events.lj

Where it started

@events.lj posts a weekly guide to everything happening in Ljubljana on Instagram, a few hundred events every week. All of it was done by hand: following venues and organisers, keeping a spreadsheet and typing out a carousel every Wednesday. The owner wanted the same guide as a real website people check every day, and much less manual work behind it.

The build

A guide that feels like an app: a date strip and a month view, categories and filters, a strip for festivals and exhibitions that run all week, a personal schedule saved on the phone, calendar export, swipe gestures, and a one-tap Instagram story of your week. Each event links straight to where you can buy a ticket. Behind it, the admin replaces the old spreadsheet: events come in on their own, duplicates are merged, and the editor checks and approves instead of typing. The weekly Instagram carousel is built from the same data. A built-in AI assistant helps with the editing, and nothing it changes is final until a person says so.

• App-like guide: date strip, month view, filters, swipe gestures, dark mode
• Direct ticket links for 680+ events
• Personal schedule plus a one-tap Instagram story
• Admin instead of a spreadsheet: events arrive on their own, the editor approves
• Weekly Instagram carousel built from the data
• AI assistant for the editing, every change reviewed and undoable
• Slovenian and English, shareable event links, calendar feeds

Where it stands

From a hand-kept spreadsheet to a live platform in two weeks. The guide now lists about 1,400 upcoming events, over 680 of them with a direct ticket link, and the weekly carousel that used to take an evening comes out of the data. The editor's job moved from typing to checking.

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