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Show HN: SeenDB – Remember all the concerts you've been to

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Hola HN,

I thought I'd show off a new hobby project I've been working on! It's called SeenDB and is a site to help music fans remember all of the concerts they've been to.

If that sounds cool, check it out at http://seendb.com or see my blog post here: http://blog.justinthiele.com/seendb-site-remember-concerts-youve-been-to/

Happy Holidays!

Justin

11 comments

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hmsimha
This is really cool! If it gains traction it'd be neat to be able to see photos from events you've attended uploaded by other users as well.
thiele
Yeah, exactly! My original goal was just to get my friends who I attended with to use it and upload their photos :)
whichdan
Neat idea. Can you plug this into setlist.fm, last.fm, and maybe SongKick to get some more data on each show?
thiele
Yep, that's something I'll be looking at. Setlist.fm could definitely be interesting. Other sites often don't have data about what actually happened at the show though (setlists, photos, videos, attendees). Seems most are focused on upcoming info.
ToastyMallows
Great idea. I've always been looking for a place to dump concert pictures so that everyone can enjoy them. Website looks really clean, kudos!
thiele
Yep, exactly. Thanks!
bramm
My story is similar to yours; googling to find the dates of concerts. Have you tried solving that part of the problem for your users? People remember a lot of details about the shows they see, but rarely do they remember the date.

Even if you manually created your own database for the dates, that would be a great start. It would be nice to select a band, then a location and be presented with a list of dates and venues they have performed at.

Also, there's a lot of bands missing from the auto-fill. Does that update as people continue to add more bands?

This is a great start.

thiele
Googling for concert dates does suck. I'm not sure the best way to solve it though. Building a database of concert dates is a big undertaking. It's not uncommon for modern bands to have played 500 - 1000+ concerts. Classic bands twice that amount. Multiplied by thousands of bands. Songkick seems to have done a pretty good job getting a baseline concert database together. Potential for an integration.

The auto-fill currently only suggests bands that have been entered into SeenDB.

bramm
I know it would be difficult because of the amount. But you could start small by either picking a band you think most of your users have seen, or focusing on one of your favorite groups for your local area and friends, then manually building a db of all of their shows, locations and venues. This helps you figure out the process to replicate in the future, as well as demonstrates the simplicity to the users.

Once you have the process figured out, you could start auto suggesting venues and dates that have been entered by others, just as you currently auto-fill bands that have already been entered.

Also, if there were a way to allow people to add bands, dates and venues to the DB that they haven't seen just to help out, that would be a good way of gathering as well.

I'm sure you have already thought of hundreds of things you can do with it, including what I've suggested. I'm just focused on the search and collect aspect because it is such a large pain point begging to be cured.

amagnus
Neat. Which framework are you using?