Venues and pitches
Keep notes on every venue, festival and concert series. Track each pitch from first email to booked show, and see which ones are waiting on a reply.
The business side of your band, handled.
Indie musicians do a million jobs before they play a note. Roadie keeps booking, setlists, rehearsals, tours and money in one place, so you can get back to the music.
Free and open source. Built by a working musician.
The job description
You're not just a band.
You're also the booking agent, accountant, tour manager, designer and social team. And somebody still has to write the songs.
- 01Research venues
- 02Pitch shows
- 03Negotiate fees
- 04Check who's free
- 05Build setlists
- 06Run rehearsals
- 07Track the money
- 08Plan tours
- 09Make posters Coming
- 10Post to social Coming
What Roadie does
One place instead of four spreadsheets and a group chat.
“Is everyone free on the 14th?”
Add the possible dates, send one link by Signal or email, and everyone taps yes or no per date. You get a table instead of 47 messages.
| Fri 14 | Sat 15 | Fri 21 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drums | Yes | No | Yes |
| Bass | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Keys | No | Yes | Yes |
Fees in writing
Guarantee, door deal or versus: log it with the show and check it against what you actually got paid.
No more napkins
Build setlists from your song library. Save templates for the 45-minute set, the 90-minute set and the duo night.
Duo tonight, full band Saturday
One booking book, a different lineup per show, set as late as the day before.
The gig nobody pays you for
Where, when, who's coming, songs pulled from a setlist, recordings in Google Drive, and the gas money.
The whole run in one place
Turn pitches into dates, add drives and lodging, and give every show a day sheet.
- Load in
- 4:00
- Soundcheck
- 5:30
- Doors
- 7:00
- Downbeat
- 8:15
Who paid for the gas?
Log show income as it comes in: cash, checks, the tip jar. Everyone logs their own expenses, and Roadie works out gas from the route, your MPG and local prices. Settle up after tour without a fight.
Just tell Roadie
Talk to the built-in assistant or the chatbot you already use.
Crowd was about 80. Got $400 cash.Logged for tonight's show.
The right info for each person
Admins run booking, pitches and the full books. Band members see shows, songs, setlists, their own expenses and their payments. Everyone signs in with Google.
The business plan
I don't want your money.
Not a subscription, and not a cut of your gigs. Roadie is open source and built to break even, not to make a profit. Every month I publish what it costs to run, and here's who pays that bill, in order.
I pay it
While the bill is small, I cover it.
Grants
Arts councils, open source funds and music organizations. If a grant covers hosting, nobody pays.
Cost share
Only if grants fall short: a recent bill divided by active artists, charged every few months so card fees don't eat it.
- Cost share isn't a price. When the bill drops, your share drops. When a grant lands, it pauses.
- Can't pay? Same app. No locked features, no paywall, no pro tier.
- No investors, no ads, no selling your data. Nobody can buy Roadie and jack up the price.
- Your files stay in your Google Drive, so the usual biggest cost isn't even on the bill.
- If it gets big, it becomes a nonprofit. Any salaries go on the same public bill, and any change is announced with numbers before it happens.
Cost share math · example numbers
$1.50 a month$9.56 every 6 months, including card fees
Copy it.
Open source, no restrictions.
The code, the design and the ideas are yours to take. If someone builds something better from it, that's a win for musicians.
- Run your own copyOne Firebase project per band. Host it yourself and pay your own bill.
- Export everything, any timeYour band's data never gets locked away.
- Built in publicThe cost page and the changelog are public. You can see what I built, what it cost, and what broke.
- Musicians should own their toolsNot rent them from a company that might raise the price or get bought.
On the roadmap
What's next.
I'm building what working musicians ask for. These are coming, not here yet.
Printable setlistsScheduled posts to Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and TikTokStage plots for venuesFan sign-up QR codesMerch linksAlbums
Why I'm doing this
I'm a working musician. I book my own shows and load my own gear. I got tired of tools that take a cut, raise the price, or get bought, so I'm building the one I wanted, in the open.
Named after the hardest-working person on any tour: the one who loads in, runs cable and tapes the setlist to the stage, so the band can just play.