Tyler Gray
Scene Louis Show Calender
Volunteering, Responsive Design, CMS
Team & Role
Jared, who runs the Scene Louis Show Calendar on Instagram and Twitter was looking for a low cost, easy to maintain, web solution for his calendar 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 a way to easily extract that information from the infographic for showgoers. 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 for 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 of the apps entirely. Typically these apps put more of an emphasis on more popular artists and are operating at a large scale, from city to city. St. Louis needed something more personalized to their 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 of scraping through the internet to compile all of 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 the spotlight on DIY booked 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
Interact with the Calendar
Please keep in mind that some of the names of these artists aren’t alway safe for work
Tyler Gray
Scene Louis Show Calender
Volunteering, Responsive Design, CMS
Team & Role
Jared, who runs the Scene Louis Show Calendar on Instagram and Twitter was looking for a low cost, easy to maintain, web solution for his calendar 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 a way to easily extract that information from the infographic for showgoers. 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 for 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 of the apps entirely. Typically these apps put more of an emphasis on more popular artists and are operating at a large scale, from city to city. St. Louis needed something more personalized to their 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 of scraping through the internet to compile all of 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 the spotlight on DIY booked 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
Tyler Gray
Scene Louis Show Calender
Volunteering, Responsive Design, CMS
Team & Role
Jared, who runs the Scene Louis Show Calendar on Instagram and Twitter was looking for a low cost, easy to maintain, web solution for his calendar 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 a way to easily extract that information from the infographic for showgoers. 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 for 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 of the apps entirely. Typically these apps put more of an emphasis on more popular artists and are operating at a large scale, from city to city. St. Louis needed something more personalized to their 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 of scraping through the internet to compile all of 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 the spotlight on DIY booked 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