Show HN: A tech conference aggregator • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: A tech conference aggregator

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Post by dajohnson89 » Sun, Nov 13, 2016, 10:09 PM UTC

How do you get the data?

Re: Show HN: A tech conference aggregator

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Post by zeta_ » Sun, Nov 13, 2016, 10:31 PM UTC

StriverGuy wrote: post #16

zeta_ wrote: post #13

Make the website button open in a new tab, or at least use an element instead of a (you can still use the .btn classes from Bootstrap in elements if you didn't know)

Definitely will switch that up. Thanks!

I think that a filter by technology/subject would be nice too

Re: Show HN: A tech conference aggregator

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Post by 2pointsomone » Sun, Nov 13, 2016, 10:37 PM UTC

You know what would be useful? Ticket price.

Re: Show HN: A tech conference aggregator

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Post by pheouk » Sun, Nov 13, 2016, 10:55 PM UTC

It would be nice if the start/end date could be a range it seems tied to a specific start date for a conference, rather than any conferences starting after this date

it would be nice to see the fields filter down as other parameters are defined, if i set USA as the country, I should just see cities hosting conferences in the USA

Love how clean and quick it is though

Re: Show HN: A tech conference aggregator

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Post by StriverGuy » Sun, Nov 13, 2016, 10:57 PM UTC

2pointsomone wrote: post #23

You know what would be useful? Ticket price.

I have this for a portion of the dataset. Will definitely look to add it soon.

Re: Show HN: A tech conference aggregator

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Post by chillydawg » Sun, Nov 13, 2016, 11:01 PM UTC

shubb wrote: post #19

Regular conference goers - what conferences would you recommend if you had to pay for your own tickets?

Normally the smaller stuff. Eg for Python/data science in London there's a meetup.com miniconf that gets hosted in various company offices and you just sign up and turn up and listen to some cool people talk about whatever mad science they've been up to. Good places to find jobs/people too.

Re: Show HN: A tech conference aggregator

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Post by antif » Sun, Nov 13, 2016, 11:12 PM UTC

Date sorting is broken--I'm seeing the following in 'descending' order:

  November 6, 2016
  November 5, 2017
  November 4, 2016
  November 30, 2016
  November 3, 2016
  November 29, 2016

Re: Show HN: A tech conference aggregator

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Post by dwightgunning » Sun, Nov 13, 2016, 11:32 PM UTC

detaro wrote: post #9

bastih wrote: post #7

Looks similar to: http://lanyrd.com/

Which from what I've heard is sadly more or less dead (requests that require human attention are not processed, long downtimes)

Was acquired by Eventbrite a few years back. If I remember it was only a 1-2 person operation anyway.

Never quite lived up to the potential in my mind (or perhaps there just wasn't a big enough pain / market).

Still I like and respect it. I look at it weekly when I curate the Amsterdam startup digest.

Re: Show HN: A tech conference aggregator

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Post by orasis » Mon, Nov 14, 2016, 12:15 AM UTC

I don't know what half of these conferences are. A brief description for each would be helpful.

Re: Show HN: A tech conference aggregator

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Post by Ursium » Mon, Nov 14, 2016, 12:56 AM UTC

V. cool, but would be great to be able to use it as a tool of discovery: list topics covered using tags, and indicate rough # of attendees (I know some people prefer to only attend larger events)