ABOUT EVENTULIST

EVENTULIST is an interactive map of every social event on Earth we can dig up — concerts, art exhibits, salsa nights, festivals, farmers markets, running events, soap making events and more, where you can command searches for any location, any radius, any time frame in the world, and our research pipeline goes out, reads every events calendar it can find, and drops one dot per real event on the map. Every community has a pulse. We just make it visible. We are in the “go outside and do things” business.

It started with one town (The Woodlands, Texas). Every search you run — and every search anyone else runs — adds to the map. Old data is never thrown away — the map only grows.

1. You type a place. Anywhere. A city, a village, that one island you keep meaning to move to. Pick a radius (miles or km), a time frame, and — if you’re feeling fancy — an event type like “dance events” or “art exhibits”, or hand it a list of source URLs (a venue’s calendar, your alma mater’s events page) to check in addition to the open internet.
2. Our research pipeline does the boring work. It takes your place, radius, and dates, and first maps the named places inside that radius (from OpenStreetMap — towns, neighborhoods, university campuses and all), so the whole area gets covered, not just the center town. Then it runs a batch of web searches across those places, fetches the most promising pages — event calendars, university bulletin boards, ticketing sites, anywhere events get posted — and a language model reads them and extracts the real events: real dates, real venues, real source links. If you drew a lopsided blob instead of a circle, it searches inside the blob. It has no social life. It just wants you to have one.
3. One dot per real event lands on the map. The results are merged against everything already on the map and the dots appear; the map refreshes when the search finishes. Your radius steers the search — it decides where the pipeline looks — but it isn’t a fence: if the research turns up a real event just outside the circle, it stays on the map, one dot, wherever it actually is. Searches run in parallel (yours doesn’t wait for anyone else’s), and the merge that adds dots is serialized so the map is always consistent.

Here’s the thing nobody asked for but everybody gets: our dedupe engine. When a tour comes through town, the same concert gets posted on the venue site, the ticketing site, the promoter’s site, the newspaper’s calendar, and three different event aggregators. Our engine merges listings that share the same date + a fuzzy match on venue + a similar name, and it does this transitively to show only one dot for the event.

If you see three dots at the same venue on the same day, there are three concerts. That’s accountability. When lots of events share a venue, the dots collapse into a numbered badge (we once saw a “38” — a busy venue with a busy fall). Click the badge, and the individual dots pop out like a reveal party.

Click any dot and the event opens in a box right over the map — name, date and time, a photo lifted from the event’s own listing page, venue, category, a description, a Get directions link, and an Event website button that goes straight to the event’s own page (we resolve calendar and ticket listing pages down to the specific show, so you don’t land on a venue’s “upcoming events” wall).

Those photos ride along on the event cards and in the sidebar list, so a familiar flyer catches your eye before you even click. And on desktop, a Map | List toggle in the topbar flips the whole view between the map and a scrollable list of the events in view — the map always opens first, and the divider between the list and the map can be dragged to size the list how you like.

While the box is open, the address bar carries the event’s own URL (/event/<id>) — copy it, bookmark it, send it. The chosen dot wears a black rim and pulses for a few seconds so you don’t lose it on a busy map, then settles; click anywhere else on the map and the box closes, the URL returns to the plain map view, and the highlight ends. The same URL pasted fresh reopens the event directly.

• Green — this week. GO NOW.
• Blue — next week. Good planning window.
• Red — next month. You have no excuse.
• Purple — after next month. For the long-haul planners.

Your first search is free. No account, no sign-up — one free trial search per browser, so you can watch the whole pipeline work before you spend a cent. We’re not in the security business; we’re in the “go outside and do things” business.

After the free trial, a real search costs about $0.20. Log in, load a small prepaid credit balance (minimum $5), search until it’s gone, and wonder where the time went. Searching on a grand scale? Focused bulk searches switch to per-event pricing for 300+ event sweeps. And if you want the map to keep working for you, there’s the Map Digest.

Your saved searches are only doing half their job. You searched once, found some great events — and then stopped looking, because looking is work and life happens. The venues you cared about kept posting, and the events you’d have loved went on without you. The Map Digest fixes that: $4.99/month, renewable until canceled, and it does the looking for you.

• It works while you sleep. Every week, during off-peak hours (2–5am UTC, when the internet is asleep), it quietly re-runs up to 3 of your saved searches — rolling the date window forward, so it’s always hunting the week ahead, not last week’s leftovers.
• It emails you only what’s new. One email with a map, the time-color dots (green = this week, blue = next, red = coming up), and your pinned favorites highlighted in gold — not last week’s list recycled.
• You hear about events while there’s still time — time for tickets, a babysitter, a brave friend. One glance a week, weekend planned.

The math: a single event you’d have gone to — one concert, one festival, one market — is worth more than $4.99. Less than a coffee a month, and it’s the difference between “I wish I’d known” and “I’m going.”

No tricks: the first digest lands right after you subscribe, so you see exactly what you’re paying for before you’ve paid for much. Cancel anytime — two clicks, no phone call, no guilt trip. A failed payment just pauses the digest. Your searches are already saved; the only question is whether they work for you, or sit idle.

Running an event of your own? List Your Event for a one-time $9.99 — a verified badge on the map, guaranteed, no search required. The fee comes out of your prepaid balance, and whatever’s left over keeps covering searches.

You don’t have to wait. The search runs in the background on the server. Look around the map, come back later — even close the tab. New events appear as soon as it finishes, and the status line tells you when it’s done. (Your browser tab even wears a tiny magnifier while the research is in flight, and swaps back when it lands.)

Want it in your inbox? Right after you submit, the search card offers to email the results when the search finishes — drop in your address and walk away. You’ll get the events (and a little map) by email, or a friendly note if nothing was found.

Searches run in parallel. If the map is busy, your search still starts right away — searches don’t queue up behind each other. What is serialized is the compile that merges new dots into the map, so the map never changes mid-read. If a search fails, the map is untouched and you’ll see why.