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

https://blr.today - Working on an open-source stack to curate events happening in Bangalore. It curates events from multiple sources, cleans them up, then curates them further by tagging them nicely, and making all event data available as calendars you can subscribe to.

Decided on a GPL/AGPL/ODBL license for the scraper/website/dataset. https://blr.today/license

My Core-thesis[0] on why I think this is worth building:

1. The vast majority of events in aggregator websites are low-quality, and often filled with spam. The aggregators make money by listing lots of events.

2. Small venues hosting cool events will not always publicize them on the aggregator platforms.

3. The best UX for event discovery is your existing calendar app.

4. Events are highly structured data - but this is often not captured.

I've been wanting to build this for almost 6 years now, finally getting around to it.

[0]: https://blr.today/about/

I updated my ideas repo last week with some more of my ideas.

https://github.com/captn3m0/ideas

If any of these sounds like fun, take a look:

* A physical variable fuzzy clock

* A curl impersonation proxy

* A Whisper UX Design Pattern

* Mobile App Traffic RE Platform

* One-Page (RSVP|EventHosting) Platform on Edge Compute

* Price Index for Indian Grocery Websites