignore any kind of application that has the "in your city" message. Basically it is, "in your city if it happens to be a major metropolis" - which is not where some of us live.

Re: Show HN: Discover and listen to artists performing in your city this week

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Post by TurkishPoptart » Fri, Sep 13, 2019, 5:42 PM UTC

Hi! I really like your site's design! Thanks for providing the Medium link too. Very surprised that no code was needed to build this; I inspected the page and saw over 5,000 lines of JQuery code in there. Well done.

Re: Show HN: Discover and listen to artists performing in your city this week

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Post by iosonofuturista » Fri, Sep 13, 2019, 5:49 PM UTC

pugworthy wrote: post #5

I am learning to ignore any kind of application that has the "in your city" message. Basically it is, "in your city if it happens to be a major metropolis" - which is not where some of us live.

I don't really get why you are being downvoted. Honestly I kind of expected a US only app, which is by far more common.

But I have to say this is actually even worse. It's not just discover "music" in "your city".

Looking a it, it actually means, discover "mainstream music, in super mainstream venues" in "your city". 9-NINE-9 Venues for Paris?

GO take a gander a New York, with this app you can "discover", ZZ-Top, Madona & The Who for instance. Wow, what I have I been missing.

Re: Show HN: Discover and listen to artists performing in your city this week

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Post by siempreb » Fri, Sep 13, 2019, 5:52 PM UTC

Hmm, it only works with a Spotify account which I don't have neither want..

Re: Show HN: Discover and listen to artists performing in your city this week

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Post by tmnarayan » Fri, Sep 13, 2019, 5:57 PM UTC

pugworthy wrote: post #5

I am learning to ignore any kind of application that has the "in your city" message. Basically it is, "in your city if it happens to be a major metropolis" - which is not where some of us live.

Thanks for taking a look! We decided to limit the initial launch and plan to add more cities next week, but that doesn't mean you can't have a playlist for your city now.

If you're interested, you can use the link below to clone the Parabola flow I used to create the playlists. You'll be able to create arbitrarily many playlists for cities of your choosing.

The only potentially sticky parts are that you'll need to apply for the Songkick API, and set up OAuth for your Spotify account, but otherwise it should just work out of the box.

https://parabola.io/api/clipboard/5feb0423aa594b08828aa04165...

Re: Show HN: Discover and listen to artists performing in your city this week

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Post by tmnarayan » Fri, Sep 13, 2019, 6:09 PM UTC

iosonofuturista wrote: post #7

pugworthy wrote: post #5

I am learning to ignore any kind of application that has the "in your city" message. Basically it is, "in your city if it happens to be a major metropolis" - which is not where some of us live.

I don't really get why you are being downvoted. Honestly I kind of expected a US only app, which is by far more common. But I have to say this is actually even worse. It's not just discover "music" in "your city". Looking a it, it actually means, discover "mainstream music, in super mainstream venues" in "your city". 9-NINE-9 Venues for Paris? GO take a gander a New York, with this app you can "discover", ZZ-Top, Mad…

Thanks for the honest feedback. We've been discussing this in the office, and we agree!

If I can convince the team, next week we'll implement some new logic in the Parabola flow so that we select more from the middle of the popularity graph of concerts rather than the top.