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Tech Jargon · Project № 04

Concert Finder

A friend who works at every venue in town, remembers every band you like, and texts you the second tickets drop.

The Analogy

The plugged-in friend you wish you had.

You've missed shows. Everyone has. The band you loved came through in March, played a 300-cap room, and you found out in April when a friend posted a photo. By then, the tour was two cities away.

The problem isn't that you don't care. It's that tour calendars live in fifteen different places — venue sites, ticket platforms, artist socials — and none of them know what you actually listen to. This tool fuses the two halves: what you play on repeat, and who's playing in your zip code this month.

The best shows aren't the ones you find. They're the ones that find you, early enough to matter.
How It Works

Taste meets geography.

Input
It reads your taste.
Pulls your top artists from Spotify (or wherever you listen) plus any you've marked as must-see. That's your signal.
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Transform
It checks the calendar.
Cross-references tour data from ticket and venue APIs against your city, your range, and your date window.
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Output
You get a show feed.
A ranked list of gigs worth going to, with direct ticket links and an early alert when an artist you love announces a date.
Under the Hood

What's actually running.

Taste Source Spotify API Pulls your listening history and top artists — the input that makes this feed personal instead of generic.
Show Source Ticket APIs Tour data from Ticketmaster, Songkick, and similar. Covers tens of thousands of active artists and venues.
Matcher Overlap Engine The logic that crosses your taste with the calendar, filters by distance, and ranks by how badly you'd regret missing it.
Messenger Alerts Push or email notifications when a must-see artist drops a new date in your range. Early warning, not a weekly digest.
Why it's built this way

The real engineering isn't in any one piece — it's in keeping the pipes unblocked. Spotify's API changes. Ticket vendors rotate. Venues add and drop listings. The system is built so each source can be swapped or added without breaking the rest.

Why It Matters

Live music is time-sensitive.

Tickets for the best rooms sell out in minutes. Headline tours get announced months in advance. The gap between "knowing about a show" and "getting into it" is often measured in hours, not days.

Closing that gap, for a small personal list of artists you actually care about, turns into better nights out, smaller venues, and concerts you'll remember. The tech is a means to that — nothing more.