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

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Post by dclowd9901 »

I made an app like this a long time ago called "Showhopping". Its intention was to get people out to more music events by helping them discover artists similar to the ones they liked. I really just earnestly felt like people weren't going to enough music events, and missing out on a great activity to engage in!

I eventually ran out of steam on it when BandsInTown and others joined the scene, but it was great fun for a while, and I even ended up on lifehacker at some point. Good luck with your venture!

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

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Post by bpchaps »

ryanisnan wrote: post #17
tmnarayan wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 ap…

Seems totally reasonable. An alternate way they could have given you feedback is: Seems like a idea, be interested if it was in my area.

What's wrong with honest feedback against clearly outrageous marketing? Serious question. Not trying to troll.

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

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Post by jon1628492 »

This looks pretty nice! But I’m curious how you match the artist up to Spotify; for instance, Whitney (https://open.spotify.com/artist/32aUoW94mJ7xTJI7fG0V1G) is playing in Austin this week but you link to Whitney Houston (https://open.spotify.com/artist/6XpaIBNiVzIetEPCWDvAFP).

That being said I like it and could see myself using this!

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

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Post by slouch »

hnruss wrote: post #19

This appears to be limited to well-known musicians. IMO those musicians don't need the help-- people are already finding their shows just fine. There's a ton of great musicians out there that want to be discovered by wider audiences, but are regularly ignored by various music directories like this. Seems like a lost opportunity, considering that they're probably more willing to pay for inclusion than already well-kno…

right, songkick and bandsintown doing just fine and work in any city

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

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Post by pugworthy »

matchbok wrote: post #13
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.

Why is it the app's fault you live in the middle of nowhere?

I live in a 58k population US town with a large facility for a Fortune 50 company and a decent research university. We are surrounded by green space and I can be at the beach or in the mountains in an hour. I can bike to work and it’s about 5-10 more minutes to my commute.

I’m exactly where I want to be.

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

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Post by pugworthy »

tmnarayan wrote: post #10
iosonofuturista wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

This is where crowd sourcing has value over curation. Let me tell you about this awesome little regional jazz ensemble playing down the street that others don’t know about.

You certainly can offer crowdsourced vs curated content, but if all you ever offer is curated then you can only scale so much.

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

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Post by Ductapemaster »

The design of this site seems identical to the graphic design that Adafruit used for their I2C address compilation advertisement art[0]. I don't want to jump to the conclusion that this is a ripoff - is this a standard design template that someone offers?

[0] https://learn.adafruit.com/i2c-addresses/overview

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