Industries · Entertainment and events
In short
Entertainment products are judged in real time by a crowd. A cinema booking has to finish on a phone in a dark foyer. A conference programme changes on the day, and the change has to reach every attendee's phone as it happens. A venue's audio has to arrive in an attendee's ear with no delay worth noticing. Star Cinemas, Meecon and Ourcast Live each solved one of those.
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Case studies · Entertainment, events and media
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All case studiesEntertainment
Ticketing across 100+ screens, rebuilt so seat selection works on a phone in under a minute.
The old flow asked for a cinema, a film, a date and a time before it would show a single seat, which is three screens of commitment before any value. We rebuilt it around the seat map, with showtimes as a filter rather than a gate, and made the whole path work one handed on a phone in a dark foyer.
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An event app with agenda, speakers, sponsors, polls and questions, plus an admin inside the app so organisers edit on the day.
Meecon puts the whole conference on a phone: events and sub events, speakers, sponsors, live polls and audience questions. The unusual part is the admin, which lives in the same app, so an organiser can change a session or add a speaker from the floor.
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An assistive listening product that streams a venue's audio to attendees' phones in real time, with native iOS and Android apps and an admin for broadcasts.
OurCast Live turns a phone into a personal assistive listening device. A venue broadcasts, attendees tune in and hear every word clearly, with no extra hardware. Native apps on both platforms, a Node.js and MongoDB backend on AWS, and an admin for broadcasts, account types and interests.
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Three products, three kinds of live audience. These are the things we would say to a cinema chain, a conference organiser or a venue before the first sprint.
Star Cinemas' old booking flow asked for a cinema, a film, a date and a time before it would show a single seat: three screens of commitment before any value. Across 16 venues and more than 100 screens, each with its own layouts and pricing, that funnel was costing bookings on phones, where most of the traffic was.
We rebuilt the flow around the seat map, with showtimes as a filter rather than a gate, and made the whole path work one handed. From opening the site to a chosen seat now takes under a minute on a phone. The lesson travels to any ticketed product: show the thing people came for first, and let everything else narrow it.
Meecon puts a whole conference on a phone: events and sub events, speakers, sponsors, live polls and audience questions. The unusual decision was where the admin lives. It is inside the same app, so an organiser can move a session, swap a speaker or add a sponsor from the floor, and the change is pushed to every attendee as it happens through Firebase notifications.
Live polls and questions during talks turned the audience from spectators into participants, and the organiser never had to leave the hall to find a laptop. For events, the ability to change the programme on the day is the feature that matters most and the one most apps forget.
Ourcast Live turns a phone into a personal assistive listening device. A venue broadcasts, attendees tune in and hear every word clearly, with no extra hardware. Latency decides whether that works, so the apps are native, Swift on iOS and Kotlin on Android, and the broadcast backend is Node.js with MongoDB on EC2 with S3 media, with a Next.js admin for broadcasts, account types and interests.
The deployment lives on the client's own AWS account and is documented, so their team operates it without us. For a product that venues depend on during a live show, owning the infrastructure is part of the product.
What we build
A seat is chosen in under a minute on a phone.
Attendees get the agenda, the polls and every change on their phone.
The programme changes from the hall, not from a laptop backstage.
Every word reaches the attendee's ear with no extra hardware.
Latency sensitive products run natively where it matters.
The platform runs on your AWS account and your team can operate it.
How it ships
The path Star Cinemas, Meecon and Ourcast Live took, from the foyer to a release judged by a live crowd.
Numbers from the work
Taken from the case studies, not rounded up.
100+
screens ticketed through one Star Cinemas booking system
Under a minute
from opening the site to a chosen seat, on a phone
In app
Meecon's organiser admin for sessions, speakers and sponsors
Real time
venue audio on an attendee's own phone with Ourcast Live
Yes. Star Cinemas is the example.
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