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HELP ME NAME THIS! Website/app idea - need feedback
Ok, so was recently coding a new system for businesses to post events in one spot and have it propagate to all the important places it needs to go - Facebook, their website, Eventbrite, Zvents, local papers, etc etc
AND a thought occurred to me. IF I were looking for events going on in a city, I would turn to the local event-centric paper (Austin Chronicle here) or similar website... but more and more these days businesses are eschewing that route and simply creating an EVENT on Facebook. Well, that is all well and good for anyone who gets an INVITE for the event or who is a FAN of their page... but what about the random people who just want to see what is going on? SOOOO I was thinking of creating a simple event site that lists all the Facebook events in a specific area and also maps them on a Google map. I could also add events/music listings from other sources but it seems to me that Facebook is becoming the sole source for quite a bit of these things. Also, starting out this would be limited to bars.. which should be fine for now. EDIT: Now I need a name for this! Any ideas? So any feedback? Useful? Oh and to be clear, all I'm hoping is that the idea is somewhat useful to people as a tool... I'm not expecting it to be anything huge. Last edited by AustinChief; 07-14-2012 at 02:36 PM.. |
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You should make that into an app
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No feedback? useful? useless? waste of my time?
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I like it. Maybe have a way for people rate/review the different bars, as well.
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We need that bad here at the Lake of the Ozarks.
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![]() I'm actually working on a way to get the bar/venue listings directly from yelp then use that data to search Facebook by location and then calculate the Levenshtein distance on the result strings to match the yelp bar id with a facebook id and then add the relevant data to my database. In theory, this will let me launch a new area with just a few minutes of work. We shall see... for now, I'm concentrating on Austin. |
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What are you typically coding with? You mention it'll web-based to start. Are you using jQuery Mobile, Sencha, or anything like that? Do you work with PHP web services at all? Maybe we could work together on something sometime.
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jquery mobile and php/mysql/JSON on the back end.
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