The DemoStop
Where talent gets found.
A talent discovery and booking platform for live performance. Artists, venues, industry pros and fans in one searchable network.
Not a feed. A searchable stage.
Most talent platforms are social feeds where discovery is algorithm roulette. The DemoStop is a structured, searchable database instead. Every artist tags the spheres they work in (singer, musician, rapper, dancer, comedian, DJ, producer and more), plus their genres, instruments, dance styles or comedic styles. A venue searching for its next night finds exactly the right performer, not a wall of everyone.
Profiles adapt to the craft: musicians get genres, instruments and sounds-like tags, dancers get dance styles, comedians get comedic styles, and venues get category, capacity and what they book. Fans browse and watch everything free. Artists and venues pay a flat membership, with no per-upload fees and no cut of their bookings.
Talent discovery & booking platform, web and mobile
Built solo: product strategy, design, engineering and launch
Next.js 16, React 19, TypeScript, Tailwind, Supabase (Postgres, Auth, Storage, Realtime), Stripe Connect, Capacitor, Mapbox, HLS video
Live at thedemostop.app with real artists and venues
Everything orbits Discover.
Artists, venues and fans on the inner ring; revenue and reach on the outer. Fans discover an artist and subscribe. That following earns a live date. The venue fills the room and gains regulars. Every part pays the next one forward.
A searchable stage
Search the whole catalog by sphere, genre, instrument and city. Watch every demo, short and clip without an account.
Booking without the chase
Venues post auditions, gigs, contests, open mics and residencies. Artists see match scores and apply with the right demo.
Artist to artist
Collabs, pickups, openers, jams and cyphers. Post what you need, pick who fits, build something together.
Shows, tickets, the door
Go live and sell tickets to it, with wallet passes scanned at the door. Venues can build multi-day concerts.
Learn from artists who do it
Artists teach their own courses and keep the majority of every sale.
Flat and fair
Free for fans. $60 a year for artists, $250 a year for venues. No tiers to climb, no cut of bookings.
Started on mobile. Built for the big screen too.
The full experience runs on phones and desktop from one codebase: full-width discovery with side-by-side profiles, drag-and-drop demo uploads, and bookings and collabs managed in one window, synced across devices.
Get discovered in three moves.
Build your profile
Upload demos, photos and clips. Tag your spheres, genres and instruments so the right people find exactly what you do.
Get seen
Your profile turns up when venues search for their next night, when fans browse Discover, and when artists look for someone to build with.
Build your reps
Get selected for gigs, show up and deliver. Every performance adds to your track record, and a track record gets you picked again.
The network, already working.
This is the real Discover page, running live. Browse artists by sphere and play any demo, no account needed.
Built like a real company, by one person.
One codebase, three platforms
Next.js on the web, wrapped with Capacitor for iOS and Android, so every feature ships everywhere at once.
Money that moves
Stripe Connect handles memberships, paid gigs, live tickets and course sales, with payouts straight to artists.
Demos that play right
Every upload is transcoded for HD streaming, and audio versions of video demos are rendered automatically.
Your stage starts here.
Free to join. No fee to be discovered.
