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Show HN: Wiwo - Find events happening around you. Google Maps, but
for events.
Hey everyone in the USA! I'm developing a map-based event
discovery platform that helps people find unique and exciting
events in their city or area. I imagine that it could help young
locals who are searching what is to be attended in their area &
tourists who are visiting and want to find what to do in the area.
But before I unleash it on the world, I need your help! One major
pain point that I am trying to solve is information overload and
difficulty in discovering relevant events nearby. Traditionally,
people might rely on social media, local newspapers, or word-of-
mouth to find events happening around them. These methods can be:
Scattered: Information is spread across different sources, making
it time-consuming to search. Unfiltered: Showing a large amount of
events, not necessarily relevant to individual interests. Limited
information: Often lacking key details like event descriptions,
schedules, or ticket options. So my MVP address these issues by:
Aggregating: Bringing together event information from multiple
sources in one place. Personalization: Using filters and user
preferences to recommend relevant events. Visualization: Displaying
events on a map, allowing users to discover events based on
location and proximity. Detailed information: Providing
comprehensive descriptions and links to purchase tickets. What
other features I plan to build: Build-in resell marketplace, own
event upload, live-streaming, PPV and more. However I find it
difficult to get any feedback on the platform. I've tried paid ads,
posting to other Early Adopters websites, personally reaching out
to people, who I think are target users, but do not get any
meaningful feedback. So I'm eager to hear your honest opinions:
What works well in the platform? What needs improvement? Are
there any features you'd like to see added? Your feedback will be
invaluable in shaping the future of Wiwo! P.S. For now only US
users are needed, as other won't find events in their areas :)
Author : wiwoworld
Score : 19 points
Date : 2024-02-21 20:58 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.wiwo.world)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.wiwo.world)
| nameequalsmain wrote:
| Why do I need to turn off my adblocker to see the map?
| wiwoworld wrote:
| Hi,
|
| this is in order to localize you roughly on the map. Instead of
| showing you completely different part of the map :)
| laweijfmvo wrote:
| Happy to localize myself thanks
| Krasnol wrote:
| Just offer a button to request this.
|
| No reason to make it a default and running into those
| problems.
|
| PS. no way I'm turning off my ublock for some unknown page
| asking for this.
| webstrand wrote:
| The app makes a 3rd-party request to determine your IP. I
| wonder why they didn't just grab it from HTTP headers?
| stevage wrote:
| Seems to be down now.
|
| Obviously I can't see it, but from your description, I wonder if
| you want to be more precise about what you mean by "event". Do
| you primarily mean passive ticketed events like shows, or
| interactive things like workshops? Or community gatherings like
| Parkrun.
|
| I have some hesitation about making all events more discoverable.
| Sometimes the friction of dincoverability is important to getting
| the right kind of people to come, who heard through the right
| channels, as opposed to some random who did the easiest thing by
| looking on a website.
|
| Having tourists show up at a community building event for locals
| might sound great for the tourist, but not so great for the
| community.
| wiwoworld wrote:
| Hi,
|
| rebooted the heroku dyno, now it is up again :) You can take a
| look. It is about concerts, theater, sports events ...
| willmorrison wrote:
| I'm getting a Heroku application error.
| wiwoworld wrote:
| Hi,
|
| Now it should be up again :)
| neduma wrote:
| same
| wiwoworld wrote:
| I've up-scaled the ifra ... for now it is up again :)
| rungabajje wrote:
| There are three main buttons. The big red button with a globe I
| have no idea what it's supposed to do, it does nothing when I tap
| it. The home button doesn't seem to do anything either. Then I
| lost interest.
| wiwoworld wrote:
| I hear you! The bottom app bar is something that I need to
| rework for sure!
| geocrasher wrote:
| I managed to get to use it before it was hugged to death, and
| found some great nearby concerts and events to go to. Immediate
| feedback: - ESC closes the current window you
| just clicked to open - Different color icons for
| music/events - Filter by music/events - Filter by
| upcoming date (next 30,90,6mo etc)
|
| I forgot to add- I love it! Great concept. I hope it takes off
| for you.
| wiwoworld wrote:
| Yeah ... I am currently up-scaling the infrastructure because
| of all the users :D
| wiwoworld wrote:
| Thank you for the suggestions!
| yreg wrote:
| Some feedback:
|
| 1. I would like to be able to get from the event to the map pin
| position. Both on the event screen (it could be even embedded
| there) and in search results. The site is showing me only events
| in Cyrillic - I don't know why. Perhaps the closest events to me
| are in Ukraine/Russia?
|
| 2. I dislike the decisions about where target="_blank" is used.
| Sometimes it is used when I don't expect it and sometimes it is
| not used when I do expect it.
|
| 3. I wouldn't do the transform: rotate; thing with text. It feels
| strange. Might even make it less accessible for some.
|
| 4. CAPITAL BLUE WORDS - some of them are links and some of them
| are emphasis. You need to distinguish those cases.
|
| 5. Why can't I access the map with uBlock Origin? Don't tell me
| it's required for the positioning, use Geolocation browser API.
|
| 6. On the landing page, you are for some reason putting all of
| the content into <h2 /> tags.
| wiwoworld wrote:
| 1. Ahmm I assume you are using it on PC and you mean events on
| the front-page are in Cyrillic? You say - "I would like to be
| able to get from the event to the map pin position." - you mean
| from front-page to pin on the map or you mean from search to
| pin on the map?
|
| What do you think about removing the landing page all together
| and using only the map page?
| yreg wrote:
| > you mean from front-page to pin on the map or you mean from
| search to pin on the map?
|
| I mean from both.
|
| The front page shows me this event:
| https://www.wiwo.world/event/location=cest-la-vie-
| club&categ...
|
| I have no idea where it is. I don't know what's La Vie Club
| or even what country it is in.
|
| ---
|
| When I open map and enter something into the search bar, I
| get a list of events. Again, I have no idea where they are
| happening. Clicking on them sends me on the event page.
|
| ---
|
| >removing the landing page all together and using only the
| map page
|
| Sounds like an improvement for the user. Can't comment on
| business/marketing impact.
| robcohen wrote:
| This is very cool. I had a similar idea recently but I had no
| idea how to correctly parse various sources of event information
| other than writing custom beautiful soup or similar code for
| every single source.
|
| Actually, I was thinking that event information could maybe be
| correctly pulled using AI tools. Admittedly, I'm no AI expert, so
| I am unsure what open source tools would be best for this.
|
| Anyone know of models that could be given a url, and parse any
| website and scrape the event data and return it in json with a
| very high degree of accuracy?
|
| What would be cool is to just give the app a list of bookmarks
| and get a map like this or even automatically have it parsed into
| ical format.
| pimlottc wrote:
| Your map page doesn't explain itself at all. Every page on your
| site needs at least a tagline to help people understand what
| they're looking at.
| maelito wrote:
| > If you have problems seeing the map, please stop your
| AdBlocker...
|
| Well, no.
| thenberlin wrote:
| Really cool idea and generally solid execution -- I would totally
| use this.
|
| That said, a couple bits: 1. I can't seem to click the events on
| the map in Safari on Mac. 2. The map doesn't load at all in Brave
| (I even dropped the tracker blocking on the site and reloaded and
| it still didn't load).
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