Welcome to the Pit
If you go to a lot of shows, you already know the drill.
A friend texts a poster screenshot for an upcoming show. You add it to your phone calendar between “Dentist 2pm” and “Mom’s birthday” three months out. Three weeks later you find out two other friends are going. Someone made a group text. Someone else made a different group text. Tickets got bought separately, seats are nowhere near each other, some people forgot and ended up not being able to get tickets. Photos from the night end up scattered across different camera rolls and one Instagram story you already can’t find again on your feed.
We’ve lived all of it. That’s the main reason we built Concert Calendar.
What this thing is
Concert Calendar is a social calendar built specifically for live music fans. Not a ticketing app — there are plenty of those. Not another general-purpose venue calendar — those treat Beach House at the Brooklyn Paramount exactly the same as Tuesday standup at 9am. This is the thing that lives around the shows: the hype before, the coordination with the crew you go with, the rating after, the photos you share, the chat, the long-running record of your live music life. Organized, simple and shared all in one place.
The shape of the product:
- A calendar that knows what a concert is. Every show has a band, opener, venue, doors, and a friends or people you know going list. Add it once, and it lives on your monthly grid alongside everyone else’s.
- A feed about music, not the algorithm. See what the people you actually trust for show recs are going to, rating, and posting photos from. No engagement bait, no influencers you didn’t ask for.
- A chat room for every show. When you and friends overlap on the same concert, a thread appears automatically. Coordinate the meetup. Trade pre-drops. Post the night-of photos somewhere they’ll still be findable in five years, even if the band isn’t around anymore.
- Five-dimension ratings. Performance, sound, venue, crowd, overall. Because “it was sick” doesn’t tell you why the last show wasn’t.
- A profile that reads like a year-end list. Top bands, top venues, shows per month, first-time-seen chronology. Your concert history as something worth keeping, not something stuck in 400 calendar entries on three devices.
Things we’ll talk about
Three things, mostly. But we reserve the right to write and rant about other stuff, too.
Practical guides for live music fans. Tips we know for festivals or venues that we love and have figured out how to get the most out of. Thoughts and ideas on how to get those f*@#ers to shut the hell up behind you so you can actually listen to the music. Oh man, I hate those poeple. Seriously, why do they even go to the show? Oh wait.. ranting comes later.
Release notes when we ship. Not a dry changelog — a real explanation of what we built, why we built it, and what it lets you do that you couldn’t before. We want reading our release notes to feel like a friend telling you they finally listened to you and fixed that thing that’s been driving you frigging nuts, not a robot reading a code diff.
Honest behind-the-scenes. How we make decisions about features. What we got wrong and what we changed. The tradeoffs around privacy, ratings, who can see what. We’re a small team, and we’d rather be transparent than polished.
Who we are
We’re concert people and live music nerds just like you who got tired of the massive group texts that still have like 5 numbers I don’t know somehow and juggling different calendars - and oh yeah, getting super pissed about forgetting about shows. Especially ones we even had tickets for! Oh come on - you know you’ve done it too. We started building Concert Calendar for ourselves and our friends, then realized everyone we showed it to had the same “oh, I’ve needed this” reaction. So here we are.
If there’s something you’d like us to write about — a feature you wish we’d build, a question about how we think about something — hit us up at hello@concertcalendar.app. And if you’re not on the waitlist yet, then why the hell did you read this far anyway? I mean - thanks for reading and all, but that’s just weird.
See you at the show!
Ed (Concert Calendar founder)