I love what you're doing here: creating a centralized, universal interface for all kinds of sessions. I hate the way 95% of people "organize" their event information.
I hope Lanyrd gets enough traction to fix that.
Lanyrd (YC W11) launches session planner / coverage tracker for SXSW Interactive
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Re: Lanyrd (YC W11) launches session planner / coverage tracker for SXSW Interactive
#12I love what you're doing here: creating a centralized, universal interface for all kinds of sessions. I hate the way 95% of people "organize" their event information. I hope Lanyrd gets enough traction to fix that.
Thanks - we're very keen on providing permanent, archived URLs for things. Conference websites have a terrible habit of going offline after 11 months so they can put up the site for the next year's event.
Re: Lanyrd (YC W11) launches session planner / coverage tracker for SXSW Interactive
#13"The infamous party scene is already well addressed by an abundance of other startups."
- Is there a list of these apps?
Re: Lanyrd (YC W11) launches session planner / coverage tracker for SXSW Interactive
#14We'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.
Would love to learn more about that
Re: Lanyrd (YC W11) launches session planner / coverage tracker for SXSW Interactive
#15"The infamous party scene is already well addressed by an abundance of other startups." - Is there a list of these apps?
Plancast comes to mind.
Re: Lanyrd (YC W11) launches session planner / coverage tracker for SXSW Interactive
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
That would be very interesting. Does it get updated in realtime and scale to millions of users?
only on odd days of the week.
On even days it works in the future, and scales to 1000/i/ users. SimonW, well connected with the timelords, or Harry Potter... not sure which ;-)
Re: Lanyrd (YC W11) launches session planner / coverage tracker for SXSW Interactive
#17Nat & Simon, if this is the sort of site that you're putting together for free for SXSW, I'd love to see what you'd put together for another big conference that paid you guys ;-D
Should be even more awesome-er when you've got the location details hooked into the sessions - at the moment it's still a bit crazy ("Oh, I want to go see this and this, they are 10mins apart... but are they on opposite sides of the city?!").
Plus I'm waiting to see what the SocialTies app looks like when that launches... another Brighton tech couple... awesomeness!
Re: Lanyrd (YC W11) launches session planner / coverage tracker for SXSW Interactive
#18We'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?
No idea about millions, but I remember Simon saying something like it running happily at (IIRC) 60second intervals. Hopefully he'll elaborate.
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#19We'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.
Simon, would love to hear more about replicated solr. Did you roll this yourself?
Re: Lanyrd (YC W11) launches session planner / coverage tracker for SXSW Interactive
#20This looks great. The "recap" email after SXSW with videos, photos, etc from the sessions sounds interesting...how often does Lanyrd send these types of emails?