Show HN: I built TicketData – Ticket price trends and data for Sports & Concerts
ticketdata.com14 years ago, I launched my original version of TicketData via a Show HN. While the public site didn't get traction, the data proved valuable to those in the ticketing industry, and it became a B2B data product that's kept me busy ever since. I'm now relaunching the front-end site as a totally free and public tool for anyone to make smarter decisions when buying tickets for live events.
The re-launched site shows live resale price charts (using data from sites like StubHub, Vivid Seats, SeatGeek, etc) that update as often as every few minutes. You can see price history for the cheapest tickets ("Get In Price"), or for pre-defined zones (like Floor seats), or you can set up your own custom zone across any sections or rows (for example "Floor Center, Rows 1-10"). You can also set alerts for when prices go above or below whatever threshold you set.
Many of the larger events also include a forecast of where prices will go next. Those are based on years of historical data combined with the live data and other inputs (like sales data and a whole bunch of other variables…opponent, day of week, venue capacity, etc) passed through a model built in XGBoost. I'm slowly rolling out the forecast feature to more events as the models get refined and I'm confident in the accuracy for different event types/genres.
In addition to all the data for upcoming events, there are currently about 2.5 years of historical data live on the site. If there is sustained interest, I'll work on getting data all the way back to 2011 loaded in.
Here are a few examples:
[Upcoming Event] Paul McCartney next week: https://www.ticketdata.com/events/12435572
[Past Event] Kansas City Chiefs vs. Las Vegas Raiders (Monday Night) https://www.ticketdata.com/events/1174976
All 8 of Oasis's North American concerts this summer: https://www.ticketdata.com/events/compare?ids=1006457%2C1006...
Or to see your cheapest local shows happening this weekend, click the "Local" + "This Weekend" filters on the homepage: https://www.ticketdata.com/
Feedback appreciated!
> using data from sites like StubHub, Vivid Seats, SeatGeek, etc
Congrats! That is inspiring you kept the passion for this for over 14 years. I’m assuming your data needs changed over this timespan so how did you end up getting this data? APIs, scraping, something else?
Great job. The UI is clean and easy to use.
What were your biggest challenges while working on this?
Appreciate it. A lot of challenges, one of the most difficult that sticks out was building out the ability for users to track prices on a custom zone that they define (Sections 101+102, rows 1-4), and making it so that the price trend for this zone would show up retroactively (back to when the event went onsale), not just to "start tracking" prices in that zone once the user created it. There's a lot of cleaning of data that goes on for this, since different sellers might use slightly different section names for the same section, to ensure that you're including all the ticket listings that you should be.
Nice! You should consider offering an API.
Thanks! It’s definitely something a few people have mentioned, for now I’m keeping the focus on the public site and the experience there. I want to prove that it's viable as a consumer-facing product.