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Hmm, since you are offering comment size consulting...

I built http://impromptudo.com a few months back to scratch my own itch (I'm bored right now, whats going on around me). Simply: I want to be the padmapper of local events.

I'm not selling a product all I want right now is traffic. I've got some great ideas for features but don't want to spend anymore time if it's a dud.

I did spend some money on reddit ads, but it was mostly useless (but at least I know why).

Any ideas on just getting traffic? I've spammed HN as much as I can spam I think already.

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This is very cool. A way for me to filter by activity type would be helpful.

Re traffic, it is the lifeblood of any site. Couple thoughts:

- Buy banner or link on site(s) that attract the type of users you want. - Submit to bloggers who'd find this cool. - See if there's anyway you can create original content out of this and seo that. Thinking out loud here, perhaps snapshots of what happened in different areas per day, and then seo those pages. But that'll take time to start building traffic.

Hi Thanks.

Yea an activity filter is one of the features and also a daily/weekly email of events happening in your area right to your inbox.

I agree on buying some eyeballs but right now I'm not plugged into this community enough to see those opportunities. I wouldn't know where to start. Like how do I find communities that revolve around solving the boredom problem, besides reddit (which I've done)/digg/4chan/etc?

Cool site! You have a pretty good spectrum of events (at least in Seattle). What event websites are you scraping?

I think a good question would be: How long did it take for padmapper to get popular? Maybe ask Mr. Padmapper that.

I aggregate a few different services, the most popular being meetup.com. I currently integrate with 5 different event providers and looking to add more, but in a holding pattern until I figure out my next move.

I think I reached out to padmapper during launch. Maybe time for another message.

Need mobile version. I rarely use my computer anymore when I'm looking for local data, I almost always go straight to Yelp or the Google Search widget on my Android.

There is a mobile version, it should auto detect by user agent, or if you go directly to http://m.impromptudo.com. It is however a bit buggy atm, working that out though.

the mobile web experience is terrible imo, and i need to build native apps, which will come if I can validate this project.

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