Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

I'm working on FreeInChicago, a site for finding all the free activities to do in the city.

I love Chicago and the incredible wealth of free festivals, museums, public art, music, parks, workshops, and so many more activities available to appreciate. I've found there isn't a good way to discover them though so I'm building the tool that I've always wanted. Right now I have a landing page up, have done some work on sourcing data, and I'm working towards defining a discovery interface.

https://freeinchicago.com/

Nice! I'm a fan of SF Funcheap https://sf.funcheap.com/ and always miss it when traveling to other cities. Another up-to-date local resource is something to look forward to.

Thanks for sharing! Seeing someone building something similar and being successful is incredibly energizing. I had doubts that it would be something folks would actually be interested in using.

My city used to have a similar site. It was great. Got an hour to kill? Check the site, find a nearby bar with live music and head on over.

It ultimately got shut down because no one wanted to pay for it, and people started posting spam instead of activities.

Nifty! I worked very briefly about 12 years ago on a similar concept that was live at chicago.com. Things didn’t work out with it for various reasons but while it was up I found it quite useful. Some of the original team is still in Chigaco and building stuff. Best of luck shipping it!