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Re: Show HN: A tech conference aggregator

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Just curious, which sign in provided did you attempt to auth with? edit: found out the issue. thanks for the heads up. All fixed.

I tried most of them. :) But it seems like you have fixed it already, good job. Out of curiosity, do you mind sharing what stack you're using?

Its Node/Express/Mongo and just vanilla JS on the client. Tried to keep it as simple as possible!

Re: Show HN: A tech conference aggregator

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Nice work. Feature request: track CFP dates and let people find conferences with upcoming CFP deadlines. BTW, you have "USA" and "United States" as two countries, might want to combine those.

Hey, thanks for checking it out. I like the CFP notification idea. Was planning to provide some sort of notification system for the conferences users save. And thanks for catching that, I need to clean the data a little bit.

It's really smooth, I checked to see if it was built in React given the speed.

On the same lines as the comment above, London and London Borough of Camden are listed separately too.

Edit: And you're printing some arrays into the browser console.

Re: Show HN: A tech conference aggregator

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This is great, I can see myself using this.

However, this suffers from being a SPA:

- URLs are not persistent, meaning if I cannot bookmark searches I care about.

- Outbound links are buttons for some reason instead of anchor tags. This means that ctrl-click does not work and will bring directly to the website.

Other things:

- I don't think it's easy to filter conferences which are within an acceptable distance. A map-based search a'la yelp would go a long way here.

Re: Show HN: A tech conference aggregator

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Hey, thanks for checking it out. I like the CFP notification idea. Was planning to provide some sort of notification system for the conferences users save. And thanks for catching that, I need to clean the data a little bit.

It's really smooth, I checked to see if it was built in React given the speed. On the same lines as the comment above, London and London Borough of Camden are listed separately too. Edit: And you're printing some arrays into the browser console.

Hey, its actually vanilla JS/Bootstrap Table. I need to spend some time cleaning up some console logs and a few other buggy things. Hopefully will push some changes tonight.

Re: Show HN: A tech conference aggregator

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post #14

This is great, I can see myself using this. However, this suffers from being a SPA: - URLs are not persistent, meaning if I cannot bookmark searches I care about. - Outbound links are buttons for some reason instead of anchor tags. This means that ctrl-click does not work and will bring directly to the website. Other things: - I don't think it's easy to filter conferences which are within an acceptable distance. A ma…

Thanks for the feedback! Now that I see some interest, I am going to spend a little time reworking the client side code to make it more user friendly.
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