This morning.
Dublin Club Guide, a website aimed at ‘making it much easier for Dublin clubgoers to decide where they want to go’ has just gone live.
Founder Graham Phillips writes:
‘At present, the market is completely saturated with misinformation, wrong information and in some cases, no information about what Dublin’s nightlife can provide consumers. We feel that this is very bad for businesses in Dublin as choice is being hampered with the absence of clear and precise information to allow the consumer choose where they would like to go’
We are a new start-up company and as a 23-year-old year old, I felt that there was a gap in the market that needed to be plugged and solved.’
Reviews welcome below
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Fair play, give this man a government grant.
The hordes of people aimlessly wandering the streets of Dublin every night with no idea where in the hell to go should have been addressed a long time ago.
It’s great to see someone taking the initiative to solve this most serious problem of our time, and keeping themselves gainfully employed, by setting up a website.
It’s misinformation about club nights and events that has the potential to bring this country down!
YOKES?
I think you know the answer to that one, Sarah.
This site actually provides me with less information than the mailshot from Resident Advisor which usually covers off everything I need. I suppose it depends on your definition of clubbing…..(ie Coppers is featured heavily)
Great idea, best of luck with the venture, take no notice of the trolls and comics.
I also am a new commenter and have no bias or investment in this project which I fully endorse and is in no way a pointless endeavour.
I know it’s only rock n roll. But I like it
as said above, coppers is hardly clubbing.
It’s an excellent idea for a website though — might i suggest giving categories of music type in addition to nights of the week? House, minimal, industrial, goth, lounge, disco, etc. Cos we know there’s stuff on, but we don’t know what kinda music it is.
and yes i see there’s categories in the page of the club night itself but a drop-down menu would be ace
That’s a good idea…better if we could search by genre.
+1
or maybe a search by how aggressive the bouncers are, how much a beer is, the prevalence of adulterated pills and whether or not the club has a guy who works in the jax.
I think closing times would be handy as well.
Well that would mean it would be in writing that Copper’s doesn’t stick to licensing laws. Can’t have that now.
Every couple of years some 23 year old launches a site exactly like this. It usually disappears In two years when they grow up and it gets lumped onto their cv. Job done.
I can see the foot mat at your door “Those who don’t try, never fail.”
Is it a Homerism?
I remember when the GPO Nite Club in Galway managed to claim the URL http://www.clubbing.com and were offered truck loads of money for it at the time. (To younger readers… there was an early ‘gold rush’ at the beginning of the internets with cyber squatters and legits buying names and many trading for millions of dollars)
Anyway, googling ‘clubbing.com’ now brings up that the company is in liquidatrion…. http://www.solocheck.ie/Irish-Company/Clubbingcom-Limited-322110
Shoulda sold it during the gold rush Ted…. only worth a few bob now… http://www.siteprice.org/website-worth/www.clubbing.com
Good luck with this… and I’ll second Hoop’s recommendation
Microsoft own it now! Sold on 06-03-2007
Someone made out on that domain.
Thanks for the dormant memory, completely forgot about that site
2007? ….early crash, sell the assets? …who knows…
Wow, the GPO. They also ran the clubbing magazine and closed it suddenly without paying any of their writers. they should have sold the web domain, paid their writers and had a big party. A few months after the magazine closed the GPO owner was pictured in a UK music magazine wearing a leprechaun hat – these two events are entirely unrelated.
Let’s not forget Tom OC’s attempt with clubbing.ie and his very costly attempt at a hip hop career.
add a search by genre and it would make it better. best of luck with the new venture.
“Spread the word and help us change the face of night’s out in Dublin.”
We’re going to need a copywriter, Graham.
Looks good, nice UI. As mentioned before, filtering by genre would be good, as would filtering by entry price. Something to consider for a later version would be reviews maybe? There are a lot of clubs with very strict entry policies and some with downright w*nker bouncers so that might give people a clue before they head out.
Club M? Coppers? no thanks.
– As everyone is saying, you need to have a search-by-genre option. People will scroll through and get tired of filtering through (in their opinion) a lot of crap, so they won’t come back to the site the next time.
– It may be just me, but the clubs are all pretty tacky and/or dull and predictable options.
– With each click, you need to link to the club’s Facebook page or website for more information. Again, people won’t come back to your site if that’s all that is there. Maybe you can do a paying deal for each click through to their sites from yours?
– More samples on each club night of the music being played from the artists or DJs. I’m not great with mash-ups of genres, some things listed as techno I have loved on entering the club and some I have been in seven shades of hell.
– On the sly, more club nights needed where people can get mashed. As Sarah Murphy asks “Yokes?”
jesus….for a moment I thought this was a comment by lorcan nagle.
Well holy God , there’s a club night called C.U.N.T. http://www.dublinclubguide.com/tuesday-club-night-events-dublin/#/cunt/
I know, naff or what.
Down Galway in the early 90s we had ‘Ruby Tuesday’ in Salthill. The weekend started that night…and finished on Sunday :)
PS. There is NO money in this venture. Have some fun with it but don’t expect anything back.