Fair Vendor Radar
A discovery app for small food and craft vendors touring the summer fair circuit, giving regulars a heads-up on who is showing up at KDays this year versus last, and what is new.
Fair-going adults who chase specific vendors year after year
- Vendor profiles with menu, last-seen fair, and opening dates
- "New this year" tag and push alerts for favorite vendors
- User reviews tied to specific fairs, so reviews follow the vendor
KDays opens July 18 in Edmonton, and local press routinely features the new vendor lineup — there is an existing audience of repeat fair-goers tracking this every summer.
KDays gets seasonal press coverage (Curiocity 2025 guide, Explore Edmonton 'weird and wacky foods' release) and r/Edmonton threads, but Google Trends shows only 500+ searches for 'kdays edmonton' and engagement is concentrated in a 10-day window.Here's your complete 2025 guide to KDays in Edmonton ↗KDays on Reddit r/Edmonton ↗
Direct precedent exists: Calgary Stampede Food Map by Pixeltree is exactly this concept (free, ad-free, no tracking fan map) for Calgary's larger fair, and KDays itself already publishes a vendor directory on its official site.Calgary Stampede Food Map 2026 | New Midway Foods + Directions ↗Locally-designed Stampede food app makes it easier to find the new eats ↗KDays • Vendor Listing ↗
The proven Calgary equivalent is explicitly free, ad-free, and no-tracking — setting a $0 ceiling and crowding out subscription willingness for an Edmonton-only version with a smaller fair (~70 food vendors vs Stampede scale).Calgary Stampede Food Map 2026 | New Midway Foods + Directions ↗
KDays runs only 10 days/year (July 17-26, 2026) in one city, and the main buyer behaviors (press releases, fan listicles) drop to near zero the other 355 days — hard to extend into a year-round product.KDays • The best days are KDays. July 17-26 ↗
Technically straightforward: KDays publishes a public vendor directory and annual press releases; building a year-over-year comparison requires only scraping and vendor-name matching at small scale.KDays • Vendor Listing ↗