[iantimothy]

hello from Singapore! I've been performing standup comedy for about six years as a hobby. Anyway, last year I went to London and Berlin and I found sites like https://www.opencomedy.com/ and https://comedyinenglish.de/ super useful in finding open mic gigs to perform at. I know in the post venue owners and bookers were mentioned but wanted to highlight that for comics who travel, sites like yours are super useful to us too albeit we aren't the ones really making the money.

[mtlynch]

Thanks for reading and for sharing that! I didn't know about those resources, but they're helpful for ideas about directions to take the site.

OpenComedy has a funny bug where it seems to think I live in Northampton, UK because I like near Northampton, MA, USA: https://imgur.com/BVEZWbA

One of the recurring ideas that comes up a lot in my discussions with bookers and comedians is that bookers have a hard time finding good comedians to fill their shows and comedians have a hard time finding out which shows need comedians and what the details are. I've thought about some sort of matchmaking functionality, but as you said, it's hard to make money from something like that. I'd still like to tackle that, but I feel like I should get the money part figured out first.

[rwmurrayVT]

Holy fuck, the opencomedy website took over 12 seconds for me to load.

[war1025]

Loaded basically instantly for me.

Facebook, on the other hand, often takes nearly a minute for the UI to be fully rendered.