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Great experience all up (besides a few understandable timeouts fetching Date/Venue data today). Good focus and execution, I hope you reach the success you're after!

Couple of personal thoughts:

- When I've seen the same band a few times, it would be cool to choose cover photo (album art of their current album at the time? The song preview could also be their most popular song at the time?)

- Most of my concerts are in my hometown, where most of my friends are from. I'd love to feature the venue name on my showlist (In Brisbane, Australia <3: The Tivoli, Riverstage, The Triffid :D hehe)

- Integration with Songkick?

- I like the manual sorting, my natural preference seems to be oldest to newest, but with repeated bands grouped. I wonder if this is possibly a pattern of others too, and because having an awesome showlist to share is close to your product's core/focus it could be worth designing for this?

Awesome work!

https://showlist.io/@danfo

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Another integration I'd like to see is with Facebook events. Really the only reason I have a Facebook account is to keep track of concerts I'm going to. All the info and tickets are in the same place and I can follow certain events / groups and get notifications when new concerts pop up. If the events I'm "going" to could automatically be added to my Showlist I'd be completely sold!

Also I've noticed that this is geared toward there being 1 artist/band at each show. This might be different for different genres, but here in NL the Drum & Bass scene has like 5-6 names playing at each event so it is a bit tedious to have to enter each one manually. Again I think Facebook event integration would be a great solution to this issue because the official events have all the information about the concert if you can manage to recognize the relevant information in each post.

I think Facebook probably has the most complete summary of events across all genres if you can find a way to parse out the non-concert related events. This is probably pretty hard to implement well, but might work out with a smart enough spider crawling Facebook.

https://showlist.io/@JeeCeeBees :)

Facebook Events is a damn good idea. I am going to be looking into this and see if it is at all possible to do. Thanks for the feedback.

https://showlist.io/@jonny ;-)

Thanks for understanding.

Choosing the artwork is a great idea, adding it to the list. As for the song, we are currently playing the artists top song on Spotify. This may change in the future, but is the best we could come up with to start.

Venue featuring is something we are thinking about. I'm from a small Canadian city, so I know understand your situation.

We will be looking into any integrations in the future. Not sure at this point.

Sorting is a big feature we are tackling. I agree that sharing your awesome show list is the main feature, so you need to be able to to that in different ways. Thanks for the suggestions.

Thank you!

https://showlist.io/@jonny

Thanks Dan.

Great feedback, and thanks for understanding about the timeouts, always fun times being on HN and PH at the same time !

We focused on making it easy to build the initial list and share it with friends, but for die hard music fans we know you'll want a lot more features that we have on a roadmap.

Oh and I've featured your show list :)

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