Show HN: Things to Do API

(thingstodoapi.com)

25 points | by invalidmonk a day ago ago

14 comments

  • tokioyoyo a few seconds 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.

  • shrinks99 32 minutes 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 30 minutes ago

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

      • shrinks99 9 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!

  • aleksiy123 41 minutes ago

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

  • egonschiele 20 hours ago

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

    • invalidmonk an hour ago

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

  • fellowniusmonk 2 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.

    • invalidmonk an hour ago

      please share!

      • kylecazar 40 minutes ago

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

        • invalidmonk 29 minutes ago

          events apis and green chartreuse

  • 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 an hour ago

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