How to do human driven party recommendation

[phoenixxxx]

Constant brain storm.

[phoenixxxx]

[8:29]
​Venue Calendar Brute Force​ (1) Find a bunch of venue calendars in your area (2) Hand copy the calendar data into excel. Artist, venue, date (3) Do a search of all user’s favorite artists against calendar excel (4) If rejected ask user why. (1) Don’t like artist? (2) Too far? (3) Too expensive? (4) Bad timing (edited)

8:30 Next time we can suggest concerts custom to their needs. For example… if the venue is still too far we can say… “This venue is a little far, but maybe you’d still like to see X"

[8:33]
and we keep track of user responses so we are covered there

rishi.gupta [10:13 PM]
Sure, and that’s the start of something we can do algorithmically also. So we can start to automate portions of that process slowly. Eg: Automate scraping the calendars.

[phoenixxxx]

http://www.slideshare.net/MrChrisJohnson/algorithmic-music-recommendations-at-spotify https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/get-recommendations/

Useful links above

[Gene-Walters]

1) Google "Live Music 'your_city_name_here'" 2) Open all venues and view their calendar 3) Copy venue calendar (band names, venue name, date-time) into excel 4 a) Naively search for all parties top artists in the concert excel file b) Use Spotify API to recommend other artists and search for these in the convert excel file 5) Rinse & Repeat anytime (1)users are added or (2)spotify data is updated or (3) excel calendar goes out of date

[phoenixxxx]

Punting to Post MVP, to have it follow us around.