Scene Louis Show Calendar
Volunteering, Responsive Design, CMS
Team & Role
Jared, who runs the Scene Louis Show Calendar on Instagram and Twitter, was looking for a low-cost web solution to promote many different shows, from stadium shows to basement shows, happening in and around the Greater St. Louis area. Previously, he was only posting infographics with a long list of shows happening each week, but there wasn’t an easy way for showgoers to extract that information from the infographics. I messaged him and offered to volunteer my web and design skills to create a template and web solution for his calendar.
Life of a showgoer
Showgoers face challenges in keeping track of all the awesome shows happening in the St. Louis area. There wasn’t a one-stop solution at the time. There are venue websites, social media posts, Facebook event postings, and even mobile apps that try to tackle this issue. The problem with mobile apps like Songkick and Bandsintown is that smaller artists sometimes get left out entirely. Typically, these apps put more emphasis on popular artists and operate at a large scale, from city to city. St. Louis needed something more personalized for its unique music scene.
Linktree + Notion
One of the great things about a platform like Notion is how easy it is to publish a page to the web. It’s free as long as you don’t feel the need to connect a domain name. Same with Linktree.
Social media users are accustomed to clicking a link in the bio of an Instagram or Twitter page.
The Scene Louis social media pages contained a link to a Linktree. From the Linktree they can easily get to the Notion Page by selecting Upcoming Show Calendar
Building the Calendar
Visitors of the Scene Louis Upcoming Show Calendar are able to:
- Search for artists
- Filter by date, venue and genre
- Switch between a list view, calendar view, and see shows by genre side by side
- Click on the shows to find out more, including
- Links to venue websites to purchase advanced tickets
- Links to social media posts for shows without advanced ticketing
- The full lineup of the show
Impact
To be clear, I focused entirely on building the Notion page and allowed Jared to duplicate my work and manage the calendar as he sees fit. This project would be nothing without Jared’s continuous effort to scrape the internet and compile all the shows into the Notion page.
Since this is a volunteer effort, every bit of effort counts, and while it is difficult to measure analytics on a free Notion account, the page costs $0 USD to maintain and is undeniably helping drive sales for venues that sell advanced tickets.
It also shines a spotlight on DIY-organized shows that are inevitably going to get passed over by apps like Songkick and Bandsintown, since the information for smaller shows isn’t API-ready.
See it for yourself
Please keep in mind that some of the names of these artists aren’t alway safe for work
Interact with the Calendar
Scene Louis Show Calendar
Volunteering, Responsive Design, CMS
Team & Role
Jared, who runs the Scene Louis Show Calendar on Instagram and Twitter, was looking for a low-cost web solution to promote many different shows, from stadium shows to basement shows, happening in and around the Greater St. Louis area. Previously, he was only posting infographics with a long list of shows happening each week, but there wasn’t an easy way for showgoers to extract that information from the infographics. I messaged him and offered to volunteer my web and design skills to create a template and web solution for his calendar.
Life of a showgoer
Showgoers face challenges in keeping track of all the awesome shows happening in the St. Louis area. There wasn’t a one-stop solution at the time. There are venue websites, social media posts, Facebook event postings, and even mobile apps that try to tackle this issue. The problem with mobile apps like Songkick and Bandsintown is that smaller artists sometimes get left out entirely. Typically, these apps put more emphasis on popular artists and operate at a large scale, from city to city. St. Louis needed something more personalized for its unique music scene.
Linktree + Notion
One of the great things about a platform like Notion is how easy it is to publish a page to the web. It’s free as long as you don’t feel the need to connect a domain name. Same with Linktree.
Social media users are accustomed to clicking a link in the bio of an Instagram or Twitter page.
The Scene Louis social media pages included a Linktree link. From the Linktree, they can easily get to the Notion Page by selecting Upcoming Show Calendar
Building the Calendar
Visitors of the Scene Louis Upcoming Show Calendar are able to:
- Search for artists
- Filter by date, venue and genre
- Switch between a list view, calendar view, and see shows by genre side by side
- Click on the shows to find out more, including
- Links to venue websites to purchase advanced tickets
- Links to social media posts for shows without advanced ticketing
- The full lineup of the show
Impact
To be clear, I focused entirely on building the Notion page and allowed Jared to duplicate my work and manage the calendar as he sees fit. This project would be nothing without Jared’s continuous effort to scrape the internet and compile all the shows into the Notion page.
Since this is a volunteer effort, every bit of effort counts, and while it is difficult to measure analytics on a free Notion account, the page costs $0 USD to maintain and is undeniably helping drive sales for venues that sell advanced tickets.
It also shines a spotlight on DIY-organized shows that are inevitably going to get passed over by apps like Songkick and Bandsintown, since the information for smaller shows isn’t API-ready.
See it for yourself
Please keep in mind that some of the names of these artists aren’t alway safe for work
Interact with the Calendar
Scene Louis Show Calendar
Volunteering, Responsive Design, CMS
Team & Role
Jared, who runs the Scene Louis Show Calendar on Instagram and Twitter, was looking for a low-cost web solution to promote many different shows, from stadium shows to basement shows, happening in and around the Greater St. Louis area. Previously, he was only posting infographics with a long list of shows happening each week, but there wasn’t an easy way for showgoers to extract that information from the infographics. I messaged him and offered to volunteer my web and design skills to create a template and web solution for his calendar.
Life of a showgoer
Showgoers face challenges in keeping track of all the awesome shows happening in the St. Louis area. There wasn’t a one-stop solution at the time. There are venue websites, social media posts, Facebook event postings, and even mobile apps that try to tackle this issue. The problem with mobile apps like Songkick and Bandsintown is that smaller artists sometimes get left out entirely. Typically, these apps put more emphasis on popular artists and operate at a large scale, from city to city. St. Louis needed something more personalized for its unique music scene.
Linktree + Notion
One of the great things about a platform like Notion is how easy it is to publish a page to the web. It’s free as long as you don’t feel the need to connect a domain name. Same with Linktree.
Social media users are accustomed to clicking a link in the bio of an Instagram or Twitter page.
The Scene Louis social media pages included a Linktree link. From the Linktree, they can easily get to the Notion Page by selecting Upcoming Show Calendar
Building the Calendar
Visitors of the Scene Louis Upcoming Show Calendar are able to:
- Search for artists
- Filter by date, venue and genre
- Switch between a list view, calendar view, and see shows by genre side by side
- Click on the shows to find out more, including
- Links to venue websites to purchase advanced tickets
- Links to social media posts for shows without advanced ticketing
- The full lineup of the show
Impact
To be clear, I focused entirely on building the Notion page and allowed Jared to duplicate my work and manage the calendar as he sees fit. This project would be nothing without Jared’s continuous effort to scrape the internet and compile all the shows into the Notion page.
Since this is a volunteer effort, every bit of effort counts, and while it is difficult to measure analytics on a free Notion account, the page costs $0 USD to maintain and is undeniably helping drive sales for venues that sell advanced tickets.
It also shines a spotlight on DIY-organized shows that are inevitably going to get passed over by apps like Songkick and Bandsintown, since the information for smaller shows isn’t API-ready.
See it for yourself
Please keep in mind that some of the names of these artists aren’t alway safe for work
Interact with the Calendar