an lgbt events aggregator for the SF bay!
yes!
- anarchism.nyc is pretty neat! I wonder if the bay has one
- let's rewrite the codebase, (✨ but using a frontend framework that might deprecate in a few years ✨)
- let's spend an unreasonable amount of time making it look pretty, before getting any functionality xd
- let's have the client fetch everything; too lazy to get a server run (haha)
- CORS, my old friend... time look for a free CORS proxy :3
- wow the rate limit for Eventbrite sucks. I also don't want client auth...
- ok fine let's make a server
- ...what if we also added server-side rendering?
- ...what if... we hosted on Vercel, despite being in debt?
stale-while-revalidatearc: let's add excessive caching & rate limits so i can sleep at night- why does everyone use Instagram for events?
- Please stop using Instagram for events. Please stop using Instagram for events. (x100)
- to parse Instagram posts for anything resembling a structured event format, we would probably need to use GPT
- we should also DB server to cache the results so I don't bleed money from OpenAI calls. But Vercel is serverless, so can't use sqlite... pain....
- why do some Instagram posts... only include event information in the image??
- Please stop using Instagram for events. Please stop using Instagram for events. (x100)
- let's add an OCR AI API 🫠
- stares at Google's labyrinthian docs for 3 hours figuring out how to get auth
- ok, it works! but any of these calls might fail... let's sketchily add caching at each step
- (Please stop using Instagram for events. Please stop using Instagram for events.) (x10)
- suddenly running into Vercel's 10 sec timeout for Free tier (why does Eventbrite take so long??): more pain 😀. Fork $20/mo to Vercel for a 60 sec timeout instead
- open beta! (ꈍ ‿ ꈍ ✿)
- surprise surprise: Instagram's API is once again causing issues- 200 requests per hour (per user, of which there is 1 in this case). let's spread out the requests but milk that limit as much as possible.
- adds many various other APIs (Wix, Squarespace, With Friends, etc.)- not too bad but fearful that APIs make change/break at any time, haha...
- adds a frightening number of event sources all around the bay
- realize the potential endless API hell I've gotten myself into- takes a cold shower and puts up Donation link
TODO
Donations to keep bay.lgbt running are appreciated! Transparently, here are the costs to maintain the site:
- Domain: $7.5/mo
- Verce1: $20/mo
- OpenAI: ~$10/mo
- Google Vision OCR: ~$5/mo