Consumer app
PreGame
A festival companion: explore the artists playing, build your own set-by-set schedule, and export it to your phone's lock screen. Designed, built, and shipped — live now.
See it live
The short version
The others are concepts. This one you can use.
The problem
Festival days are a planning mess: dozens of artists across stages with clashing set times, buried in a clunky official app or a static PDF poster. You over-plan in a notes app — or wing it and miss the sets you came for.
The bet
One focused loop — explore the lineup, pick your sets, export the plan as a lock-screen wallpaper. No accounts, no social layer: everything that wasn't the day-of problem got cut.
Shipped
Designed, built, and shipped solo. Live now for Lightning in a Bottle '26 — works offline in airplane mode, collects no personal data.
The artifact
The live schedule, five stages deep.
pregame-music.com · screenshots captured from production, July 2026
Product judgment
Built like a product, not a demo.
The lock-screen trick
Your picks export as a wallpaper. Day-of, the plan is one glance away — no app to open, no signal needed, battery-proof.
Offline-first
The schedule and map are stored locally; the app tells you it's safe to go airplane mode. Festival-grounds reality drove the architecture.
Private by default
A single first-party cookie to count visits. No ads, no personal data, and 'no thanks' is a first-class button — respect as a feature.
What shipping solo taught me
The hardest product decision wasn’t what to build — it was holding the line on one festival done right before generalizing to many. Sharing got cut, accounts got cut; the lock-screen export stayed because it’s the one feature that works when the network doesn’t. The open risk is lineup freshness — set times shift the day of, and a plan that’s wrong is worse than no plan. That’s the next thing to earn.
The problem
Festival days are a planning mess: dozens of artists across stages with clashing set times, buried in a clunky official app or a static PDF lineup. You either over-plan in a notes app or wing it and miss the sets you came for.
Metric that matters
Primary: schedules built and exported to the lock screen — real planning, not just installs. Guardrail: day-of re-opens, since the plan has to survive contact with a live festival. Leading: artists added per schedule.
Key tradeoff
Built a focused companion — discover artists, build a set-by-set plan, export it to your lock screen — instead of a social or ticketing platform. Cut sharing to ship the core planning loop that actually solves the day-of problem.
Biggest risk
Lineup-data freshness when set times shift last-minute, and scope discipline: nailing one festival experience before generalizing to many.