Find tonight.Sleep nearby.
Live events, a real-time crowd, and a room you can walk home from — on one map.
Tonight takes three apps and a guess.
You find the show in one place, buy the ticket in another, and book a room in a third — and none of them tell you how far the room is from the door.
Find it
Event feeds and social posts. Great at “what’s on,” silent about where you’d sleep.
Buy it
Ticket sites sell the seat. The night around it — the room, the walk home — isn’t their job.
Sleep near it
Hotel sites search by city, not by venue. “Downtown” can mean a fifteen-minute cab ride.
The most valuable purchase attached to a night out is the room — and nobody shows the distance.
One map. Ticket to doorstep.
- See what’s on, where you are — or anywhere.Tonight, this weekend, or any city on any dates with Trip Mode.
- Tap a venue, see the rooms around it.Real hotels near the event, each with a walking time to the venue.
- Book through a partner link.The person who found the show never leaves the session to sort out where to stay.
Running in the beta today.
A production backend, a native app, and the pieces the app stores require — built and working, not mocked.
Live event map
Listings from ticketing APIs plus promoter-submitted events, filterable by tonight, weekend, or week.
Trip Mode
Pick a city and dates; the map shows what’s on in that window, colour-coded by day.
Hotels around the venue
Real hotels from a live places dataset, chains only, each with walk-time to the event and a booking link.
Event chat rooms
Real accounts, real-time rooms tied to events and places. Report, block, and account deletion are built in.
Promoter self-serve
Venues and promoters list events free; they appear on the map immediately.
Friend discovery
Opt-in contact matching and three levels of profile visibility — public, private, invisible.
We get paid when someone books.
Lodging
Commission when a user books a room through a partner link — the highest-value purchase attached to a night out. Hotel links resolve through Stay22’s multi-provider network, with hand-curated Expedia links taking priority where we’ve resolved them. Active Expedia Group Travel Creator Program partner account.
IntegratedTickets
Referral commission on ticket purchases. Users can already buy tickets from the map — listings and buy links come from ticketing APIs including Ticketmaster Discovery — but we don’t earn on those purchases yet. Earning starts with an affiliate agreement; we’ve been introduced to Ticketmaster Distributed Commerce, who have asked to review a live consumer app first.
Promoter boosts
Free to list, paid to stand out — featured map pins and nearby notifications for promoters and venues.
RoadmapPremium tier
Free for the first six months, then a paid plan at $1.99 a month or $20 a year. Subscribers earn back half of our ticket commission until their fee is covered — planned, and subject to partner approval.
RoadmapAudience first. Then the math works.
Our users travel to multi-day events, and one trip carries a hotel stay and a set of tickets — we earn a commission on both. Move the assumptions and see how much audience each outcome takes.
- Trips booked per year
- Hotel commission
- Ticket commission
- Subscriptions
- Rebates to subscribers (planned)
- Revenue per active user
Example inputs to explore the model — not projections or forecasts. Commission rates depend on each partner’s terms and on which booking path a hotel uses. The rebate (half of ticket commission returned to subscribers until their fee is covered) is planned and subject to partner approval; it is counted against revenue here so the model doesn’t overstate it. The app is free for the first six months, and app-store fees apply to subscriptions. Repayment time assumes the full raise is invested, a steady annual revenue at the level shown, and no early buyout; the agreement defines exactly what counts as revenue.
Built, partnered, pre-revenue.
- Full product built in-houseMobile app, API, accounts, chat, moderation tooling, promoter tools.Done
- Android beta liveInstallable from wutzpoppin.com today.Live
- Expedia Group Travel Creator ProgramAccepted partner with an active affiliate account.Accepted
- Store-readiness workReport / block, account deletion, privacy policy, terms — built to app-store requirements.Done
- Ticketmaster Distributed CommerceIntroduced; requested a live consumer app to review.In discussion
- App Store & Google PlayDeveloper accounts and submissions in preparation.Next
Win one metro before the map is big.
Launch market: . A map is only useful when it’s dense, so we go deep in one city first. No generated video — real nights, real people.
DJs & collectives
Working DJs post their gigs and bring their following with them, and a Midwest DJ collective has said it will help launch. Informal so far — the first job is turning that goodwill into installs.
Promoters & venues
Listing is free, so every promoter has a reason to point their audience to us. They bring the crowd; we bring the map.
Real footage
Short clips shot at actual events by us and by users, with permission. Genuine nights, not synthetic ones.
Scenes & campuses
Student orgs, local groups, and newsletters where people already ask “what’s on this weekend?”
City pages
“Events tonight in …” pages with real, current listings — the searches people already make.
Invite loop
Contact matching and shareable links, so one person planning a night out brings the rest of the group.
What we’ll measure first: share of new users who invite a friend, and week-one retention inside the launch metro.
Each one owns a step. None owns the night.
| Capability | Ticketing sites | Event feeds & social | Hotel sites | Wutz Poppin’ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live events on a map | ◐ | ◐ | – | ● |
| Buy tickets | ● | ◐ | – | ◐ |
| Rooms near the venue, with walk time | – | – | ◐ | ● |
| Real-time chat around an event | – | ◐ | – | ● |
| Self-serve promoter listing | ◐ | ● | – | ● |
● full ◐ partial – none. Category-level comparison based on our own assessment; ticket purchase in Wutz Poppin’ is a referral click-out, not a checkout.
Built to run lean.
Two people, with software agents doing the repetitive work — and a person on every decision that carries risk.
Handled by agents
- Support triage — sorting, first responses, routing.
- Monitoring — uptime, errors, and logs, with alerts.
- Routine fixes and deploys — small, reviewable changes.
Always a human
- Money and partner terms — anything touching revenue or agreements.
- Moderation decisions — reported content and account actions.
- User data — access, deletion, and disclosure.
- Escalations — anything the agents can’t resolve surfaces to a person on the team.
What could go wrong, and what we’ve done about it.
Partner dependence
Revenue rests on affiliate terms we don’t control. Mitigation: more than one hotel provider (Expedia Group and Stay22), multiple ticket sources, and direct promoter listings that don’t depend on either.
Cold start
A map with nothing on it is useless. Mitigation: supply is pre-populated from ticketing APIs and promoter submissions, so day-one users see real events.
User-generated content
Chat means moderation. Mitigation: sign-in required to post, report and block on every message, account deletion, and human review of reports.
Small team
Two people is a thin bench. Mitigation: agent-run operations with documented systems, and the raise goes to advertising and outside specialists rather than new hires.
A transferable revenue share: investors receive of the app’s revenue until they’ve been paid what they put in, and the founders keep all of the equity. About 80% of the raise goes to advertising and marketing; founder pay is 15% ($75K each), disclosed up front.
Use of funds
What this round gets us to
- Live in the App Store and Google Play.
- An engaged audience in the launch metro — a first target of 5,000 monthly active users.
- First commission revenue from lodging, then tickets.
- Sanctioned booking-API access from the major partners.
Paid as we grow. Done at .
There’s no fixed schedule. Investors receive of revenue as it comes in, so the stronger the app performs, the sooner the agreement is repaid and ends. Here’s what that looks like at different annual revenue levels.
Illustrations of the arithmetic, not forecasts. Assumes the full raise is invested and a steady annual revenue at each level shown.
Once an investor has received their investment, payments stop.
If the app takes off, we can retire the agreement ahead of schedule, on terms set in the agreement.
Ownership and control stay with the founders.
All or part of an interest can be transferred, subject to the agreement.
Come see it work.
The Android beta is installable today. The fastest way to understand it is to open the map on a night something’s on.
This overview is provided for discussion purposes only. It contains forward-looking statements, example figures, and illustrative assumptions that are not guarantees or forecasts of results. Descriptions of partner relationships reflect their status at the date shown and do not imply any agreement not expressly stated. This document is not an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any security.