Roadmap

The show is two sets and an encore. The third set is everything after — the lot, the ride home, the argument about the Scarlet → Fire. All of this is live.

1. I was there / I know this one / Going

   One button on every show. Your history, your stats, who else will be in the room — with a privacy default that treats a future show as the location disclosure it is.

   Shipped

2. On this date + the liturgical calendar

   Days Between, release weeks, band anniversaries, scheduled listening parties with a named host and a shared press-play moment. The site keeps the clock; the archive keeps the sound.

   Shipped

3. Ride board · run planner · crash space

   Event-scoped, apply-and-choose, trust chips from shared show history. Coordination on-site, money off-site.

   Shipped

4. Crews

   Persistent groups — regional, affinity, camp — with stewards, elevation instead of deletion, and a public mod log. Free forever; your posts reach every member.

   Shipped

5. Show-day meetups + missed connections

   Every meetup ends at a physical beacon. Every missed connection is scoped to the show you were both at.

   Shipped

6. The Lot

   Vendor stalls and classifieds — pins, posters, glass — with database bones and no register. Deals close in the lot or by the mail.

   Shipped

7. Flyers

   The telephone pole: drum circles, food trucks, kickdowns. Near you by default. Never geocoded.

   Shipped

8. Residencies + festivals

   Dead night every Tuesday at the Orange Lantern. The scene's real recurring unit, finally on a page.

   Shipped

9. Studios

   One hub for every hat you wear — vendor studio, steward suite, band workspace, the desk.

   Shipped

10. Bands post their own setlists

    The archive of record for the bands setlist.fm can't hold. Claim your page, post last night's sheet, it's in the permanent record.

    Shipped

Finding what is on within driving distance, and giving the bands the tools to put it there. Measured from the metro on your profile — the site never asks your device where it is.

1. Near you

   Shows, weekly Dead nights and flyers in the next week, by distance you choose. One page, three sources, chronological — nothing is ranked at you.

   Shipped

2. Follow bands and venues

   A subscription with a radius: tell me about this band when they play within a hundred miles. Follower counts are public; follower lists do not exist.

   Shipped

3. Bands post their own dates

   Date, room, town — then doors, price, ticket link, support if you want them. Holds stay private until you announce, or until the moment you scheduled.

   Shipped

4. The press kit

   A page a booker can print: lineup, bio, press, and the thing no other EPK has — a verifiable show history with setlists.

   Shipped

5. Announce to followers

   One notification per show, only to people whose own radius reaches the room. No reminders, no last chance, no paid boost. Reach is reported back by metro.

   Shipped

6. Calendar feed

   Every band has an .ics a fan can subscribe to and a band can paste into their own website.

   Shipped

7. Embeddable dates widget

   The same dates on the band’s own site, in their own colours.

   Planned

A social platform needs more than a menu. The shell, the cards, the color, the motion — the whole surface gets a rework, without losing the broadside.

1. A modern shell: sidebar navigation, panels, ⌘K

   Twenty destinations do not belong in a top menu. A collapsing left rail, contextual sub-navigation per section, slide-out notifications and search, and a mobile tab bar.

   Shipped

2. Card and feed system

   One card language for posts, rides, flyers, events, and listings, so a mixed feed reads as one paper rather than five apps.

   Shipped

3. Motion

   Restrained and physical: 150–300ms, spring-eased, compositor-only. Optimistic feedback on every tap. Honors reduced-motion.

   Shipped

4. The show page as an object, not a stack

   Setlist · Who · Getting there · The lot · The wall — tabs, not ten sections in a column.

   Shipped

5. Weekly broadside digest

   One typeset email a week: your crews, your calendar, your on-this-date. Instant only for the personal.

   — Waits on the transactional email provider.

   Planned

6. Prediction leagues + best-version canon

   Picks close at showtime and score against the imported setlist. The best DSO Dark Star, argued in 280 characters a vote.

   Planned

7. Structured source notes

   SBD · AUD · MTX, taper, transfer, the one line of why. Discogs for jam tapes — the moat nobody else renders.

   Planned

Overloaded towers, zero bars, a phone at 9%. The web app is progressive: what it can do offline, it will.

1. Show packs

   One tap before doors: the setlist interface, your crew, your meetup beacon, the sober table, the lot map — cached to the phone before the signal goes.

   Planned

2. Offline service worker

   Stale-while-revalidate for everything you have opened; the site works on the walk in and the walk out.

   — SPEC.md committed to this from day one; the shell rework is the moment to land it.

   Planned

3. Battery-saver text mode

   One toggle: no graphics, dark paper, pure text. The broadside was always this close to it.

   Planned

4. Tailgate pin

   Drop a pin on your car. Stored on your phone only — never sent to us — so you can find it in the dark.

   Planned

5. Crowdsourced line waits

   Bathroom, beer, merch: tap to report. Counts only, expiring fast.

   Exploring

6. Lost & found board

   Per-show, per-venue: keys, phones, sunglasses. Auto-expires like everything here.

   Exploring

7. Peer alert

   Signal nearby members that someone needs help.

   — A peer alert is not a substitute for venue medical or emergency services and will never be presented as one. Venue integration is not on the table.

   Exploring

Some things a browser cannot do — radios, wrists, the pocket. Native apps are on the way. Not next month. Soonish.

1. Find my crew (BLE compass)

   Bluetooth Low Energy pointing toward friends when the towers are down.

   — Web Bluetooth cannot advertise or mesh; this needs native.

   Native app

2. Mesh text chat

   Short messages hopping device to device across the lot.

   Native app

3. Offline ticket handshake

   Hand a ticket to someone in the lot and verify it without a network.

   — Depends on ticketing partners exposing offline-verifiable tokens; we will not build a marketplace around it.

   Native app

4. Watch complications

   What is playing, how much battery, which way to your crew — on the wrist.

   Native app

5. Push

   Meetup reminders, RSVP replies, a crew bulletin. Quiet by default.

   Native app

No star ratings, no leaderboards, no credentials to buy. Trust here is earned at shows.

1. Verified check-in stubs

   A stub on your history that says you were in the room — attendance evidence tiers, not tokens.

   — Attendance already carries none / ticket / check-in evidence. No blockchain; the archive is the ledger.

   Planned

2. Trust references

   Double-blind post-stay references for crash space; shared show counts on every ride. Written words, never a score.

   Shipped

3. Couch tour check-ins

   Streaming from home is a status. Your own thread, your own room, next to the people who are there.

   Shipped

4. Vendor directory + references

   The Lot already lists the stalls; references land next, in the same written-not-starred style.

   Building

5. Flair from verifiable data

   "Attended the Baker's Dozen." "100+ shows." Titles the archive can prove, chosen by you, never a leaderboard.

   Planned

6. Tour-leg crews

   Run cohorts unlock for a band + date window and evaporate after — the group leaves like the lot does.

   Shipped

People have asked for these. Each is a real want. Each has a reason it is not coming, printed here because a clear no beats a quiet never.

Escrow ticket trading / any payments

The Miracle Board is deliberately non-commercial; CashorTrade already does face-value escrow, now Ticketmaster-integrated. We coordinate; we never hold money.

Star ratings and public reputation scores

Self-reported attendance is unverifiable and gets gamed inside a week. Trust here is written references and shared history, never a number.

Tape bounties (pooling money for recordings)

Payments plus rights on a site whose Grateful Dead corpus is contractually non-commercial. Deep links only, forever.

Photo uploads

The single largest legal and moderation surface on any site, cut on purpose. The mark is generated; the lot is described in words.

DMs

Coordination happens where it is useful to everyone — the ride board, the meetup thread, the crew. Text-only, trust-gated DMs may return with a written risk assessment; not before.

You do not need an account. A person reads every one. If it changes the roadmap, it shows up on this page.