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Why do event sites suck? / Hacker News - http://news.ycombinator.com/item...
“You're missing the bigger picture. Forget about tight calendar integration and blah blah, that's a nice to have, and reasonably easy compared to the bigger problems. Event sites suck because they never have most of the events you want to go to. And without some fundamentally new way of learning about events, they never will. Events sites are trying to do something a lot harder than the typical Web 2.0 startup. They are trying to build an accurate and complete picture of the real world, with a constantly shifting time horizon of about a few weeks, out of relatively apathetic users and very flaky and fragmented and non-technologized players (promoters, fans, etc.).” - × × ×