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Announcements, product notes, performer + venue tips, and the engineering decisions worth writing down. From the people building ShareTheStage.
Welcome to ShareTheStage — the verified live performance marketplace.
After a year of quiet building, we are open. Here is what we made, why we made it, and the small set of promises that hold the platform together.
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- Trust & safety
Why we verify every account — and what verification actually means here.
Verification is the most under-explained word in the industry. Here is exactly what we check, what we do not, and why we will never put a green checkmark behind a $10 fee.
Nick CravenMay 5, 20266 min read - Performers
5 things to put in your performer profile that actually book more gigs.
Profiles that book are not the longest ones. They are the ones that answer a venue’s five questions before the venue has to ask. Here’s the short list.
Marisol QuartetApr 28, 20265 min read - Performers
Booking outside your city: what venues actually want to see.
Cold-pitching a venue 1,200 miles away with the same email you sent to your hometown bar is why most tours stall. A short field guide for the email you send instead.
Theron JamesApr 20, 20267 min read - Engineering
How we built the booking calendar (and why “simple” took six months).
A two-way Google / Apple / Outlook sync sounds boring on paper. Doing it correctly — without leaking other peoples’ events into a public profile — is the most under-rated engineering problem in this product.
Nick CravenApr 10, 20268 min read
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