Concaly is a website to help find conventions (like comic cons). It’s meant to help artists going to artist alleys find conventions to table at.
There’s a pretty deep pain point because there’s nothing like it right now. It directly helps artist alley artists make money. I know because it’s the tool I wish I had (which is why I built it)
The app is fully working and had good initial traction.
So why did I stop to move on to Mudboard?
My biggest problem when building ConCaly is: how do I keep the conventions up to date.
I discussed this issue more here:
But here’s a run down of the options (table copied from my writeup)
Pros | Cons (heh) | |
---|---|---|
Manual | - very accurate | - too many cons…. |
Scrape | - fully automated | - hard to do |
So you see, Scraping and Manual require a lot of continual and manual intervention.
And with something that requires a very high accuracy, it’s not worth the effort to manage this site for all eternity.
This is why we decided to ruthlessly build out the crowd source features: