Show HN: Festival Hunt – Discover, filter and sort music festivals
festivalhunt.com
festivalhunt.com
For me the discoverability problem is another one: In recent years, I am listening to so many new bands and musicians, that I am totally loosing track of their names. It occurred to me more than one time, that someone was talking about a band, whose name I thought I never heard before, to later find out that they did a song or album, that I actually listened a lot. This also goes for festivals: I walk around at a festival and hear a familiar song playing somewhere and realize, that there is a band playing that I enjoy a lot, but whose name I didn't remember at all. I know other people have this problem too and I assume this is a by-product of the UX of streaming music (when you have to put a CD or vinyl on every time you want to listen to a band, ofc you learn the names much faster).
So what I actually need is a service, where I can paste a link to a festival website, which the service scrapes and does entity recognition on. Then the resulting list of bands should be matched against my Spotify history and tell me the matches (either because I actually listened to the bands, or by some means of collaborative filtering). I am thinking about doing this in script form for this years Fusion festival, but would also like to know, if more people are interested in a service like this.
"Back in the day", I was getting new music every Tues/Thursday. It always amazed me how quickly I could catalog artist/trackname/what it sounded like in my brain. Later, if I heard another DJ play that track, I could recall the artist/track/cover art/record label info very quickly. It's kind of like any other skill really, when you do it all day every day, it's easy for you. Stop doing it for awhile, and the skill diminishes. I think it's also another example of that physical/tactile interaction with learning. Reading the info on the record, associating the visual of the cover, associating the sound of the track all while physically touching the vinyl/CD really embeds the data in the brain.
Now I need a script to suck in all the tracks I've checked with shazaam, and tracklists I've copy pasted into notepad, and bookmarked via chrome and liked on di.fm combine them, then spit out a spreadsheet showing cost to buy single mp3s and associated albums. I would buy much more music and have is accessible when mobile more often.
I'm not really expecting to see all the small ones but would be nice to have the major ones at least.
Site looks nice and it's kind of comfortable to skim over the stuff and filter a bit. I'm not really a huge fan of the genre icons, some of them don't really make sense for me and look a bit like placeholders imho.
Other than that, good job and good luck.
How much of this did you manually input, and how much is scraped?
Keep up the good work!
Eventbrite and Facebook sort of do this but neither have event features that are really optimized for this IMO.
Would definitely use that all the time.
It makes me skeptical of the rest of the information displayed for festivals I am less familiar with.
Nice job, it's clear, and easy to use.
<sidebar> However, it is oddly satisfying for me to see the console full of warnings from Firefox of 'Request to access cookie was blocked' or 'Loading failed for the <script> with source googleadservices or doubleclick' type of messages.