Ask HN: How do you choose comedians to watch live?

1 alastairr 2 7/20/2025, 1:15:57 PM

Prompted by Edinburgh Fringe festival which is starting soon, but in general it's really hard to remember who you like, find names of comics you might like. Interested in any services or tools that you use. I was hoping that some kind of AI personalisation app might be out there!

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al_borland · 6h ago

I check out some of their stuff and if I like their vibe or they make me laugh, I’ll go see them. I just make sure to only check out a joke or two, not a full set. I made that mistake once, where I saw a comic live, and after the first 5 minutes, I had heard every joke before. That wasn’t very fun.

alganet · 7h ago

I'm not very good at comedic sources, so I look for recommendations on old reddit posts.

Piramidal (YC W24) is hiring a full stack engineer (ycombinator.com)

Mango Health (YC W24) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)

Resolve (YC W15) Is Hiring an Operations and Billing Lead for Construction VR

Arva AI (YC S24) Is Hiring an AI Research Engineer (London, UK) (arva.ai)

Rejoy Health (YC W21) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)

Weave (YC W25) is hiring an AI engineer (ycombinator.com)

CoinTracker (YC W18) is hiring to solve crypto taxes and accounting (remote)

Crimson (YC X25) is hiring founding engineers in London (ycombinator.com)

Martin (YC S23) Is Hiring Founding Engineers to Build a Better Siri (ycombinator.com)

Meticulous (YC S21) is hiring in UK to redefine software dev (tinyurl.com)

Infisical (YC W23) Is Hiring DevRel Engineers (ycombinator.com)

Sieve (YC X25) is hiring researchers to build large video datasets for AI labs (sievedata.com)

Activeloop (YC S18) Is Hiring AI Search and Python Back End Engineers(Onsite,MV) (careers.activeloop.ai)

Attimet (YC F24) – Quant Trading Research Lab – Is Hiring Founding Researcher (ycombinator.com)

Metriport (YC S22) is hiring engineers to improve healthcare data exchange (ycombinator.com)

Telli (YC F24) Is Hiring Engineers [On-Site Berlin] (hi.telli.com)

Continue (YC S23) is hiring software engineers in San Francisco (ycombinator.com)

UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring a Head of Ops to automate construction compliance (up.codes)

Enhanced Radar (YC W25) is hiring a founding engineer

Converge (YC S23) well-capitalized New York startup seeks product developers (runconverge.com)

Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring Enterprise BDRs (ycombinator.com)

MindsDB (YC W20) is hiring an AI solutions engineer (job-boards.greenhouse.io)

Recurse Center (YC S10) Is Hiring a Career Facilitator (recurse.notion.site)

Cua (YC X25) is hiring an engineer (ycombinator.com)

Noloco (YC S21) is hiring a founder's associate in Barcelona (ycombinator.com)

14.ai (YC W24) hiring founding engineers in SF to build a Zendesk alternative (14.ai)

Lago (Open-Source Usage Based Billing) is hiring for ten roles (ycombinator.com)

Spark AI (YC W24) is hiring a full-stack engineer in SF (founding team) (ycombinator.com)

Bitmovin (YC S15) Is Hiring a Junior Solutions Engineer in Denver (bitmovin.com)

SigNoz (YC W21, Open Source Datadog) Is Hiring DevRel Engineers (Remote)(US) (ycombinator.com)

AccessOwl (YC S22) is hiring an Elixir Engineer to connect 100s of SaaS (ycombinator.com)

Ask HN: How do you choose comedians to watch live?

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