Gigtimes, a new app that will deliver live stage times to attendees at music festivals, has launched a crowdfunding campaign to make the project a reality.
The app has been roadtested at Dot to Dot Festival in Bristol, Nottingham & Manchester with a total attendance of over 10,000, and the company is now seeking investment to build a final version of the app. By hitting the £10,000 target, Gigtimes’ seamless technology will transform the festival experience for attendees and organisers alike by 2019 in the UK, with international expansion the target in subsequent years.
Once Gigtimes users have bought a ticket for one of the festivals available on the app, they will receive a push notification when the stage times for that event are released. During the festival they will then receive further push notifications whenever there are late changes to the set times – making it much easier to hear important updates from organisers at smaller festivals.
Furthermore, anti-touting measures will be put in place to ensure tickets purchased through the app cannot be sold on for vastly inflated prices. The company will also retain a commitment to charging lower booking fees than its main competitors, working hard to reduce costs and ensuring the general public do not continue to pay extortionate and unnecessary fees on festival tickets.
If the crowdfunder is successful the company believes this would only be the beginning, with several exciting new developments in the pipeline that would turn Gigtimes into the ultimate music festival app. There are plans to include an ethical fan-to-fan ticket reselling service, a festival ‘buddy finder’ feature whereby ticketholders going alone can meet up with others in the same position as well as additional festival information such as artist profiles, personalised schedules for each event and festival site maps.
With both the festival ticket and stage times for the event stored safely within the app, and offline access for both, Gigtimes is an all-in-one solution to a common concern for festival fans. From an organiser’s perspective, the app will present them with a chance to securely sell festival tickets and easily communicate important news with festival attendees through a single free-to-use application.
The crowdfunding campaign presents a real opportunity to support an exciting project built by fellow music festival fans and created with them in mind. Contributors to the crowdfunder will also have a wide range of rewards on offer such as 12” vinyl records, vintage music t-shirts and the chance to have your contribution immortalised within the app.
Nick Harland, the founder of Gigtimes, added: “Having attended festivals all over the world, including the likes of Glastonbury, Primavera Sound and SXSW, I’ve often grown frustrated with a lack of access to key festival information, as well as sharing the concerns of so many other music festival fans when it comes to the problem of ticket touting. I feel Gigtimes can go some way to solving that problem, but it can only happen with the support of my fellow music fans”
