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My first app: wat2do, a daily map of events in SF

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Re: My first app: wat2do, a daily map of events in SF

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Post by karlmageddon »

I'm a student at General Assembly and this is 1/2 of my first project. The other half is an API I built that scrapes http://sf.funcheap.com (one of my favorite sites ever) once a day for events and gives me a JSON to use when I call it.

Feedback/suggestions/bug reports are totally welcome.

Re: My first app: wat2do, a daily map of events in SF

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Post by karlmageddon »

johnbroccoli wrote: post #3

This is fantastic, nice work! Are you planning on adding any ability for people to add their own events directly to the map?

Thank you so much! That's definitely in the pipeline somewhere but I'm trying to add more curated events via other API's + Facebook. The last time I thought about how I'd handle user submissions I ended up staring at a wall for half an hour trying to think of how to eventually get users to share events which led to more possible features like a live feed and, and...

Re: My first app: wat2do, a daily map of events in SF

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Post by johnbroccoli »

karlmageddon wrote: post #5
johnbroccoli wrote: post #3

This is fantastic, nice work! Are you planning on adding any ability for people to add their own events directly to the map?

Thank you so much! That's definitely in the pipeline somewhere but I'm trying to add more curated events via other API's + Facebook. The last time I thought about how I'd handle user submissions I ended up staring at a wall for half an hour trying to think of how to eventually get users to share events which led to more possible features like a live feed and, and...

Awesome.

For what it's worth, I also look at this: http://squidlist.com/ from time to time for events around the bay area.

Re: My first app: wat2do, a daily map of events in SF

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Post by karlmageddon »

johnbroccoli wrote: post #7
karlmageddon wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you so much! That's definitely in the pipeline somewhere but I'm trying to add more curated events via other API's + Facebook. The last time I thought about how I'd handle user submissions I ended up staring at a wall for half an hour trying to think of how to eventually get users to share events which led to more possible features like a live feed and, and...

Awesome. For what it's worth, I also look at this: http://squidlist.com/ from time to time for events around the bay area.

Now that is actually in the immediate pipeline :) Expect to see squidlist events appear on the map soon!
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