I wanted to share something I’ve been building that I think this community specifically will appreciate, y’all are literally the definition of people who care about what’s happening in this city.
I built The Move, a free event discovery app built specifically for the Raleigh-Durham area. The whole idea came from a simple frustration: there’s no good single place to find out what’s going on locally. You’re either scrolling through Eventbrite hoping something shows up, checking 5 different venue Instagram pages, or just…missing stuff. The Move fixes that.
What it does:
The app pulls events from Eventbrite, Ticketmaster, posh.vip, and local venues and puts them all in one place. No more hopping between platforms. You can browse events on an interactive map (super useful if you’re trying to find something close to where you live or work downtown), or switch to a list or calendar view depending on how you like to plan. Dark mode is in there too for the night owls.
Features worth knowing about:
Map view — see events plotted across the Triangle so you can find stuff near you
Favorites — save events you’re interested in
Voting — upvote events you’re excited about
Sponsored listings — local venues and promoters can get their events featured
User logins — create an account to sync your favorites across devices
What’s coming soon:
We’re about to roll out a native ticketing feature that’ll let event organizers create events and sell tickets directly through the app, at fees that significantly undercut Eventbrite and Posh. If you’re an event organizer or promoter in the area, that’s going to be worth paying attention to. I also plan to expand to other cities in the coming months, after the app is more established in the Triangle. iOS and Google Play apps are also in the pipeline.
Why this community specifically:
Y’all talk about downtown Raleigh development, local businesses, and the growth of this city more than anyone. The Move is literally built for people like you, people who actually want to be out in the city experiencing what’s here. If you’ve ever complained that Raleigh doesn’t have enough going on (we all have), part of the solution is just knowing where to look. This is that.
Check it out at themove.events! it’s free, no catch. Would love to hear feedback from people who actually know this city well. Drop your thoughts here or hit me directly.
Seconded. Absolutely amazing and much needed! Thank you for putting this together!
Since you asked, I am seeing a number of events that appear to have the wrong location. It’s easy enough to click through and see where they are, but they’re appearing in the wrong places on the map. Here are three of them:
Thank you for the feedback! And yeah this is a well-known issue, honestly it’s probably been my #1 recurring issue throughout the development process over the last 6 months. For map pins, there are two ways the location is determined: automatic geocoding or adding coordinates for the venue manually (usually what I do if geocoding doesn’t work). The geocoding tool I built caches most venue coordinates correctly, but every now and then when new events/venues are scraped, the geocoding tool will sometimes bug out and incorrectly pin a venue to the wrong location on the map. You’ll even notice a big cluster of events (22 at the time of writing this) that default to the NC State Capital downtown. This is due to the geocoding for those venues not working or generic venue names (Downtown Raleigh, Raleigh, Location TBA, etc.) causing these events to default to the center of Raleigh (which just so happens to be the capitol). These issues are typically fixed (for good) if I override it by adding the venue coordinates manually, but every now and then I’ll have a couple of venues that don’t like to place nice even after I manually add coordinates (‘Le Dive’ is notorious for this).
Nevertheless, I am looking to remedy this issue permanently without having to intervene every week, because new venues are being scraped all the time as new events pop up throughout the year, so I will be adjusting the geocoding tool some more this week. And I don’t think any of the venues you pointed out about have coordinates manually assigned to them, so manually adding coordinates for all of those particular venues should do the trick. It may be some weeks/months until the geocoding issue is permanently resolved though, so in the meantime feel free to hit me up anytime you see something like this! Having more eyes on this a huge help since I’m busy with marketing and everything else nowadays mostly.
If there’s any demand for it, I can actually build out a tool for users to report incorrect map pins directly in the app - let me know if you’d be interested in that and I can add that this week as well.
I think a tool to flag incorrect map signs would be great! That way, you can crowdsource the effort some rather than having to do it all yourself, which I imagine could turn into a lot of work (especially if you plan on porting this over to other cities).
The map pins for the 3 venues you referenced (Trophy Brewing, Marbles, and Transfer Co.) are all fixed now.
I’ve also implemented a ‘Report Incorrect Map Pin’ feature, screenshots are attached.
First, you click the incorrect map pin and that’ll open the event modal. Here you click the venue name (the blue link within the bounding box).
Then, the associated venue modal will appear. Here you select the ‘Report Incorrect Pin’ button.
Finally, the ‘Report Incorrect Pin’ prompt appears. Here you can describe the issue as well as provide your email address (if you’d like to be notified when the issue is resolved).
