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My first website was in this same space, a concert search site called HearWhere (https://techcrunch.com/2008/10/27/hearwhere-lets-you-discove...)

It had a bunch of stuff like artist popularity, because there were too many concerts in places like NYC to just give people a huge list to go through.

I think it's a great project to cut your teeth on. Lots of opportunity to learn in areas that you want to get better at.

I don't think it's a good business opportunity, but I'm happy to be proven wrong. This is an area that I get pitched on a lot (I'm not an investor, but try to help start-ups where I can), and even when I started HearWhere, SongKick started at the same time, raised $60m and didn't make a dent in the market.

I have no idea why you called it airovic. I don't know how that gets associated with the final product.

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Thanks for writing! I'm too interested in cultural events since long ago.

I already did complications version of this concept in the past, this time was like the final, Flash mode, do it, try it hard one more and time.

Technically, I felt in love with this project. Natural language processing + scraping + data mining and maintenance ... So, this time was from other angle, 1 index.php + 1 mysql events, and focus on getting data right, quickly, 1 monoth.

Songkick is giving me popularity, the only thing I add is event views (each visitor of an event +1). But I already added bayesians, apis, and shit that made me never ship. This time I want to focus really on user experience and quality data. Be patience and work a lot on SEO.

Grow it and sell it is the plan. The monthly costs are easy to absorb, and I'm the first I need something like this.

Airovic means tourist info in Papua.

Yup, sounds like a very similar journey as I had. Are you in Papua? I'm in Sydney, Australia.

Agree the monthly cost is low, I was spending maybe $70/month back in the day (linode servers), I'm sure it's even less now.

Looking a bit closer. Your homepage is nice, but you're probably going to need something more engaging on your results pages to get people clicking. It's a lot of text right now.

Check out City of Syndey's What's On site for some inspiration https://whatson.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/?time=weekend

Grow & Sell is the plan hey?? Have you seen any other start-ups that have done this that have been acquired? If you're looking at SongKick, they aren't a good example. Raised spent $60M to get purchased for < $10M from what I understand. So the creators probably got nothing.

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