{"slug": "show-hn-conference-expo-trade-show-finder-plus-mcp", "title": "Show HN: Conference / expo / trade show finder plus MCP", "summary": "A founder launched a Show HN project on Hacker News: a conference, expo and trade show finder paired with an MCP server, built after finding that Claude and ChatGPT search returned out-of-date events, misleading prices (one event listed as free was $2,795 for non-buyers) and only the largest shows. The founder said they spent a week's worth of tokens validating event dates, finding prices, filtering junk events and de-duplicating data, aiming to help other founders selling at industry events. The post had 2 points and 0 comments at the time of submission.", "body_md": "As a founder looking for industry events to network/sell at, Claude/ChatGPT search for conferences is extremely hit or miss. IME the agent never goes deep enough and frequently includes out of date events, misleading prices (claiming an event is free, but it's only free for buyers and $2795 for everyone else), or only the most major events. Also never sure if I'm missing something cheaper or closer or a better fit.\n\nSpent a whole week's worth of tokens on industry event research validating event dates, finding prices, filtering junk events, de-duping, and generally cleaning up the data. May it be useful to other founders trying to sell.\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50215547](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50215547)\n\nPoints: 2\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-conference-expo-trade-show-finder-plus-mcp", "canonical_source": "https://www.conferencefindr.com", "published_at": "2026-10-23 21:22:57+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-23 21:43:07.929307+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "agent-protocols", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Hacker News", "Claude", "ChatGPT", "MCP"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-conference-expo-trade-show-finder-plus-mcp", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-conference-expo-trade-show-finder-plus-mcp.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-conference-expo-trade-show-finder-plus-mcp.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-conference-expo-trade-show-finder-plus-mcp.jsonld"}}