Promoters can't find local nerd-music acts — crowdsourced map + directory

Promoters can't find local nerd-music acts — crowdsourced map + directory targets a $4.8B = 80,000 live-music venues & promoters x $60K avg annual spend on talent discovery, booking & promotion total addressable market with low saturation and a year-over-year growth rate of 6–10% — steady growth in live events and niche community monetization tools.

Key trends driving demand: Microgenre & fandom growth -- niche communities (nerdcore, chiptune, VGM) increasingly monetize live shows and want centralized discovery.; Decentralized promotion fatigue -- promoters tired of manual outreach prefer searchable, verified rosters.; Verticalization of platforms -- general social platforms deprioritize niche discovery, creating openings for specialized directories.; AI-enabled data aggregation -- NLP and entity resolution make consolidating fragmented artist/event data scalable..