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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 by andrewgodwin »

callahad wrote: post #39
saurik wrote: 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 can't say much on the subject, at least not without official approval, but understand that the original Lanyrd team have not forgotten about the site; asking us to fix it isn't really giving us any new information (sadly).

If you want to make requests of any kind you're better off reaching out to Eventbrite directly.

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

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Post by cezarfloroiu »

cezarfloroiu wrote: post #28
znpy wrote: post #27

Nice idea, but buggy implementation: if I search for "Germany" nothing shows up. If I type "Berlin, Germany" (an event show up). You might want to fix this.

Yep. Keyword search is meant to tags only. I will extend it to search in everything tomorrow.

Fixed!

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

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Post by Too »

prawn wrote: post #43

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 ca…

While on the design topic. Use PNG instead of JPG for logos. They all bleed artifacts badly right now.

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

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Post by mcpherrinm »

Pretty cool! Still a lot of work on missing conferences, but hopefully that can self-correct if it becomes popular and organizers submit their conferences.

Most security conferences are missing. Black Hat, bssides (except canberra, apparently), defcon, toorcon, recon, usenix, chaos computer club congress, RSA.

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

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Post by cezarfloroiu »

ghgr wrote: post #56

The "Where" filter doesn't seem to work: Where: Germany "We couldn't find any results. Select other filters, or let us know if we miss a conference." Where: Cologne, Germany "Pirate Summit - Cologne, GermanySep 6 - 7"

Fixed, it was meant to search the exact location, while Keywords would allow a wider search. But you can use Location filter to do this as well, now.

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

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Post by asciimo »

cezarfloroiu wrote: post #17
raymondgh wrote: post #5

I've seen event aggregators come and go. Usually they die off when the maintainer gets bored of the events. Anything different planned here?

I promise to not get bored and to add more value to it soon;) Or to find a way to automate the maintenance while adding more value :)

I'm interested in your automation strategy. Many organizers like Fresh New Conference Sites every year, which means scraping for the dates and locations is likely to break each year.

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

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Post by dispo001 »

cezarfloroiu wrote: post #17
raymondgh wrote: post #5

I've seen event aggregators come and go. Usually they die off when the maintainer gets bored of the events. Anything different planned here?

I promise to not get bored and to add more value to it soon;) Or to find a way to automate the maintenance while adding more value :)

You could add...

A calendar with a tag cloud that can be toggled.

A world map with the same tag cloud.

Work backwards and make it into an archive of-

a conference about conferences.

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

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Post by GordonS »

andrewgodwin wrote: post #51
callahad wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 can't say much on the subject, at least not without official approval, but understand that the original Lanyrd team have not forgotten about the site; asking us to fix it isn't really giving us any new information (sadly). If you want to make requests of any kind you're better off reaching out to Eventbrite directly.

> attempts to reach out to Eventbrite folks are met with complete silence
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