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On a somewhat related note, if you make a website for a specific event on the top of the first page, clearly visible, you should have: * The date and time of the event * The event location * Price * Any other relevant information (dress-code, what to bring, etc) or at least a prominent link to said information
I recently started building http://minivite.com to address that problem.
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upcoming? Wasn't that the startup. yahoo bought it. ( http://upcoming.yahoo.com/ ) I think the problem is structural - the money flows from gig promoters, hence the interface is not built for the user's desires.
upcoming was bought by yahoo in 2005. I totally agree that the sites are built for the promoters and not the users. The biggest problem I see how can this be built for the users and make money at the same time, any ideas?
Other commenters raise interesting points as to why this problem is harder than others - events have so many niches, there's a new set of them for each new set of users. And unlike on stackoverflow, in a month all of that data has lost almost all of its value and you need new data.
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Yes neilk, awesome. Let me also add... I am not convinced that very many people care about discovering new events in the first place, at least not events that don't have an immediate impact on one's social status. People learn about most events from their friends or their existing communities. This should not seem strange because people become friends with one another (or join communities) through having aligned inte…
"""I am not convinced that very many people care about discovering new events in the first place, at least not events that don't have an immediate impact on one's social status.""" My definition of an event is: A social gathering of my friends, or friends of friends. I don't care about random trivia nights, but I might check them out if my immediate friends are going to them. I believe that an "event community" is a…
People who have just moved to a new place do a lot of that, soon they get a new peer group. Finding the right events is easier than it once was with online tools, but still not trivial.
Songkick.com is an events site, for live music events around the world, and they're awesome. They've even got a plugin for iTunes to recommend you gigs based on what you listen to. (I no longer work there, but their product looks better than ever.)
So if they can't get it right, for a limited scope of live music events, it is clearly as tough to get right as others say it is.