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Handbill
Sell tickets and check in guests with no per-ticket cut, paid to your own account
- Score
- 65
- confidence 59
- Evidence
- 9
- items on the page
- Rivals
- 4
- named in sources
- First version
- 40 d
- estimate
- Type
- Desktop and mobile
- PWA: on computers and phones alike
- Market since
- 2010
- Mature market · AI estimate
ScreensConcept
Desktop and mobile: Organizers set up events and review sales at a desk, but scan guests in at the door from a phone—both setup and on-site work are critical. Sample screens on a computer and a phone, in the proposed brand. Their numbers are sample data.
Harbour Folk Fest
On sale412 / 600
About this appAI proposal
Handbill is an event registration, ticketing and check-in app for organizers of conferences, concerts, festivals and meetups. You publish an event page, sell tickets through your own Stripe account, and scan guests in at the door from a phone.
Handbill takes no cut of ticket sales. Payments go straight to your account, so you pay only the payment processor's own charges. Your attendee list lives in a database you control and exports in one click, so you can leave whenever you want.
It is for organizers who object to percentage fees and locked-in attendee data but do not want to run servers. Technical teams can later point it at their own database.
- Tagline
- Your tickets, your money, your guest list.
- Voice
- PlainDirectFairWarm
- Why this name
- A handbill is the printed flyer that announces an event. The word is short, plain and old, and it points to organizers doing their own promotion.
In the first version
Members say which features they would use. It tells PWAS what people want; it changes no score.
Flat pricing, no ticket cut
A fixed monthly price replaces percentage fees. Ticket money goes straight to your own Stripe account.
No member yet
Ticket types and codes
Early-bird, group, member and free tickets, with capacity limits, sale windows and discount codes.
No member yet
Door check-in that works offline
Scan QR tickets with a phone camera. Check-ins queue offline and sync when the signal returns.
No member yet
Attendee data you own
Export every attendee, order and answer as CSV at any time. Delete a person's data on request in two taps.
No member yet
Brand identityAI proposal
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Palette
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Typography
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Your tickets, your money, your guest list.
PricingAI proposal
Eventbrite's pricing page (verified) lists a free plan, one paid plan at $15 a month and prices on request for larger customers. These tiers sit near that and are a starting point to test. Stripe's own charges still apply.
Free
Free
- Free events unlimited
- 1 active paid event
- Door check-in
- Handbill badge on pages
Organizer
$12 a month
- Unlimited paid events
- Your logo, colours and domain
- Discount codes and custom forms
- CSV export, no ticket cut
Studio
$39 a month
- Team seats and roles
- Webhooks and API
- Bring your own Postgres
What it could be worthEstimate
What a software business making this much sells for today, from real deals. Pick a monthly revenue.
If it makes
Worth about
$190,000
Sale range $132,000 to $263,000
$120,000 a year in revenue
From 87 software businesses listed and sold on Empire Flippers in the last year, revenue vetted by the broker: they sell for about 19× their monthly revenue, most between 13× and 26×.
Measured on profit, the middle deal is 32× monthly net profit: about 2.7 years of profit.
An estimate, not an offer or financial advice. A real price depends on profit, growth, churn, how much of the work is the owner's, and the buyer.
How it would growAI proposal
How the product would reach new customers through its own use, and how the first ones would be found. A plan to test, not a result.
- Built-in loop
- Shared outputs. Every event page, ticket email and QR ticket is sent to attendees. Free-plan pages carry a small Handbill badge linking to a signup page for organizers.
- Do they become customers?
- Attendees see the badge, and some of them run their own events and could become paying organizers. Test how many badge clicks lead to signups.
- First customers
- Organizers of small paid events (100 to 800 guests) such as music nights, local festivals and professional meetups, who run them on Eventbrite, Ticket Tailor or Tito today.
- Where to reach them
- Organizer communities: Post fee comparisons in meetup-organizer and festival-organizer groups and offer to migrate one event free.
- Open-source forums: Reach people looking for self-hosted ticketing, such as users of Attendize, and offer hosted plus export.
- Direct outreach: Email organizers with upcoming events on competitor pages with a fee savings estimate.
- First milestone
- Five organizers run a real paid event on Handbill and pay for a plan within 90 days.
Why people already pay for this
- VerifiedGitHub repository gained 4055 stars in 1082 days
- Public claimA market exists for self-hosted, open-source alternatives to commercial event ticketing platforms
- AI inferenceThe project has significant adoption and community validation
- AI inferenceMultiple commercial competitors charge for event management and ticketing services that organizers want alternatives to
- Public claim
Tech stack
Every proposal builds on the same PWA base, installable from the browser on any phone or computer. Dashed boxes are what this app adds.
- AppNext.js and TypeScript
- PWAManifest and service worker
- UITailwind CSS
- Data and authSupabase Postgres
- PaymentsStripe
- EmailResend
- HostingVercel
- This app · Payments modelStripe Connect or direct organizer keysTicket money must go to the organizer's account, not through ours, so no cut is taken.
- This app · QR scanningIn-browser camera barcode scanning libraryDoor check-in needs fast QR reading in a PWA, plus an offline queue.
RisksAI inference
- CommercialOrganizers who choose self-hosting may not pay for a hosted tool, and an open-source alternative (Attendize) already exists. Willingness to pay a flat fee needs testing.
- TechnicalDoor check-in must work on poor venue Wi-Fi. Offline queues risk duplicate scans if two phones scan the same ticket.
- RegulatoryHolding attendee personal data and handling refunds brings privacy-law and consumer-rule duties that differ by country.
- PlatformRelying on Stripe and its account rules means an organizer's account can be paused, which stops ticket sales.
- CommercialBig events want fraud protection, reselling controls and reserved seating, which the first version will not have.
Everything marked AI proposal or AI inference was written by a model from the evidence on the opportunity page. The proposed name must be checked against trademark registers before it is used.