Track 09GDG Brooklyn
Side Quest NYC
SideQuest NYC is a personalized event discovery app for people who want spontaneous, local things to do without digging through dozens of websites. Users can search by voice or filters like interest, budget, location, and vibe to find nearby events happening now or in the next few days. The cool part is that it understands requests like “find something low-key and not too crowded” and turns them into tailored recommendations.
“One of the biggest challenges was accurately scraping event locations and times from multiple websites, since each source formatted its data differently. Normalizing inconsistent dates, addresses, and missing information made it difficult to produce reliable real-time recommendations.”