Beacon - Tech Events Aggregator
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Overview
A platform that aggregates and displays tech events, primarily focused on the Israeli tech community. Beacon helps tech professionals discover, track, and attend relevant events through intelligent aggregation, smart filtering, and seamless calendar integration.
The Challenge
Tech professionals struggle to discover and keep track of relevant tech events across multiple sources. Events are scattered across various websites, social media platforms, and newsletters, making it difficult to find events that match interests, location, and schedule.
The Solution
Built a comprehensive tech events aggregator that automatically collects events from multiple sources using AI-powered web scraping. The platform uses Firecrawl API and OpenAI to intelligently extract event information from websites, normalizes location data, and presents events in an intuitive interface with full Hebrew language support and RTL layout.
Key Features
- ✓Event Discovery with calendar and list views
- ✓Smart Filtering by location, date, and event type
- ✓Calendar Export to Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, or ICS
- ✓Event Registration and attendance tracking
- ✓Hebrew Support with RTL layout and text detection
- ✓Google OAuth authentication
- ✓AI-Powered Scraping using Firecrawl + OpenAI
- ✓Scheduled Scraping for automatic synchronization
- ✓Admin Sources Manager for URL management
- ✓User Management with role management