Nirbai – map first event platform

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Nirbai – map first event platform

One of my first projects after discovering the power of coding was to build an event aggregator in my city. The first version was very basic, built in python’s Tkinter. After moving to a bigger city where everything was new, the problem became a bit different. I didn’t know where all the venues were at, so I had this idea to put various events on the map. Since I was mostly interested in parties at that time we’ve also connected the events to Soundcloud API. That version didn’t live long. When I got older parties were not in my interest anymore. So when my companion showed me the vast amount of diverse events available on Facebook, we’ve restarted the project in a new form and design. Just before launching it, Facebook got in into the infamous data scandal which made them close the public facing event API. The whole app was dependent on it, so I just let it go… 7 years later, I decided to revive it. Here it is today with numerous cities and events including the music player: nirbai.com On the top you can select cities, categories and time of the day. In the bottom left you have the music player with venues (accessible in landscape view on mobile). You can switch between tracks, artists and venues (events). If you share your location, it will sort in the events based on your proximity. You can also search in specific area after clicking on one of the events on the map. Saved events currently only live in localStorage, no cross device support. One can also do text based search for finding specific keywords in event descriptions. Hint: you can also search by zipcode. Looking forward to your thoughts!