Show HN: My weekend project, Board game reservations

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Looks interesting. I gave it my zip code (95051) and it returned two conventions: one in Burlingame, which is ~25 miles away. That's reasonable. The other is in "Columbus"; all I know is that it's ~2000 miles away. I'm assuming that's Columbus, Ohio, although I haven't checked. Regardless, I'd rather see one result that I might possible go to than two results where one of them is literally thousands of miles away; you might consider tweaking how you determine events to be relevant to users.

Thanks for the comment. My guess is that you didn't click one of the miles boxes. It defaults to 3000 miles, which I know is not reasonable, but that way you can see all the conventions. Yes, right now there are only 2...

Again, thanks for trying it out.

Ah, that's exactly what happened. Perhaps default to something like 25 miles, and then include a selection for "All"? I'm definitely not somebody who's well-versed in UX stuff, but that might help give people intended behavior more easily.

I'd try out the rest of it but I actually don't remember my twitter account information. Sorry!

Edit: I don't know if this is a result of how users create events or not, but it would be useful to include some more specific data about locations. I happen to know that there's a town called Burlingame around 20 miles north of me, but I don't have an encyclopedic knowledge of however many Columbuses there are; I know there's one in Ohio (i think) but there could easily be others, and if you told me that there's a Columbus, TN or Columbus, WI and that it was about 2000 miles away, I'd say "Sure; I could believe that".

Fair point. Again, thanks for the comment. I'm going to that con in Burlingame this weekend, I'm sure there will be many more suggestions.

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