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Re: Show HN: I built a database of tech conferences to know what to attend to next

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post #22

Suggestion: Add the conferences talk submission info and deadlines, so you can use it to find out what conferences to talk at.

This would be a great feature for me too. I'm looking for conferences I can apply to speak at, and it's often kind of difficult to extract basic info like this from event sites.

It would also be good to see similar info for conferences that have exhibitor booths.

Re: Show HN: I built a database of tech conferences to know what to attend to next

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Just some design thoughts that you could consider:

I think you could better separate the actionable filter items from the branding parts. So, in a thin top tier, have your brand top left, "Find conferences near you" in the middle, and perhaps "Add a conference" top right. This will give you more room to fit conferences on screen - at the moment it's a bit sparse - 500px before I get to the listing itself.

Then you can have the filters and search boxes in their own area and have more room to make it really obvious that their use impacts the list below without the line "Know a conference..." in between.

You could consider updating "Upcoming conferences" with info pertaining to the search. e.g., "Conferences in Jul-Sep 2018".

I can appreciate that "18" alone saves space, but my first thought was that it was September 18th. You could use 2018 or '18 maybe?

Put a max width on the conference icons and a margin on the right - the widest ones are butting up against their names.

Re: Show HN: I built a database of tech conferences to know what to attend to next

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post #20

How is this different from http://lanyrd.com/ ?

Lanyrd is a dead site walking. They were acquired by Eventbrite ~4 years ago, and haven't seen any meaningful updates since May 2014. Their social media accounts have been completely dead for two years. The site has frequent uptime and spam issues, and attempts to reach out to Eventbrite folks are met with complete silence. And yet, it still exists, running along with juuust enough inertia to crowd out any potential…

I'll be catching up with one of the Lanyrd team at a conference in a couple of weeks; I'll ask him about it.

Re: Show HN: I built a database of tech conferences to know what to attend to next

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Well done! this is one of the best "Show HN" posts I've seen. Solving a simple & actual problem, and not needing to specify what language or framework you used as justification for it. I really wish more posts were like this.

I wish I could click a keyword in a conference list and then see more conferences with that keyword.

Also, the top date menu is confusing for me. I actually thought for a while the 18 was for Day of month, not year. But at least year makes more sense than some ranges that would end mid-month.

I tinkered and came up with two alternatives (I like the bottom one more) http://i.imgur.com/P0sz1aA.png

Keep up the great work!

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