It's always refreshing seeing a feature-rich project coming from a single person, so thanks for working on this.
I know that this is a tangential question, but how much did the domain cost? I'm curious as someone who often considers building personal projects solely due to domain novelty, and a domain like hi.events seems like it would cost a small fortune!
Sorry, missed this comment. Thanks you! The domain was ~$120 USD, if I recall correctly. Still a lot for a domain, but not as much as I would have expected for a premium domain.
I previously created Attendize, another popular open source ticketing platform. I sold it back in 2018, and unfortunately the new owners have abandoned it. So I decided to create a better alternative.
Overall it took me the lion's share of a year. Mostly working for a couple of hours in the evenings.
I started writing Attendize about 11 years ago when I had very little professional experience. As a result, the code is quite terrible and difficult to customize and extend.
With Hi.Events, I designed the API first, making it more robust and open to extension. One of the most frequent requests for Attendize was for more flexible ticketing options, such as ticket tiers and donation tickets. I've incorporated these features into Hi.Events, along with much more powerful attendee management and customization features.
awesome. :) i should maybe mention that i organize https://ai.engineer, which used ti.to. tito worked well for us, very little complaints except that coupons were laborious to create and maybe it could have been easier to aggregate different stages of ticket between early bird/late bird/general admission for data analysis
