Show HN: Things to Do API

(thingstodoapi.com)

28 points | by invalidmonk 22 hours ago

6 comments

  • tokioyoyo 37 minutes ago

    Which sources does it support? Discoverability is a huge problem for smaller events, as most get posted on IG, and it’s hard to even find them through IG.

    I started relying on a mix of Muse/ChatGPT/Gemini depended on which data sources I want to combine, as they all seem to have special deals with different sources.

    • invalidmonk 28 minutes ago

      at the moment, there is a fan out across social media accts from a few different platforms, relying mostly on co-posting to discover new accounts.

      any particular events that you'd flag that I could do some eval against?

    • shrinks99 1 hour ago

      This is pretty cool, does it scrape Instagram? A lot of events where I live (Toronto) are posted there and not many other places. It's a real problem if you don't want to spend time on that app.

      • invalidmonk 1 hour ago

        amongst a few other data sources :) is this something you'd use if we added toronto support?

        • shrinks99 45 minutes ago

          Personally, I don't have a project that requires it right now, but aspirationally maybe! I agree with another commenter that mentioned this is basically a public service that should exist similar to Wikidata / Musicbrainz.

          I know this is currently a paid service you're trying to make happen and the scraping part is a reasonable amount of effort, but if you wanted to make the data source public, you could publish community.lexicon.calendar.event ATProto records and it would be very cool. At the very least, you could ingest it as a data source!

          • moralestapia 25 minutes ago

            x2 for Toronto.

            There's hundreds of events happening every week but finding them takes a lot of time.

        • egonschiele 20 hours ago

          This feels hard to maintain and keep up-to-date, but I would definitely use it! Great idea.

          • invalidmonk 1 hour ago

            If an agent maintains it, is it hard? :D

          • aleksiy123 1 hour ago

            Cool idea and I really like the design of the landing page.

          • fellowniusmonk 3 hours ago

            Solving this issue a core problem for humanity, and it goes hand in hand with the need for a public service.

            I'm actually working to do this at ultra low cost as a public service like Wikipedia or musicbrainz.

            I'll be publishing global costs to serve and letting people donate to support.

          • lap248 21 hours ago

            super slick! got results quickly and am getting more interesting and in the know kind of events than other tools

            • invalidmonk 1 hour ago

              tysm! are there any geos you would like to see?