TurnOut allowed users to discover the best events for their night out, tailored to their preferences.
Having been a long-standing student at the University of Kent, many new students would ask me for suggestions about the nearby nightlife - TurnOut was the solution to this problem.
A survey was given to students to discover how they found out about events and what was most important to them when searching for an event.
The proprietary recommendation algorithm incorporated these findings to provide a personalised event ranking for each user.
Prior to the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica scandal, TurnOut was successfully running in Canterbury for over a year. Facebook has since restricted access to their events API to select partners which has impacted many apps and services which relied on that data. TurnOut is currently on-hold until this issue is resolved.