Lanyrd (YC W11) launches session planner / coverage tracker for SXSW Interactive

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Post by simonw » Tue, Feb 22, 2011, 4:31 PM UTC

Lanyrd (YC W11) launches session planner / coverage tracker for SXSW Interactive
lanyrd.com

Re: Lanyrd (YC W11) launches session planner / coverage tracker for SXSW Interactive

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Post by simonw » Tue, Feb 22, 2011, 4:44 PM UTC

We're using an interesting combination of replicated Solr, Redis and MySQL for the core sessions-your-contacts-are-attending feature, I'd be happy to expand if anyone is interested.

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Post by alper » Tue, Feb 22, 2011, 4:45 PM UTC

Damn, I wish I was going this year when the program is finally in a format I can make sense of!

Re: Lanyrd (YC W11) launches session planner / coverage tracker for SXSW Interactive

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Post by zackattack » Tue, Feb 22, 2011, 4:46 PM UTC

I highly recommend everyone attend this talk: http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_IAP7538

Re: Lanyrd (YC W11) launches session planner / coverage tracker for SXSW Interactive

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Post by natbat » Tue, Feb 22, 2011, 4:50 PM UTC

zackattack wrote: post #4

I highly recommend everyone attend this talk: http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_IAP7538

On Lanyrd that session is http://lanyrd.com/2011/sxsw/scpxh/

Re: Lanyrd (YC W11) launches session planner / coverage tracker for SXSW Interactive

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Post by rokhayakebe » Tue, Feb 22, 2011, 4:50 PM UTC

I like this startup just for the simple fact that they are constantly putting it in front of people, and they also seem to have something interesting everything they do. But can someone tell me how you pronounce the name?

Re: Lanyrd (YC W11) launches session planner / coverage tracker for SXSW Interactive

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Post by Fjslfj » Tue, Feb 22, 2011, 4:52 PM UTC

simonw wrote: post #2

We're using an interesting combination of replicated Solr, Redis and MySQL for the core sessions-your-contacts-are-attending feature, I'd be happy to expand if anyone is interested.

That would be very interesting. Does it get updated in realtime and scale to millions of users?

Re: Lanyrd (YC W11) launches session planner / coverage tracker for SXSW Interactive

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Post by bbryant » Tue, Feb 22, 2011, 5:02 PM UTC

Fjslfj wrote: post #7

simonw wrote: post #2

We're using an interesting combination of replicated Solr, Redis and MySQL for the core sessions-your-contacts-are-attending feature, I'd be happy to expand if anyone is interested.

That would be very interesting. Does it get updated in realtime and scale to millions of users?

only on odd days of the week.

Re: Lanyrd (YC W11) launches session planner / coverage tracker for SXSW Interactive

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Post by simonw » Tue, Feb 22, 2011, 5:04 PM UTC

rokhayakebe wrote: post #6

I like this startup just for the simple fact that they are constantly putting it in front of people, and they also seem to have something interesting everything they do. But can someone tell me how you pronounce the name?

Thanks.

It's pronounced "lanyard" (well, lan-yerd) - like the thing you put around your neck with your badge hanging from it at a conference.

A surprisingly large number of people (at least surprising to us) have told us they don't know what a lanyard is!

Re: Lanyrd (YC W11) launches session planner / coverage tracker for SXSW Interactive

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Post by benwerd » Tue, Feb 22, 2011, 5:46 PM UTC

Lanyrd is my favorite startup of the last twelve months (aside from the one I'm working on, natch). It's well built, intelligently designed, incredibly responsive to its users, and has helped me discover a bunch of events I would otherwise have missed. It's what Upcoming should have evolved into.