To start with, I can't get it do anything. I enter my city and dates, click "show me concerts" and then nothing. Maybe you're not handling zero results properly or something?
Cool idea.
EDIT: Remove comment on quotes, got confused and thought it was you guys down there, since they look so alike.
It could do with providing some useful information when no results are found, and why it might not have returned any results (available regions, what is a "band", what is a "venue"). At the moment, when there are no results, the first thing you see is "How it works". This immediately prompts the thought "It doesn't".
I entered a date range of 1st August to 30th November. In the town, there was a major music festival at the end of August, and a currently popular band will be playing in the town's biggest theatre at the end of November.
I then tried London. apparently, for those four months, there are no bands playing in any venue in London, I even tried Wembley Arena.
The city box autocompleted both of my attempts, which led me to assume that they were valid places in your database. You might consider restricting that autocomplete to only allow places that have events you know about.
I'm curious where you get your data from? I played around with a website for finding club nights a few years ago - the best source of data I could find was scraping Facebook. Unfortunately it was a bit unreliable.
The biggest problem with trying to do this in an automated fashion is sorting out the crap from the actual gigs and events. It's easy to miss smaller things if you just use a single major API. Bandsintown seem fairly good at it, but have a pretty horrible interface.
Love the idea, but it's not working for me. I first thought that it might be my location (Barcelona, Spain), but then typing "New York" shows nothing either.
Why not adding the location detection from the browser by default? If it's where I live, I might do not want to type it again and again.
I might use it when it will work properly, big music fan here :P
Maybe a personal detail, but I find weird the guitar in the middle of the name. Why not on the side?
This is an appealing looking website but sadly it doesn't work for me. I'm running Firefox on OS X.
I entered Manchester, UK from 09/09/2015 to 10/01/2015. When I clicked `Show me concerts` it displays `Loading...` then that disappears. No error message or information on why nothing has been shown.
At this point I hazarded a guess that your data sources are US only, so I tried New York City. Again, this did not work.
I can imagine that it would not work for EU for some reason, but it even returns that there are no concerts in NYC for the entire month of September.
This leaves me wondering, where did you get the quotes from that this service is the best way to find bands when it isn't working? Or is it just that HN has DDoS'ed your backend? :)
EDIT: it also appears that you are lacking a #contact named anchor tag - the "contact us" button is not working.
I didn't actually expect to use the site - I thought I'd just glance at it and close. But it was so slick that before I really noticed what was happening, Spotify was playing a list of lots of small bands playing around Brighton (UK) in the next week. Cheers for building it!
Would be great if you could filter by genre somehow.
Thanks mate! So glad to hear it! I really want to filter by genre, but it would be tough to do that real-time. Maybe if people could subscribe to a weekly playlist?
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Cool idea.
EDIT: Remove comment on quotes, got confused and thought it was you guys down there, since they look so alike.
Where are you getting the data from?
I entered a date range of 1st August to 30th November. In the town, there was a major music festival at the end of August, and a currently popular band will be playing in the town's biggest theatre at the end of November.
I then tried London. apparently, for those four months, there are no bands playing in any venue in London, I even tried Wembley Arena.
The city box autocompleted both of my attempts, which led me to assume that they were valid places in your database. You might consider restricting that autocomplete to only allow places that have events you know about.
I'm curious where you get your data from? I played around with a website for finding club nights a few years ago - the best source of data I could find was scraping Facebook. Unfortunately it was a bit unreliable.
The biggest problem with trying to do this in an automated fashion is sorting out the crap from the actual gigs and events. It's easy to miss smaller things if you just use a single major API. Bandsintown seem fairly good at it, but have a pretty horrible interface.
I might use it when it will work properly, big music fan here :P Maybe a personal detail, but I find weird the guitar in the middle of the name. Why not on the side?
Cheers and well done on shipping something :)
I entered Manchester, UK from 09/09/2015 to 10/01/2015. When I clicked `Show me concerts` it displays `Loading...` then that disappears. No error message or information on why nothing has been shown.
At this point I hazarded a guess that your data sources are US only, so I tried New York City. Again, this did not work.
I then looked at what was going on, and your server is returning a 500 when making the GET request to http://bandsoftheweek.com/location-then-events?location-quer...
I think you should handle 500 responses better.
This leaves me wondering, where did you get the quotes from that this service is the best way to find bands when it isn't working? Or is it just that HN has DDoS'ed your backend? :)
EDIT: it also appears that you are lacking a #contact named anchor tag - the "contact us" button is not working.
What data sources does it use?
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- But it sounds like a really awesome idea!
I didn't actually expect to use the site - I thought I'd just glance at it and close. But it was so slick that before I really noticed what was happening, Spotify was playing a list of lots of small bands playing around Brighton (UK) in the next week. Cheers for building it!
Would be great if you could filter by genre somehow.