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Show HN: A site that makes Spotify playlists of bands coming to town

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Re: Show HN: A site that makes Spotify playlists of bands coming to town

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Cool, but one question: did you send a feature-request to Spotify before you decided to make this?

That sounds time-consuming

Yeah, but if you make this and Spotify decides to do the same, then it's time-wasting.

Re: Show HN: A site that makes Spotify playlists of bands coming to town

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Very cool. Haven't been back to NYC in awhile but good to see the Rockwood Music Hall is still a hot venue. My main suggestion would be to populate the page with the Spotify data before having the user commit to signing into Spotify. Yes, have the call to action be at the top, but have the below-the-fold content be a list view of venues and artists. The map is nice but I don't think that's the most relevant view for NYC, since it's so easy to get around town between any popular venue.

My perspective is based on my assumption of, at the start of the week, what most people want to know but don't yet know. They know the venues, they just don't know (without tedious inspection) who is playing where. Maybe it'd make sense to have the genre of the acts more prominently shown. I'd be more immediately interested in looking at the list of alt rock bands who are in town that week, and then looking up the venues they'll be at. As opposed to having a list of venues and acts, and having to scan it to see if any of those acts are in the genres I prefer.

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