Building a music dating site

Hi,

long story short, I'm a musician looking for other musicians to jam in the neighbourhood. Turns out there is no app/website of that sort covering this area, which is a surprise given the number of dating apps we have now.

I would like to build a music "dating" site to connect people like me. There are a few features I need :

  • Mandatory profile extra fields (if people don't fill them, then the whole thing has no point) :
  • Instrument(s) played/owned and level of practice,
  • Style(s) played
  • Can read/transcribe/arrange/compose music sheets ?
  • Has a place to play ?
  • URL to Bandcamp, Soundcloud, Youtube, TikTok and any other place where musicians can drop their own tunes,
  • Searchable location, ideally ± some radius from origin location,
  • Ability to create and join "bands",
  • Ability to advertise music events.

I have installed UNA and played around options a bit, but it seems that :

  1. I can't add extra profile fields, let alone search them,
  2. the location-based search is well hidden in a page,
  3. I can't seem to hack the "organization" app into a "band" one.

Do you have any pointers to help me here or did I mistunderstood the purpose or UNA ? Thanks !

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    • Hello @Aurélio Aquino Hermes Lopes !

      Thank you for expressing your interest in our software. We appreciate your inquiry and would like to address the questions you have raised.

      The information regarding your inquiry can be found in the following resources:  https://una.io/wiki/Forms-Builder , https://una.io/wiki/Search-Forms, and https://una.io/wiki/Dev-Forms .

      Have you configured the location settings in the designated Studio->Settings area?

      The most convenient approach to renaming all instances of "Orgs" and "Organisations" to "Bands" is through the Studio->Polyglot section.

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        Thanks @LeonidS !

        I managed to make all that work. Once you understand the logic of the content, it's indeed quite rational and no-nonsense. Being a dev myself, I can guess the architecture of the object-oriented backend used to make it happen.

        However, the GUI is not helping and even misleading. Navigating the parents and children attached to each display/form/etc. is cumbersome and needs several tries to get it right even with the doc. This is definitely a place where I would prefer to directly interact with PHP snippets (and read a flat list of commands/declarations) rather than a multi-tray, nested list of widgets that you have to chase through several pages.

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