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Show HN: I built a database of tech conferences to know what to attend to next
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Re: Show HN: I built a database of tech conferences to know what to attend to next
#72If you're looking for additional sources of events, you could try adding the events from http://techmeme.com/. They have a sidebar which is always current. They also have: http://www.techmeme.com/events which would add a lot of flow.
Re: Show HN: I built a database of tech conferences to know what to attend to next
#73I'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 :)
The tool is super useful. However, your search could be bether with respect to geography. Let me explain ..
I am in the Bay area, and I'm interested in all local tech conferences. Seems like if I search for SF, I only see conferences in that city. What would be useful is to gather commutable geos together. When I was on the east coast, NY, NJ, CT and MA conferences were all reachable in a day trip, which is why that was my region of interest.
I think someone did this for hackathons too but not sure if that died off. Another idea is to link to previous iterations of conferences.
Final thought .. you could mine ACM/IEEE conferences .. those are tech-relevant.
Re: Show HN: I built a database of tech conferences to know what to attend to next
#74Some things I would like:
- See fees (including deadlines for each phase ?)
- Subscribe (by email) to tags (new conferences with a certain tag) and/or ending of Early Bird phase (or other phases)
- Have rss feed based on tag(s)
- See similar conferences (based on tags)
- Button to add a conference to my calendar (or maybe have Google calendar feed, based on tags)
- Filter by region; I do not mind flying a few hours, meaning anywhere in Europe for me. But I will never go to the US and not easily to Asia.
Re: Show HN: I built a database of tech conferences to know what to attend to next
#75Some things I would like: - See fees (including deadlines for each phase ?) - Subscribe (by email) to tags (new conferences with a certain tag) and/or ending of Early Bird phase (or other phases) - Have rss feed based on tag(s) - See similar conferences (based on tags) - Button to add a conference to my calendar (or maybe have Google calendar feed, based on tags) - Filter by region; I do not mind flying a few hours,…
Really good points, thank you. Will add them soon:)
Re: Show HN: I built a database of tech conferences to know what to attend to next
#76Well 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 Da…
Thanks a lot! Tags will be clickable soon & will review the top menu to make it clearer. Thanks for your feedback, appreciated!
Re: Show HN: I built a database of tech conferences to know what to attend to next
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Haha a conference of about conferences is def. not in my mind. But everything else you suggested, it is! Thanks!
Re: Show HN: I built a database of tech conferences to know what to attend to next
#78This will sound like a strange suggestion, but think about collecting people's emails and sending out an email every quoter or so with a list of conferences. Of all the newsletters I wouldn't mind this one at all.
It isn't :) It is basically a must do before any launch, but I did not expect so much interest to be honest so I only focused on the core functionality first.
Re: Show HN: I built a database of tech conferences to know what to attend to next
#79How about sorting by deadline for submissions?
Re: Show HN: I built a database of tech conferences to know what to attend to next
#80Great idea go for it! lanyrd.com is long dead without any good replacement. I'm not too sure why they keep the website up. What it does it only confuses people. I know that this probably out of their control right now. Eventbrite killed the really good website. The service they had was solving real problem. Now you are solving real problem. Good luck!
Thanks a lot, all this feedback gives me wings :)