u/Jazzlike-Buy-1077

For people who go out for karaoke around San Diego, where do you normally figure out what’s happening tonight and where?

Google? Instagram? Facebook groups? Following individual KJs? Venue pages? Word of mouth?

I’ve gotten pretty deep into the local karaoke scene over the last few years, and it still feels surprisingly fragmented. A venue might have the right night on Instagram, an old time on Google, nothing on its website, and the KJ is the only person who actually knows what’s happening. 🤷🏽‍♂️

I’m especially curious about a few things:

Where do you look first?

Is there any source you actually trust to be current?

Do you mostly follow specific venues or specific KJs?

What information do you wish was easier to find before deciding where to go?

And what’s your favorite karaoke night in San Diego?

I’m working on something in this space, so I’m genuinely interested in how people are solving this problem now rather than assuming everyone searches the same way I do.

Bonus points if you can send me down a rabbit hole to a karaoke night I somehow haven’t found yet. 🎤

Karaoke has brought me a stupid amount of joy over the last 5 or 6 years.

Yeah, I love getting up and singing. But what really got me was the community around it.

You start recognizing the same singers. You know which KJs run which nights. You end up in bars you never would've walked into otherwise. Somebody you’ve never met gets up and absolutely crushes a song, or absolutely does NOT crush it, and the whole room is still behind them.

There are a TON of places to sing around San Diego.

The problem was figuring out where the hell they all were.

I kept thinking somebody should build a better way to find all of it.

Then I waited for that person to do it.

And waited.

Eventually I figured out that apparently the person was me. 🤷🏽‍♂️

So I started with my own list of karaoke spots. Then I kept finding more. Then KJs, singers, venue owners and other people in the San Diego karaoke community started helping me correct things, add nights, find places I missed and tell me what would actually be useful.

That became SingHUB.

I built the first version, kept working on it around what people told me they actually wanted, and I just wrapped up a pretty major V2 rebuild.

Now you can find karaoke by night, neighborhood and venue, see who’s hosting, check out the places themselves, and spend a lot less time digging through six-month-old Instagram flyers trying to figure out if karaoke is actually happening tonight.

But I also wanted it to be more than just a directory.

You can start building your own karaoke history, save your performances, earn stars and unlock achievements as you get out and sing.

And you definitely don't have to be the person holding the mic to use it.

If you're the friend who loves going to karaoke, the person looking for a fun night out, somebody following their favorite KJ, or the one cheering way too loudly from the table, I want SingHUB to be useful for you too.

SingHUB.app

San Diego karaoke people, this is for us first.

I’d eventually love to take what works here and build it city by city, but San Diego is home base. I want this version to be genuinely useful before worrying about taking over the karaoke world. 🎤🌎

So if you’re part of the karaoke scene:

Check it out and tell me what I got wrong. Tell me what I’m missing. Tell me what would make it more useful.

And especially tell me your favorite karaoke spot or KJ. I want to see if you can find one I don’t already have.

If this ends up helping a few people in here find a new place to sing, a new favorite KJ, or some new karaoke friends along the way, even better.

I worked my ass off on this thing and I’m pretty damn excited to finally put the new version in front of the people I built it for.

🎤 SingHUB.app