Caveat: you are clearly much more proficient at scraping than I am. It's an enviable skill.
What I'm about to say is pretty fuzzy, but I have noticed that services based on scraped datasets trend towards being predictably shittier than services lovingly harvested by a human. Obviously it's domain dependent but my bias is that it seems like scapers pick up a lot of crap; in music, it'd be the singer-songwriter showcases that literally even the performers families don't want to go to more than once a year.
I would filter out a service sending me 100+ mediocre, repetitive listings every week. I would consider paying for 5-6 human curated listings that strike a blend between "don't miss Judd Apatow" and "you might like Little Esther" up-and-comers. It's the human giving a shit that is providing value. I am someone that if I go to something I don't love, it is far worse than if I didn't leave the house.
So, yeah. It's all going to come down to what kind of customer you want. O(1000) comedy consumption sounds like someone who doesn't care how they are entertained so long as they don't have to contemplate how small they are in the universe. Like, if someone in my circle said "let's go see some comedy!" I'd say "oh, who?" and if they looked at me perplexed and said, "I dunno... comedy!" I would consider this grounds to reevaluate this relationship.
"Let's go see some music!" "What band?" "Oh, just some music!" gun
Anyhow. :)
And hey, if you're moving fast and love Vue, keep rocking it. I just meant... use Rails. Use PHP. Use anything that emits HTML that doesn't need to be rendered in JS on the client. This is just my opinion. If you've never tried Rails, perhaps consider trying Rails. Most of the other server frameworks (Laravel, Express, Django) are just efforts to copy Rails in other languages, but they never quite nail it.
Oh, I think scraping and curation are orthogonal. I agree that if I just scrape anything from the web that looks like a comedy show and don't do anything to help the user sort the good from the bad, it's going to be a bad time.
I want my site to be useful for casual comedy fans who just want to see big names like Judd Apatow or Jerry Seinfeld. And I also want it to be useful for comedy nerds who do want to see open mics and alternative comedy shows. Both experiences should be possible with automated scraping + curation/ratings/filtering.
> And hey, if you're moving fast and love Vue, keep rocking it. I just meant... use Rails. Use PHP. Use anything that emits HTML that doesn't need to be rendered in JS on the client. This is just my opinion. If you've never tried Rails, perhaps consider trying Rails. Most of the other server frameworks (Laravel, Express, Django) are just efforts to copy Rails in other languages, but they never quite nail it.
Ah, okay. I've never tried Rails, but I have been interested. Moreso in the last few years as I become a bigger fan of Basecamp. Maybe I'll find an excuse to learn it this year for a hobby project. PHP, I used for a while ~15 years ago, and I don't really miss it, but maybe the experience has gotten better since then.
lol - honestly, I doubt it. Although I'm sure that if you ask a PHP fan they will tell me that they invented sliced bread. Back in the 90s, I was a Microsoft ASP developer... ASP being the language that PHP shamelessly copied but was open source. So Laravel copying Rails feels like history repeating to me, even though I shouldn't take it personally.
Here's a promise: if you ever want to jump into Rails and have any questions, I'm willing to put in as much time and energy helping you get started as you are to soak it up.
What I'm about to say is pretty fuzzy, but I have noticed that services based on scraped datasets trend towards being predictably shittier than services lovingly harvested by a human. Obviously it's domain dependent but my bias is that it seems like scapers pick up a lot of crap; in music, it'd be the singer-songwriter showcases that literally even the performers families don't want to go to more than once a year.
I would filter out a service sending me 100+ mediocre, repetitive listings every week. I would consider paying for 5-6 human curated listings that strike a blend between "don't miss Judd Apatow" and "you might like Little Esther" up-and-comers. It's the human giving a shit that is providing value. I am someone that if I go to something I don't love, it is far worse than if I didn't leave the house.
So, yeah. It's all going to come down to what kind of customer you want. O(1000) comedy consumption sounds like someone who doesn't care how they are entertained so long as they don't have to contemplate how small they are in the universe. Like, if someone in my circle said "let's go see some comedy!" I'd say "oh, who?" and if they looked at me perplexed and said, "I dunno... comedy!" I would consider this grounds to reevaluate this relationship.
"Let's go see some music!" "What band?" "Oh, just some music!" gun
Anyhow. :)
And hey, if you're moving fast and love Vue, keep rocking it. I just meant... use Rails. Use PHP. Use anything that emits HTML that doesn't need to be rendered in JS on the client. This is just my opinion. If you've never tried Rails, perhaps consider trying Rails. Most of the other server frameworks (Laravel, Express, Django) are just efforts to copy Rails in other languages, but they never quite nail it.