Testers needed for Ravebase.net
TL;DR: I’m building Ravebase, a genre-agnostic event discovery platform aimed at making it easier for people to discover electronic music events and for organizers to reach new audiences beyond Facebook.
Events will be free to publish, with optional paid social media campaigns (initially TikTok + Meta) managed through Ravebase. Organizers can also create password-protected events for private sharing.
I’m looking for party-goers and event organizers to test the platform and give me honest feedback before I build further.
Hey everyone!
I’ve been working on Ravebase, a platform for discovering electronic music events, and I’m looking for people who are willing to test it and give me some honest feedback.
You can check it out here:
I’ve been thinking about this idea for quite a while, and while there are already platforms like Goabase, I’m trying to solve a slightly different problem.
Goabase, for example, has built a strong community around its platform, with things like forums, user posts, shoutboxes etc., and has a strong focus on psytrance.
Ravebase is intended to be more genre-agnostic and focused primarily on event discovery.
The problem I’m trying to solve is something I’ve noticed in the scene where I live. From what I can tell, Facebook Events is still one of the main ways organizers reach people, but that seems to be getting less effective as younger people increasingly aren't using Facebook.
That creates a bit of a problem: organizers have a harder time reaching new people, and if new people aren't introduced to the scene, the scene eventually stops getting new blood and the audience starts shrinking.
Even though I’m personally fairly selective about who I invite to some of my own events, I also understand that scenes need new people coming in to stay alive. There needs to be some way for people who are interested but aren't already part of the network to discover what's happening.
That's one of the problems I'm hoping Ravebase can help with.
The basic idea is that publishing events will be free.
Longer term, organizers will also be able to optionally pay for social media campaigns. Initially, I’m looking at TikTok and Meta.
The idea isn't to make organizers become advertising experts. You upload your creatives images/videos in the required formats and Ravebase handles the campaign management for you.
There’s also a use case for events that organizers don't want to publish publicly. Events can be placed behind a password-protected page, allowing organizers to simply share a private link and password with whoever they want.
But before I build too much more, I want to make sure the core idea actually makes sense.
So I’m looking for two types of testers:
As a visitor
- Browse and search for events
- Try the filters and discovery features
- See if anything is confusing, annoying or missing
- Tell me whether you would actually use something like this
As an event organizer
- Try creating and managing an event
- See if the process makes sense
- Try the different visibility options
- Tell me what information or functionality is missing
- Give me your honest opinion on whether this could actually be useful for you
I’m especially interested in negative feedback. If something sucks, is confusing, unnecessary, or makes you think “why would I use this instead of X?” please tell me.
I’m still early enough in development that feedback can actually influence what I build next.