Show HN: Things to Do API

(thingstodoapi.com)

26 points | by invalidmonk a day ago ago

16 comments

  • tokioyoyo 16 minutes ago 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 7 minutes ago 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 an hour ago 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 an hour ago ago

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

      • shrinks99 24 minutes ago 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 4 minutes ago ago

        x2 for Toronto.

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

  • egonschiele 20 hours ago ago

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

    • invalidmonk an hour ago ago

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

  • aleksiy123 an hour ago ago

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

  • fellowniusmonk 3 hours ago 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.

    • invalidmonk an hour ago ago

      please share!

      • kylecazar an hour ago ago

        Two unrelated monks working on the same thing? What are the odds

        • invalidmonk 44 minutes ago ago

          events apis and green chartreuse

  • lap248 21 hours ago ago

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

    • invalidmonk an hour ago ago

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