on the hills

On the Hills began with a supply problem disguised as a search problem. A gig in Bir, a market in Dharamshala and a workshop in Dharamkot all exist, and all of them are hard to find when every organiser announces somewhere different. Ankur made the town the organising unit and put those listings into one feed, scoped to hill towns and deliberately never the metros.

It is more than a public feed. Visitors search, move between towns, scan dated cards and open an event page with venue, schedule and an RSVP; hosts can submit a listing and claim an event that is already up; and everything passes through an admin review queue before it publishes. Curation is the product decision — the feed is edited, not open-posted.

That decision is also the constraint. A reviewed feed is only as current as the person working the queue, and the launch coverage is one corridor in Himachal rather than the whole Himalaya the name suggests. The site runs on its own domain with no separate fallback deployment, so an outage there is an outage everywhere.