> Then drop in this hard truth - recreational travel isn't actually all that commonplace amongst average people. The average joe goes on one or two major vacations in their entire life.
is similar to what sama said about why his local startup (Loopt) failed[0]:
> Most people are too boring I think--they're at the same places most of the time.
Some serious judgement from sama in that comment. Maybe "average people" would like us techies more if we weren't so sanctimonious in addition to being affluent and insular.
Man, I've been wanting one of those for years. Even just searching for interesting concerts is a tedious chore on most sites. The lack of anything like this means I basically have a few favorite local venues, and I try to keep up with their programs. It's really not ideal.
There is a small site that maintains an event calendar for my city, oriented towards a certain subculture. That's by far the best thing I've seen for discovering new things to do.
I don't know if there's an actual business model in any of this. That's definitely the hard part. But it would be such a useful resource.
Yeah I'm curious too. Did you try Zvents, the company mentioned in mrbirds link? Which city? I normally live in London where a big problem is filtering the events for the cool stuff as there's >1000 things/week. Never heard of Zvents before.
If you're in New York City and enjoy house, funk or soul music, I highly recommend DanceDeets[0] for a carefully curated list of events, some of which would be difficult to find otherwise.
> Then drop in this hard truth - recreational travel isn't actually all that commonplace amongst average people. The average joe goes on one or two major vacations in their entire life.
is similar to what sama said about why his local startup (Loopt) failed[0]:
> Most people are too boring I think--they're at the same places most of the time.
0: https://www.producthunt.com/live/sam-altman#comment-208794