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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.

johnbroccoli
This is fantastic, nice work!

Are you planning on adding any ability for people to add their own events directly to the map?

karlmageddon
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...
johnbroccoli
Awesome.

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

karlmageddon
Now that is actually in the immediate pipeline :) Expect to see squidlist events appear on the map soon!
bridgpal
Neat. SF Fun cheap needs something like this
johnwh
Thanks, I was able to find the SF Jewish Film Festival through this. I love the interface!
sayemm
Nice mashup!

I did something similar a while back using Google Maps for finding stuff to do in San Diego: http://sdhangouts.com

karlmageddon
Thanks! This is awesome! I'm thinking of adding neighborhood functionality in a future iteration.