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Re: Show HN: Festival Hunt – Discover, filter and sort music festivals

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Post by dylan604 » Tue, Apr 09, 2019, 5:07 PM UTC

dzsofa wrote: post #22

I just have a tiny comment: you seem to have quite a few console logs left in the code (for debugging reasosns perhaps?), but it would look nicer if you could remove them. :)

I've wondered about this myself. There are times when I debug with console.log/.error during the dev cycle with potentially sensitive data that I would definitely remove before deploying. There are other times when I have output that just kind of lets me know where things are during execution where I've had the internal discussion of leaving them in or not. I usually lean on removing them all. However, I've had the console open on several large sites, and they are constantly filing up the console with output. It seems like it is mainly the 3rd-party libraries that sites include. Even Amazon's home page outputs content to the console.

However, it is oddly satisfying for me to see the console full of warnings from Firefox of 'Request to access cookie was blocked' or 'Loading failed for the with source googleadservices or doubleclick' type of messages.

Re: Show HN: Festival Hunt – Discover, filter and sort music festivals

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Post by stevenicr » Tue, Apr 09, 2019, 5:23 PM UTC

conflagration wrote: post #5

Nice service to get an initial overview. I am a regular festival-goer, but I prefer to go to more "underground"-ish festival (for the lack of a better word). Those festivals don't necessarily want to be easily discoverable (i.e. the Fusion festival in Germany goes great lengths to suppress the hype around it). For me the discoverability problem is another one: In recent years, I am listening to so many new bands and…

Similar issues here a while back, now when I find a show like dj sets from Miami or Vegas on youtube I immediately look for comments that show the tracklist, or majority of it. Those who post those in comments are so helpful. I've copy pasted several.

Now I need a script to suck in all the tracks I've checked with shazaam, and tracklists I've copy pasted into notepad, and bookmarked via chrome and liked on di.fm combine them, then spit out a spreadsheet showing cost to buy single mp3s and associated albums. I would buy much more music and have is accessible when mobile more often.

Re: Show HN: Festival Hunt – Discover, filter and sort music festivals

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Post by pmohun » Tue, Apr 09, 2019, 7:47 PM UTC

The very first result, Coachella, is listed as $300. Having attended multiple times (and going again in 3 days), I can assure you that the actual cost is much higher.

It makes me skeptical of the rest of the information displayed for festivals I am less familiar with.

Re: Show HN: Festival Hunt – Discover, filter and sort music festivals

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Post by dawhizkid » Tue, Apr 09, 2019, 8:11 PM UTC

I know new social networks are so 2010, but I honestly can’t believe there isn’t a mainstream social app that shows popular upcoming live events (concerts, festivals, events , etc) near you or elsewhere with an RSVP function to see who is going (and thus see events that are trending or popular and upcoming).

Eventbrite and Facebook sort of do this but neither have event features that are really optimized for this IMO.

Would definitely use that all the time.

Re: Show HN: Festival Hunt – Discover, filter and sort music festivals

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Post by dokem » Tue, Apr 09, 2019, 10:25 PM UTC

cr1895 wrote: post #8

It's very light on festivals outside of America. I didn't notice a single Dutch one. There are dozens and dozens, and that's just one country.

Dozens!

Re: Show HN: Festival Hunt – Discover, filter and sort music festivals

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Post by minimalist » Wed, Apr 10, 2019, 2:05 AM UTC

dawhizkid wrote: post #34

I know new social networks are so 2010, but I honestly can’t believe there isn’t a mainstream social app that shows popular upcoming live events (concerts, festivals, events , etc) near you or elsewhere with an RSVP function to see who is going (and thus see events that are trending or popular and upcoming). Eventbrite and Facebook sort of do this but neither have event features that are really optimized for this IMO…

Last.fm does this and has existed since the early 2000s. It had such a nice, active community in the audioscrobbler days. The community is a ghost of its former self after the sell-out to CBS, departure of the founders, redesigns that were reviled by the community, and advent of spotify, which slowly implemented many of the features that made last.fm useful.