This is great. I had this exact same idea and half-coded it about 7 years ago (called it festmap). I wanted to also index the artists, but gave up when I realised how difficult it was to scrape.
Nice job, it's clear, and easy to use.
Show HN: Festival Hunt – Discover, filter and sort music festivals
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#12What's running the backend? Is it open source?
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#13I like the concept, and great CSS animation for the listings!
I miss Metro Design
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#14I like it. Since when are you live and which features do you plan next?
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#15Date formatting is backwards for a UK audience might be worth using the browsers locale
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#16Nice service to get an initial overview. I am a regular festival-goer, but I prefer to go to more "underground"-ish festival (for the lack of a better word). Those festivals don't necessarily want to be easily discoverable (i.e. the Fusion festival in Germany goes great lengths to suppress the hype around it). For me the discoverability problem is another one: In recent years, I am listening to so many new bands and…
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#17Backend seems down for me. Also the second filter date picker is positioned so its off my screen (23" standard monitor). Cool concept though and it seemed to work for others judging from the other HN comments
Re: Show HN: Festival Hunt – Discover, filter and sort music festivals
#18Nice service to get an initial overview. I am a regular festival-goer, but I prefer to go to more "underground"-ish festival (for the lack of a better word). Those festivals don't necessarily want to be easily discoverable (i.e. the Fusion festival in Germany goes great lengths to suppress the hype around it). For me the discoverability problem is another one: In recent years, I am listening to so many new bands and…
Songkick does exactly this. Links with various music and social media accounts, then matches concerts and festivals in areas that you specify. Whenever a concert is announced by an artist I listen to in a city I have selected, I get an email with details on where and when tickets are on sale.
Thanks for mentioning Songkick, I just registered there and looks like a good service overall. Reminds me of some of the last.fm functionality I was using in the past for that matter. What its still missing, is support for the functionality I described for festivals. Yes, they match festivals for you, but they don't tell you, which bands you should see there. Also they would have to update their database pretty often to i.e. work for Fusion festival, which announces the line-up only a few days prior to the festival, or to account for additions to/changes in festival line-ups.
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#19https://www.musicfestivalwizard.com
This one suits me nice. Relevant info through adequate filtering.
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#20It's very light on festivals outside of America. I didn't notice a single Dutch one. There are dozens and dozens, and that's just one country.
This needs to be a github or something where this information can be outsourced and then fetched in json format and displayed on this site.