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I like this, very silly :)

and desktop!

Highly recommend - https://www.brightbox.com/ for European / UK hosting

Agreed, I've never even seen boobs on TikTok...

I've seen this game played on YouTube a LOT and really want to give it a go.. Any chance of a Mac port?

Video of the breakup - https://www.instagram.com/reel/DE52_hVSeQz/

Hey HN,

14 years ago on HN a domain name generator launched called Impossibility (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1874465), as a bloke with a fair few side projects I really enjoyed the speed and simplicity

The site shut down a few years ago (and the domain name was bought by a porn site hence @dang having to remove the URL) and I've not found a service that replicates it to my liking.

So, I rebuilt it, I've got a few tweaks still to make but I'm pleased with the current speed and simplicity of it.

That's next, they were only dealing with one union at once.

Hey HN, Dom here, since the launch of https://littlewarden.com on Show HN a few years ago, we've added a lot of new features but we've always wanted to have a free tier (to get some attention).

We decided that going back and making LW work with thousands of free users wouldn't be the best use of our time but we could use the core API of Little Warden and build another website from it thus Free Domain Alerts was born.

I still have 4 more tweets that I can see today so as long as I only refresh this tweet three more times. I'm good.

This is EU only so no US paypal payments.

Simon (and Nat of course) are one of the most inspirational (smartest and loveliest) couples I've encountered in all the weird tech events..

Their honeymoon, creation of Lanyrd and then eventual sale was a lovely story to follow over the years (and it's certainly part of an inspiration to our latest project)

Here's to 20 more years of blogging!

Thanks for answering that! I went for some lunch :)

Oh yes, it's a beautiful website.

Thanks that's appreciated, please feel free to email dom@dresscircle.co.uk if you think of anything we can improve :)

Thanks, let me know what we are missing and I’ll try and get them added (as a two person team we know we have a challenge to try and get everything!)

Thanks for the feedback! You are right that it’s not “exactly” the same use case but it’s certainly an easy way to pitch it!

I really want to highlight smaller and regional productions as well as larger west end ones (that’s why our recommendations system is designed not to focus on budget ;) )

Awards are on the development list but I want to really think about ones which could have an impact to the production rather than quickly throwing some up!

Hey, I’m on my mobile at the moment but I think we can do that, can you send a message to dom@dresscircle.co.Uk and I’ll see if what we can do will work!

/me very quickly updates SQL ...I have NO IDEA what you are talking about ;)

That's a very fair point, honestly not the first thing we thought of when building the website (as the initial intention was only for my wife and I to have lists but certainly something I'm going to look into and work on.

I agree, and thats one the reasons that each show page has reviews based on the ratings of each show i.e. https://www.dresscircle.co.uk/shows/disney-s-the-lion-king and each how has a discussion board. obviously there is still a fair bit to do but we thought about that from the beginning.

That's a good point we should think about the naming of that page.. as we also have Online only theatres - https://www.dresscircle.co.uk/theatres/online and ones in the sea https://www.dresscircle.co.uk/theatres/sea ;)

Thanks, that's exactly what we were going for!

Less than 5% of the links we have are affiliate links, a few sites in the industry we noticed will only list venues that give a kickback, but we want to list everything and we've got a few other ideas of monetisation later down the link (the small number of affiliate links we have at the moment are working pretty well).

A ticketing solution is certainly one of the options we have, especially for the smaller productions which are in makeshift theatres (a fair few in working mens clubs!)

We do have unique ID's for each production (and have already had to deal with avoiding duplication of shows with the same name) but linking to Wikidata is a good shout!

I've not looked into it fully but since we cover a lot of Fringe and Amateur productions they might not be in Wikidata and those will tend to have a higher duplication factor.

There is no scraping (at the moment) it's all manually input to avoid issues, every theatre website is different (and a lot of them are terrible) but we are getting on a lot of press distribution lists so the next stage it to see if we can automate the parsing of those emails.

Thanks for the comments re: pitch, it was a fun day and looking forward to next year

Haha I can't lie, she is a MUCH better developer than me and typically I build a proof of concept and she gets annoyed with my code and takes over.

Hey HN!,

My wife and I have created Dress Circle.

The idea behind Dress Circle came from a Google Doc I've had for years with every show (Play, Musical, Opera) I've seen in ranked order, eventually we translated it into a webpage (https://www.dresscircle.co.uk/+thehodge) so others could view it and then friends wanted their own list.

To enable features such as alerts and showcases, we started to build a database Theatres in the UK then we added the shows that were in them and THEN we added the actors (and creative teams).

Then we started to add historical productions and.. well here we are, we've accidentally built IMDB for UK Theatre

(I thought with the timezone this might be a good time to post)

Yeah same, I searched for Leeds grand theatre and the top result is something titled "June 2012 – Sam's Blog' which just mentions the word grand.

Love it! But how soon until spammers start using fake benches to try and get us to buy garden equipment