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Submitted by: leonleaf
Created: Nov 10, 2006, 2:19 am

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Ever live in a city forever and not know the secret spots with awesome ambiance and additude? Just move somewhere and looking for a new dive to become a regular at? This site would allow members of a community to list and rate their favorite bars and hangouts in whatever city they are in. The administration would pick monthly thier quottop tenquot must see places and the members would be able to provide anecdotes and rate bars on various attributes ranging from drink stength to how nice the barstaff is. the site itself would generate funds from advertisement and could sponser events (like nation wide pub crawls) to make a name for temselves. Bars themselves would be able to promote their events on the site and have their own quotmemberquot pages with bartender bios and drink specialties. Basically this would be a specific web community for bars. They can have their own live feeds etc. Because one of the basic desires of Bars is to drum up clientelle and this would help with that.

I thought of this idea when I was...

drinking at home, about to leave san diego and two of my favorite bars ever; the zombie lounge and the tower. It would have been nice to have learned about these places about 2 months earlier. SO there you go.

Comments Posted

Abi Posted: November 10, 2006, 2:45 pm

Great idea and could also be used for great coffee shops, interesting book shops, gyms all sorts. Revenue could all come from a subscription to reduce the temptation to 'falsify' submissions.

motiggidy Posted: November 13, 2006, 10:55 am

Hmmm, theres lots of venue review style sites out there. A site more focusing in onto bars may be doable. Maybe it would be cool if you could post videos in it.

Jams Posted: November 15, 2006, 1:15 pm

Sounds good, but we have loads of sites like that here in the UK and plenty of pub guides in the book shops.

leonleaf Posted: November 15, 2006, 1:49 pm

ok, take those pub guides and mix it with social networking sites like myspace. ON this website (the one in question) bartenders and bar owners will have their own pages and talk about upcoming events and drink specials and specialties and bios etc. There would be a place for anectdotes and other such things, which would separate this from the books and other sites of this nature.

Deckard Posted: November 22, 2006, 8:58 am

Night life social network is a good idea! You can combine it with for-free presentations of bars, if they agree to have a webcam installed inside.

The problem is that all bars look ugly on webcams, and there is also a privacy problem. But if you put a filter between each cam and the viewer, which would animate, anonymize and beautify what you see on the cam, then that i would like :)

I don't suppose we need to use filters that are CPU intensive. Also (i'm thinking about it as i write), you can set different filters for different types of establishments.

Jams Posted: November 27, 2006, 1:07 am

leonleaf:Ah, OK that is a good twist, makes it much more unique,

El_Jivaro Posted: December 1, 2006, 2:19 pm

How would you keep viewership up? When someone finds a local joint, that's their place...no need to log back in, no? That's what I would question if someone brought the idea to me asking for advertising dollars.

techguy Posted: February 3, 2007, 6:09 pm

This sounds like city search. I don't think the minor twists you suggest would differentiate it enough from other website listings like city search.

I know, I tried to do something kind of similar when I was in college.

CyberCerberus Posted: February 11, 2007, 10:39 am

I completely agree with techguy and El_Jivaro on this. I just don't see that this idea has legs.

Tijs Posted: February 13, 2007, 2:34 am

this is a pretty well done version of your idea: http://www.pubwalk.com/

Brenden Posted: May 10, 2007, 5:31 pm

lots of similar things

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