Show HN: A platform to find tech conferences, discounts, and ticket giveaways

https://www.tech.tickets/

by danthebaker • 1 year ago

105 37 1 year ago

I created a platform that compiles tech conferences in one place - not just the when and where, but also the best discount codes and free ticket giveaways! Feedback and suggestions are welcome as I continue to refine it.

rbanffy• 1 year ago

Looks great. Only suggestion I have would be to be able to search by multiple properties- city and technology are the two that come to mind.

danthebaker10• 1 year ago

Good shout, thanks.

chevman• 1 year ago

Best way to get free tickets is to ask the sponsoring vendors/companies directly I've found - can play either the 'I'm a current customer' card, or the 'I'm considering your solution seriously' card.

Have gotten many free tickets, dinners, sports tix, etc that way over the years!

EGreg2• 1 year ago

How exactly do you contact them and ask? Can you give an example

kunzhi• 1 year ago

Sales people are always happy to talk to you. :)

Y-bar3• 1 year ago

Nice idea. But I can’t navigate the site on my phone. For example: I try to press on any ”want ticket” link (I think it is a link since it is coloured and underlined) but my browser just selects it as regular text. Same with both Firefox and Safari.

Y-bar3• 1 year ago

Okay, I am on a desktop now and why are you using a span with an event listener as a link when an <a href> would do?

    <span class="text-primary underline hover:text-primary-dark transition-colors font-medium text-xs cursor-pointer">Want tickets?</span>

danthebaker10• 1 year ago

Good question! I went this route as it prevents the default navigation behaviour for the event row (which has click handling on the parent element to navigate to an event page and this span overrides that behavior locally).

farco12• 1 year ago

Nice idea. Balkans Crypto shows up under the North America tab. It's in Tirana, Albania.

danthebaker10• 1 year ago

Well spotted! This was an error with the scraper. I've fixed this now. :-)

supportengineer• 1 year ago

I would expect it to get my location and be able to sort by the distance. And also to sort by time. So I can see the closest and the nearest.

danthebaker10• 1 year ago

Great idea! Why didn't I think of this?!? I'll get this added. :-D

danthebaker10• 1 year ago

This is now implemented! Thanks again for the suggestion.

swyx2• 1 year ago

hi OP! i run the AI Engineer conference which is coming up soon and was pleasantly surprised to see this here :)

HOWEVER this link: https://www.tech.tickets/event/ai-engineering-world-fair-a9a...

links to the WRONG conference!!!! it is at https://ai.engineer/ and tickets are at https://ti.to/software-3/ai-engineer-worlds-fair-2025

discounts do exist for loyal latent.space listeners and ainews subscribers but i wont make them that easy :)

(for those who are between jobs and just getting into AI Eng, here's a good one for you: HNEXPO - we put all talks up on youtube on a delay: https://www.youtube.com/@aidotengineer but really the value is the live interactions/hallwaytrack )

airstrike• 1 year ago

Thanks for that! Subscribed!

danthebaker10• 1 year ago

So sorry for getting the wrong link. I blame my AI Agent! I've just updated this.

Good luck with the conference. If you do have any spare tickets, I'd love to run a quick giveaway. ;-)

swyx2• 1 year ago

email swyx at ai.engineer lets work something out

lmk size of your mailing list etc

muditjai• 1 year ago

Thanks for organizing and running this conference! Do you know how long will it take for talks to be uploaded on youtube?

I was checking for last year's (2024) videos and it seems they were added in the last 8 to 3 months, so about a 4 to 9 month delay. Wondering if it will be similar delay for 2025 conference?

moralestapia• 1 year ago

Great domain, and great idea!

I've been looking for something like this for a while, I usually take a look at the lu.ma featured page but not everything is in there, hope one day your tool hast all of them.

Congrats on the launch!

danthebaker10• 1 year ago

Thanks so much :-)

gitroom• 1 year ago

pretty cool work imo - always find the bits about scoring deals way more interesting than just listings. you think people care more about meeting others or getting access to new info at these events?

rubitxxx6• 1 year ago

Relying on others to submit events seems like it could be difficult to maintain.

Why not use apis to search engines to find events, then use an LLM to evaluate which need to be added, and automatically maintain a database that identifies events in various languages, then automatically uses contact information from those sites to work with those managing the events?

danthebaker10• 1 year ago

Thanks. The data is currently populated by scraping a bunch of sites and APIs. I added the manual 'add form' just in case my scraper missed some events.

al_borland2• 1 year ago

Red Hat Summit is going on right now. I don’t see it listed. May be another source to add to the list.

https://www.redhat.com/en/summit

SuperShibe• 1 year ago

try to find events around may 30
click "See more events" 2 times
still only see events til may 23
click "See more events" once again
page starts lagging, nothing happens
try to click "See more events" again
more events suddenly load
get clickjacked onto some random guys LinkedIn

this could be a simple html table for the entire year 2025 and be both more performant and more comfortable to use

mdavid626• 1 year ago

Why make it simple, when you can make it complicated?

ivolimmen• 1 year ago

Could not find the tech conference "Joy of coding" (I am one of the organizers) but then again we do not offer discounts as we try to keep the tickets as low as possible. We do offer a small set of diversity and student tickets for a lower price.

thih9• 1 year ago

I’m seeing a list of conferences, and for each a popup is saying:

Sorry, we don't currently have any offers for this event. Register your interest to be notified when something becomes available.

danthebaker10• 1 year ago

The current ticket giveaways are all listed here... https://www.tech.tickets/?view=offers.

For the events that get a lot of interest, I approach the organisers for discount codes and to see if they will donate tickets.

binoyp• 1 year ago

Looks great!

danthebaker10• 1 year ago

Thanks :-)

al_borland2• 1 year ago

It would be good to be able to filter by date as well as location. I was on vacation in Denmark one year and stumbled across a tech conference. I listed to a couple talked, but had I known in advance I may have looked at what was most interesting to me and planned around it a little.

ms7892• 1 year ago

Cool design and logo. Wondering which font you used in for the logo

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