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Every local event in one feed
One searchable place or followable feed for local tech meetups, hackathons, talks and gigs, so they no longer need Facebook to hear about them.
Asks per year
What the askers want
- Would pay8%
- Want it local or private0%
- Object to subscriptions0%
- Want it open source or self-hosted0%
- Want AI to do it0%
Share of the 13 asks that say so, as judged by Jev.
What exists on Show HN
Built, still asked for19 Show HN launches do this job, and 7 more do part of it. People still ask, so the launches are missed, unknown, or not what they want. Ask what they’re missing before you build.
- Things to Do API2026 · 57 pts
- Search Engine for Local Events2025 · 17 pts
- Nirbai – map first event platform2025 · 9 pts
- 3cosystem – biggest tech and event calendar in your city2015 · 7 pts
- Mapibara – A Map for Local Events (markets, concerts, hiking...)2025 · 5 pts
- Open source aggregator for the hottest startup events in your area2014 · 4 pts
- Murmurs – an app to discover local events and quickly plan with friends2025 · 3 pts
- Eventagogo, a local event discovery engine2018 · 3 pts
Instead of: Facebook
The idea, as matched
A service that aggregates local events such as tech meetups, hackathons, conferences, gigs and talks into a searchable map or subscribable feed, without needing Facebook.
Jev first matched 14 requests to this idea; a second reader kept 13 of 14.
Every ask, newest first
Each line is an AI paraphrase of what the writer wanted. The link goes to their own words on Hacker News.
Reader’s note. Older asks are tech events; newer ones general local events.
- Jan 2025Misses Facebook for staying in touch with distant contacts and finding or advertising local events, wanting good replacements. Read it: a comment in “Meta Wants More AI Bots on Facebook and Instagram”
- Aug 2024Would pay $5 to $10 monthly for a reliable aggregator showing filterable local events, linking to original sources. Read it: a comment in “Ask HN: What is a simple paid app / webapp that you wish existed?”
- Aug 2022Wants an RSS-like event feed standard so a reader can follow galleries and musicians and filter by region. Read it: a post: “Ask HN: Why is there no RSS-equivalent for events?”
- Jun 2017Wants a way to track local music events posted on Facebook without having to use Facebook. Read it: a comment in “Facebook is an attack on the open web”
- Nov 2014Says someone should build a map of developer events. Read it: a comment in “Ask HN: Anyone know of a map of dev events?”
- Nov 2014Wants a map or searchable geographic list of developer events. Read it: a post: “Ask HN: Anyone know of a map of dev events?”
- Sep 2012Says a local events aggregator is badly needed but hard to scale, curated or automated. Read it: a comment in “Ask HN: Review EventDroid.com”
- Apr 2012Wants a Lanyard-like service that announces coding contests and similar events in time. Read it: a comment in “Google Code Jam 2012”
- Apr 2012Wants a website to find hackathons happening near them. Read it: a comment in “The Hack Day Manifesto”
- Feb 2011Wants a site listing tech conferences, including smaller ones outside Silicon Valley, for a Florida-based beginner. Read it: a post: “Ask HN: Where can I find upcoming tech conferences?”
- Dec 2010Wants a list of upcoming IT talks and conferences in their city, such as London. Read it: a post: “Ask HN: How to keep informed on events in your city?”
- Apr 2010Wants a Songkick-like service where speakers can post their speaking schedules. Read it: a post: “Ask HN: Songkick for speakers”
- Aug 2009Wants a Calagator-like local event aggregator for San Francisco and says someone should build it. Read it: a comment in “Why Portland is a great place for startups”
Building this?
Read ten of the asks above first, because they say what the existing launches miss. If you ship it, post it as a Show HN so the next run of this list finds it.
Ship it like Vercel, on a server you own
This site runs on ShipTiffin. A push to GitHub deploys it, the way it would on Vercel, but the server is a Hetzner box in your own account. Postgres, sign-in, email, jobs and analytics are already on it, every project gets a hard limit, and nothing is billed by usage.
$19 a month per box, plus about $10 for the server at Hetzner. Open source, so you can also run it yourself for free.