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Hello Hacker News,

We created a new event recommendation website, http://eventdroid.com, and wanted to get your feedback on our beta version. It only works for the San Francisco Bay Area right now. We will expand to other areas soon, when we gain more traction.

Here’s the gist of our idea: We navigate the maze of events, you find something fun to do! You tell us what your goal is, whether it is go out on a date, take the kids somewhere on the weekend, or just have fun with your friends. We then suggest a small number of events that are relevant for you. No more sifting through hundreds of events on various sites to find the one you’re really interested in.

Please visit our site and let us know what you think.

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eranation
Human curated or machine generated? I had this idea for a couple of years, and I hearing it from so many people, that I keep asking myself, why isn't there a decent solution? My thought was that doing it via machine learning, is very hard, and somewhat competes with Google / Facebook in their own field, but doing it manually (e.g. just reading the sites / magazines and updating) is not scaling in the eyes of VCs, so it's doomed to fail, although it's MUCH needed, and there is no real good solution. just beware that you are going to have tons of competition based on all the people I hear that are working on this.
eventdroid
Right now, it's manual. We're itching for machine learned solutions...perhaps the first step is to do it manually and use that labelled data later. But you're right, it's a huge challenge, and we're not sure how to do it.
aw4y
weird name for this era...
eranation
you mean, they should have called themselves evently? or event.io? or evnt.co? perhaps. but EventDroid is a great domain if you managed to get it without paying hundreds of dollars...
eventdroid
yeh, we tried those, and eventify or eventshark, all taken. these domain squaders...
eventdroid
what name that's available would you suggest? :)
eranation
+1 for not using the bootstrap default by the way looks good. missing: favicon, and how you are going to monetize? nice to have: API for event creators (certified ones) to add events so you don't have too nice to have2: use open graph to identify events nice to have3: google maps integration must have: mobile app :)

but keep going, so many have the same issue, and no one did it right, so being the first with SOMETHING is great

one last thing - the thing that kills such things is content have great content that is up to date, people won't care about features or how it looks

eventdroid
thanks for your feedback! monetization is pretty far out at this stage but it's definitely on the to do list. And yes, content is important, we spent a lot of effort aggregating and curating the events, and there's still a lot of room to improve on that front. Can you explain a little bit on what you mean by API for event creators? Thanks again!
caw
Monetization - You could do sponsored event postings or affiliate sales of tickets.

I think what he means is that I as an event host will periodically hold events. If I could notify you via the API when I have a new event that would get me listed faster.

eventdroid
I see. I think we can implement an event submission form, that should take care of your use case.

Yes, there are several ways we can go about monetization. But I think at this point our focus is on content quality and user experience.

mapster
I would like an event recommendation app where I can connect ME + FB FRIEND(S) + PLACE + DURATION (i.e. friend visiting my town for weekend + kids. what to do?)

FB friends would be used to scrape their and my interests etc., to form intelligent recommendations.

eventdroid
in the short term, We will include a facebook share button soon so your friends will know about your interests and have conversations about them.