Venue management for a club that runs on people.
A two-sided engine for a stand-up venue — it captures a comic's interest to perform, lets the admin curate each night's lineup, and streamlines comic-to-venue comms over WhatsApp.
The elegant answer was to stop forcing comics into an app for everything — capture the structured stuff in the product, but let the talking happen where it already does: WhatsApp.
Comic-to-venue comms, automated.
Comics live on WhatsApp, so that's where the venue reaches them — availability nudges, 48-hour confirmations, day-of check-ins, and late-backout escalations. Routine updates stay in-app; the admin only gets a WhatsApp for exceptions. A hundred manual messages become one reliable flow.
Where to be strict, where to stay loose.
Board stays editable post-confirm
Real programming changes up to showtime, so reordering works even after confirmations — with a "notified" signal on top.
WhatsApp for comics, in-app for routine
Comics read WhatsApp; flooding the admin trains them to ignore it, so admins only get exceptions.
Attendance triggers payout
Tying money to one unambiguous action — did they perform? — gives every payout a clean audit trail.
A whiteboard process, turned into software.
+ admin show curation
modelled end-to-end
automated comic ↔ venue