On: Show HN: Yet another (faster) way to discover events nearby

[amit_m]

Very quick, simple UI - I like it! Where do you pull the event data from?

Btw, you should look into adding a custom icon when bookmarking on an iphone. At the moment it just shows a screenshot of the page.

[pat-jay → amit_m]

Thanks! And thx for noting the issue w/ the iphon icon - hope to fix that soon (thought it being already working :/ )... ...but screenshots might be nice too :D

The data primarily comes from several (bigger) platforms providing APIs like FB, Eventbrite, meetup.com, some artsy ones, TVmaze, and now event the LH API for flight data and OpenWeatherMap for weather data - yes you can even see "forecast events" of your local weather in about 5000 of the largest cities worldwide.

Last but not least there's a few hundred of small event providers that signed up themselves and post all different kinds of events.

[chextm → pat-jay]

How much data transformation did you have to do serialize the events from each platform?