My Events.

The problem

There is no longer a single source for entertainment events. Information arrives across mailing lists, Eventbrite, "things to do this weekend" articles, and Facebook groups — each publishing its own slice — so staying aware of what's coming up is hard, and it's easy to miss ticket windows or overlook smaller local events.

Event details arrive by email in inconsistent, unstructured formats with no automatic way to capture them. Saving everything with full details is time-consuming, so users usually don't, and later have to revisit the source. Even when events are saved, without a calendar view it's hard to see the full landscape or notice that two events coincide.

The solution

My Events scans a Gmail inbox, finds likely event-related emails, extracts structured event details, and places them onto a calendar. It solves a problem earlier in the journey than Gmail's built-in calendar capture, which handles meeting invites and reservation confirmations — cases where the user has already found the event. My Events is about becoming aware of the event in the first place.

The product automatically captures upcoming events, standardizes key details, and lets the user view everything in a calendar so overlapping events and conflicts become visible. Users review events in calendar or card view, then export them to Google Calendar or print them.

How it works

The MVP uses a three-stage pipeline. First, a Gmail search query (via read-only OAuth) pulls candidate emails. Second, an AI pre-scan classifies sender and subject lines to identify which likely contain events. Third, on-demand extraction reads the email body to pull structured event details, including multiple events from a single email.

The app uses Claude Haiku 4.5 through the Anthropic SDK, chosen because email scanning is classification and extraction rather than complex reasoning — purpose-fit and roughly a third the cost of Sonnet, at under $1/month per user. On a 100-email test set the pre-filter reached 97.5% accuracy; extraction is accurate for emails with 1–5 events but degrades with larger numbers. Deduplication rules handle the same event described by different senders — matching on venue, date, and overlapping keywords.

Who it's for

My Events is for consumers who want to discover and track upcoming events, enabling both advance planning and spontaneous outings. The most likely users are young adults, who tend to go out more, and single or married women, who are typically the household planners.

The MVP deliberately limits itself to a single email provider — Gmail — on the assumption that, given the prevalence of email marketing and mailing lists, a user's promotional email folder is a primary event source.

Why it matters

The global event discovery platforms market was valued at $6.8 billion in 2025 and is expected to reach $17.4 billion by 2034 at an 11.0% CAGR, with the hyperlocal segment growing even faster at 15.8%. Tailwinds include source fragmentation and "event searching overwhelm," AI enabling personalization at scale, a post-pandemic resurgence in live events, and email remaining a primary promotion channel.

Built as a personal capstone project, My Events plans to validate with 5–10 beta users — extracting test sets from their email while they trial the UI — before asking them to use it weekly for four to six weeks. Planned enhancements include learning user preferences, sourcing beyond Gmail, and alerting on ticket windows.

At a glance

Project

My Events

Built by

Elisabeth DeVos

One-liner

My Events is an app that scans a Gmail inbox, finds likely event-related emails, extracts structured event details, and places those events onto a calendar.