Show HN: Citycal – Collaborative Events Calendar

Hi all,

I've been messing around with this website for a little bit and wanted to post it here to see what people thought.

I originally built it for myself: as a user, I find it hard to know what's going on in my city and always felt like I would learn about the cool stuff going on AFTER it happened, you'd either need to parse an ad-heavy super verbose blog post with 5 suggestions for the weekend you were not interested in on timeout or waste your time clicking back and forth on a bunch of event page each taking 5 seconds to load only to find they're also not what you're interested in... So I started scraping events from different sources and aggregating them in one place with a super quick UI to jump between events and Citycal was born!

Then I thought well it'd be cool if there was one centralized app to browse events for all major cities in the world--so if I travel to say Athens, Greece I could view events in the app-- the same way I can book an Airbnb anywhere.

The main issue is sourcing the events for all these cities. I started with a few US cities and came up with this Wikipedia-like submission format where users could submit their own events, making this a "collaborative events calendar".

Another one of my pet peeves with regular events browsing sites is that they are super super slow and each event is typically loaded in its own page, so I wanted to make this super fast so you could check out 10 events in like 10 seconds and see which one you were actually interested in.

I think curation and personalization will be the next issue if this starts having too many events since digging through these would become tedious but I have a few ideas to fix that.

Anyways, I can't tell if this is a stupid idea or genius, but I figured I'd share it here since this is a cool community. Would love any feedback! Tear it to shreds :-')