Offstage

Finally, after roughly 2 months of work, we are launching an MVP of our site Offstage! Offstage is a collection of tools that work together to help artists to get to know and engage with their fans better, rather than a singular feature. We started with a "Think big" session where we outlined all potential ideas and spiked some of them to estimate the build time and overall feasibility. We know there are great point solutions (e.g., smart links, CRMs, Ticketing). Still, only a few tools efficiently combine all of these. From the "Think big" session, it was clear it wouldn't be possible to build an MVP for each of the ideas, so we had to cut down and focus on a minimal subset of features to be able to deliver something on a tight deadline. We wanted to focus on something that brings just a bit of functionality for the artists in isolation without the other features being built. We landed on building the Artist Page (no, we do not want to create another Linktree :-)) - a personalized page with links and a subscription option for fans, and the Fan Hub - a hub where artists can see which fans have signed up (light CRM). We are finally in the position where we can make the MVP public and are very excited to start collecting feedback from outside of our friendship groups. We are also stoked to begin fleshing out the other features, and hopefully, we will be rolling them out too. We would love to hear your feedback and the viability of such a platform. We are gathering feedback from people in the music industry to understand their pain points to build the right things.