blr.today / about

blr.today is an open-source project by Nemo that curates events happening in Bangalore.

It curates events from multiple sources, cleans them up, then curates them further by tagging them nicely, and making all event data available as calendares you can subscribe to.

Core Thesis

My attempt at explaining why I think this is worth doing:

1. The vast majority of events in aggregator websites are low-quality, and often filled with spam¹ The aggregators make money by listing lots of events.

2. Small venues hosting cool events will not always publicize them on the aggregator platforms.

3. The best UX for event discovery is your existing calendar app.

4. Events are highly structured data - but this is often not captured.

Roadmap

Ultimately, my master plan is to give you your own personalized calendar feed, where you get infinite customizability², and create a calendar which will include:

• Highly Rated movies in “language-of-your-choice” on Friday evenings at “your closest theater”
• F1 screenings, but only in your favorite pub
• Quizes in Indiranagar/Koramangala
• All events hosted in Bookstores
• All Dance Workshops in “JP Nagar”

and so on…

You can see my TODO list for the project at /roadmap.

History

This project is born out of a very old idea of mine, when it was called gardencity.events³. The original idea was to create a Bangalore specific clone of we build! sg ⁴, which was a website automatically curating maker events in Singapore. My first attempt in 2018 went nowhere. It was further pushed by the success of Putting Scenes (now Venn) - event curation seemed like an interesting problem to solve.