A festival guide that keeps working when the network doesn’t.

01 / The Situation

Two audiences, one stressful environment.

Festival-goers need the timetable exactly when mobile networks are at their worst. They want to save artists, find the right stage and hear about changes without installing a different app for every event.

Organisers have the opposite problem: schedules move until the last minute, but building and maintaining a dedicated app is expensive. They need a dependable publishing tool without becoming a software company.

02 / The Product Bet

Design for the moment the connection disappears.

We made the attendee experience offline-first. The calendar, saved artists and essential festival information remain available when thousands of phones compete for the same signal near the main stage.

The calendar borrows a familiar mental model from iCalendar and Google Calendar, then adapts it for festivals with many simultaneous stages. Stages containing favourited artists move forward, and people can hide the rest when the full schedule becomes noise.

03 / For Organisers

A dashboard in their pocket.

For the MVP, we deliberately built administration into the mobile app instead of starting with a larger web dashboard. An organiser can change a set time or send a notification while moving through the venue—not after they return to a laptop.

Six festival founders used the admin panel to publish their own lineups without tutorials. I used the same interface to add more than 60 festivals, which made every rough edge impossible to ignore.

04 / Learning in Production

Small behaviours became product rules.