4PM Detroit:a happy hour guide checked against every bar’s own menu.
4PM Detroit is a guide to happy hours across Detroit and its suburbs. Every listing is checked against the bar’s own menu, with real times and real deals instead of “half off drinks.” The site is statically generated, so hundreds of listings load instantly, and a live filter shows what is happening right now in Detroit time.
- Business
- Happy hour guide · Detroit
- Status
- Live, and I still maintain it
- Website
- 4pmdetroit.com
What 4PM Detroit needed
Happy hour information online is usually stale, vague, or buried in a bar’s Instagram. A guide is only worth opening if it is accurate, and fast on a phone at five minutes to four on a Friday.
What I built for 4PM Detroit
- 01
Every listing verified
Each bar is a structured record with a validated schema: days, times, deals and the source it was checked against. A listing that fails validation does not publish.
- 02
Happening now
A time filter shows which happy hours are running at this moment in Detroit time, and which start soon.
- 03
Neighborhoods and a map
Browse by neighborhood or on a map. The map loads only when someone opens it, using free open map tiles, so the page stays light.
- 04
Built to be quoted
Every bar and neighborhood has its own static page with structured data and an FAQ, so search engines and AI assistants can read and cite it directly.
- 05
Nothing to babysit
Static pages on GitHub Pages: no database, no server to keep alive, nothing to patch.
Built with
- Astro
- TypeScript
- MapLibre
- GitHub Pages
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