This was again and again my experience when I was looking for, mostly in my case, Berlin startup events.
Using multiple sites, throwing keywords at them, getting back some nice results but layered between spammy stuff or random remote events.
I was never satisfied and had the impression that there aren’t that many events.
Today I know, there are actually a lot – I just missed them.
Why do I know? I hacked together a tiny crawler, commanded it to check for all relevant keywords on multiple sites and BAAAM I was flashed to learn that there are up to a dozen events per day!
I wrapped it in some really basic design, even sprinkled in a bit of AI for some basic tagging.
Voila, finally I had the thing I wanted: One simple list of all startup events in Berlin.
I’ve put it online and now updating it a few times per week to share the fun with everyone.
Let me know if you have feature wishes or feedback.