Comments on: HearWhere Lets You Discover Live Music In Your Neighborhood

By: HearWhere: que bandas dão hoje à noite concertos na vossa cidade? | Remixtures

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:25:13 +0000

[...] esta semana fiquei a conhecer através do TechCrunch um site chamado HearWhere que oferece um motor de pesquisa de concertos que combina o Google Maps [...]

By: Todd Levy

Todd Levy — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:24:28 +0000

Pete –

Nice site, but with such a great front-end for finding local shows I’m surprised you don’t have affiliate links for concert tickets.

It’s not that hard to do, for example using eBay Partner Network.

Here’s my attempt… http://jamtopia.com/tickets/

Either way, keep up the great work.

P.S. Can’t believe it but there are more than 50 shows within 3 miles of me just this Friday!

By: Marcyes / Find live music anywhere

Marcyes / Find live music anywhere — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 05:47:22 +0000

[...] uses myspace to try and find live music in your area. update 10-28-08 – featured on Techrunch. [...]

By: Allen

Allen — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:08:19 +0000

… not to mention scraping profile data of bands. I’ve compared some of the data of bands that I know very well in my area, and it’s verbatim – and they did not enter the information on HearWhere.com.

Pretty sure anyone could scrape MySpace Music pages, parse out the data you want, geocode it, and apply the haversine formula to the currently logged in users location.

The Madtown Lounge has all original data and contrary to some posts, we’ve seen increased traffic nearly every month for two years.

Allen
http://www.madtownlounge.com

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Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:10:37 +0000

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By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:13:55 +0000

Same thing here, Pete – not flying under the radar but not getting picked up either. Seems if your efforts haven’t raised a pile of money that you wont get any mention. Good news is with the economic conditions in the US market, that most competitors wont last anyways unless you are making a profit. BTW – if you want to monetize your traffic with standard IAB ads, let me know. Even with 600,000 local concert fans visiting our sites, we dont have enough inventory for the ad agencies

By: Web 2.0 Sammelalbum - Web2Null - hearwhere

Web 2.0 Sammelalbum - Web2Null - hearwhere — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:34:12 +0000

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By: HearWhere at Andy’s Blog

HearWhere at Andy’s Blog — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:35:39 +0000

[...] James mentioned there is an article about them on TechCrunch, it lists a couple of their competitors. They all look pretty naff. [...]

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:17:19 +0000

Confused – i thought it was against the MySpace TOS to embed their player on an external site?

By: paul

paul — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 07:19:12 +0000

I’m sold. The minute I clicked over, and saw that I had no work to do – the bands and venues automatically showed up for Nashville – and I could click on them and immediately listen to their music – I was hooked. Very cool app – and I’ll probably be encouraging those I work with to work with it.

Pete, lets trade a sponsorship banner…

By: SV

SV — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 06:47:59 +0000

Here is a music site for lazy people: http://www.vibesparty.com

test it out peeps, I am sure you will like it.

By: Dwayne from Probably Sucks Blog

Dwayne from Probably Sucks Blog — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 05:51:35 +0000

This looks great. Too bad it’s just another web service that everyone will soon forget about because it’s not very innovative, Cuil fail anyone? Welcome to the Internet HearWhere, enjoy your stay while it lasts you’ll soon be dust like all the rest.

Dwayne.
http://probablysucks.com

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 05:14:30 +0000

Aside from the fact that Bellingham WA is -not- in Canada, this is the cat’s pajamas. I love the fact that it opens to my location, not something stupid like type-a-zip-code. nice work Pete!

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:42:30 +0000

Pete, funny i just found this site, even after doing a 15 week project for grad school last year. Let me know if you want me to send my business plan, maybe you could use it some how, theres a couple cool features that your site doesnt have.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:50:53 +0000

Hey Pete. Nice work!

By: bobby_d

bobby_d — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:01:49 +0000

hi. Pete. I was being facetious. I really do hope your site does well. I know I’ll be using it. 8-|

By: Pete Field

Pete Field — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:54:29 +0000

Hey Bobby_d!
Happy you like it. As the creator of HearWhere, I know how I get the data!
Now about that beer…
Or was that “someone else” referring to anybody but me?

By: bobby_d

bobby_d — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:47:40 +0000

I really like the implementation and idea. I’m still trying to figure out how HearWhere gets its data, perhaps myspace developer network, and funnelling data into its own db with the relevant info. All the other functionalities of this site are easy to reproduce.

Anyways, I think this site is a winner, so I’m gonna make a clone of it.

p.s. if someone else knows how HearWhere gets it’s data, I’ll buy you a beer.

By: Web2.0 Chick

Web2.0 Chick — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 01:08:52 +0000

Very nice app How I wish there’s a similar one that offers a selection of news clips…

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » HearWhereが、近所の音楽ライブを見つけてくれる

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » HearWhereが、近所の音楽ライブを見つけてくれる — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 01:03:06 +0000

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By: ep

ep — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:57:56 +0000

Wow thats really cool.. There I like doing live gigs but its always esoteric to try to find gigs in my area…

By: Pete Field

Pete Field — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:18:48 +0000

Hey Wisdoom, I had never heard of Amy MacDonald before either! That is part of the problem that is being solved.
With HearWhere you not only can find artists that are playing near you, you can also sample the music to help decide what to see.

I think that is what Nicholas was referring to. He might not have heard of Amy before either, but maybe he heard her on HearWhere and now is interested to go see her live.

By: Allen

Allen — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:09:40 +0000

I must ask, however: I personally know a lot of the bands that show up in my area – like almost all of them. I’m guessing they haven’t created an account on your site. I have a hunch – unfounded of course – that this data is being scraped from MySpace profiles. I can tell this by virtue of the addresses, genres listed, naming of shows, etc. I would be cautious!

By: Allen

Allen — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:54:30 +0000

Most social networking sites “scratch each other’s backs” so to speak. Sure, MySpace is the largest player, but even they allow bands to provide an additional URL – often times to smaller sites like ours.

By: wisdoom

wisdoom — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:48:32 +0000

Never heard of Amy MacDonald before. People like live music because it is live. This site doesn’t really solve the problem.