We love apps like Songkick and What’s Lively, they let you know about all the gigs that are coming up in your area and even offer cool functionalities that let you purchase tickets and organise the night with all of your mates.
But wouldn’t it be cool if there was a service that would not only inform you of gigs that are coming up in your town, but would actually let you and your friends attend as many as you like with the touch of a button?
Enter Jukely, which as TechCrunch reports, is a promising new service that offers users an unlimited subscription to concerts for just $25 a month. It works like ClassPass, except instead of gym classes (boring) you get to see live music (awesome).
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“We asked how much people would pay — $100? No. $50? Still too high. Then we asked if they’d pay $25 and that seemed to spark their interest,” Jukely co-founder Bora Celik told the SF Music Tech Conference.
Jukely came out of the Techstars NYC 2013 accelerator program and works like an online matchmaker, but for concerts. The app uses an algorithm to determine your tastes, matches you up to people with the same tastes, and then suggests concerts you may want to check out together.
It’s almost like two birds with one stone: check out awesome concerts and have someone to go with. It’s this intelligent model that has seen the app now grow to a user base of 30 million people and their connected friends.
According to TechCrunch, “You won’t find bigger names like Taylor Swift or Gaga on the subscription list. The idea is to fill the room and expose folks to bands that are just starting to blow up, but have enough of a presence to sell a few of their own tickets, too.” Okay, so three birds.
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If you’re wondering how it’s possible to attend an unlimited amount of concerts for just $25 a month, that’s also part of Jukely’s ingenious model. According to Celik, the situation is a win-in for Jukely and promoters, who get to make money by filling otherwise empty ticket orders.
So what’s the catch? Well, at the moment the service is US-only and is currently in beta mode, with only a select list of subscribers able to sign up. If you’re looking to get on the waiting list or just looking for more info, head on over to the Jukely official website.
In the meantime, rest easy in the knowledge that the creators recently managed to raise a healthy $2.5 million from angel investors, which they hope will let them build the subscription service and spread out to other areas.
