My first app: wat2do, a daily map of events in SF

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	My first app: wat2do, a daily map of events in SF (sfwat2do.com)
	17 points by karlmageddon 4712 days ago

6 comments

karlmageddon 4712 days ago

I'm a student at General Assembly and this is 1/2 of my first project. The other half is an API I built that scrapes http://sf.funcheap.com (one of my favorite sites ever) once a day for events and gives me a JSON to use when I call it.

Feedback/suggestions/bug reports are totally welcome.

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johnwh 4712 days ago

Thanks, I was able to find the SF Jewish Film Festival through this. I love the interface!

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karlmageddon 4712 days ago

Thank you! Have fun at the filmfest :)

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sayemm 4712 days ago

Nice mashup!

I did something similar a while back using Google Maps for finding stuff to do in San Diego: http://sdhangouts.com

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karlmageddon 4712 days ago

Thanks! This is awesome! I'm thinking of adding neighborhood functionality in a future iteration.

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johnbroccoli 4712 days ago

This is fantastic, nice work!

Are you planning on adding any ability for people to add their own events directly to the map?

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karlmageddon 4712 days ago

Thank you so much! That's definitely in the pipeline somewhere but I'm trying to add more curated events via other API's + Facebook. The last time I thought about how I'd handle user submissions I ended up staring at a wall for half an hour trying to think of how to eventually get users to share events which led to more possible features like a live feed and, and...

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johnbroccoli 4712 days ago

Awesome.

For what it's worth, I also look at this: http://squidlist.com/ from time to time for events around the bay area.

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karlmageddon 4712 days ago

Now that is actually in the immediate pipeline :) Expect to see squidlist events appear on the map soon!

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bridgpal 4712 days ago

Neat. SF Fun cheap needs something like this

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elofjohnson 4712 days ago

This is great, just book marked.

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