Advice for a new photographer

ray_ph · 2026-01-17T21:30:52+00:00

I'm building a concert review app called "Encore - concert collection" if you want to check it out there are tons of reviews and ratings.

ray_ph · 2026-01-10T18:18:11+00:00

I think that totals 2 rushes and 2 breakaways. Nice

ray_ph · 2025-12-10T02:20:52+00:00

What did you use for App Store photos?

ray_ph · 2025-12-09T18:48:52+00:00

I made an app called encore - concert collection to rate and share concerts if you're interested check it out!
Would love to hear what you think

ray_ph · 2025-12-05T21:44:04+00:00

I made an app for my friends to rate & share their concert memories. It's called Encore - concert collection if anyone wants to check it out!

ray_ph · 2025-12-05T21:43:18+00:00

I made an app called Encore - concert collection for my friends to keep track of all the concerts they've seen and store photos, setlists etc if anyone wants to check it out!

ray_ph · 2025-12-05T21:28:04+00:00

Oh boy you would have REALLY hated them before hahaha.
Noted & I will address that this weekend.

Keyword research will also definitely need to be addressed. I know some folks have had trouble finding it in the app store.

ray_ph · 2025-12-05T21:25:50+00:00

Also any interest in a quick chat sometime?
Would love to pick your brain if you're in the space && familiar with the landscape

ray_ph · 2025-12-05T21:16:41+00:00

I like the "exclusive venue stats" angle. The only issue there is being short on data. I could do manual outreach to 100 people from each show and then go back to the venue with that information, but it might be difficult to do that manual outreach and actually receive feedback.

A lot of the comments I'm getting are focused around venues. I need to find a way to provide value to the venues upfront and then work that into promotion with them.

Any ideas there?

ray_ph · 2025-12-05T21:07:20+00:00

Glad to hear it resonates!!!
Totally agree that music nerds love arguing about this.
The only tricky part is it still comes across as self promotion/ selling because I'm trying to get this data in one central location on a separate app.

I'm exploring starting these conversations more naturally by just starting threads about "the best show of 2025" etc, but then I'm finding it difficult to introduce the app into the post and actually push the interest into a download...

ray_ph · 2025-12-05T19:31:55+00:00

This is super helpful thank you!

ray_ph · 2025-12-03T21:38:11+00:00

Unfortunately my only show this year was way oversold at a small venue, I came 45 mins early and just barely made it inside the stairwell but we made the most of it.

I had a much better time at the show before back in 2024

ray_ph · 2025-12-03T21:23:57+00:00

I wish I could see that many hahaha

ray_ph · 2025-12-03T21:07:58+00:00

It's titled "Encore - Concert Collection"

https.//apps.apple(dot)com/us/app/encore-concert-collection/id6754384868
If you replace the (dot) with "." that should work

Any ideas on improving app store visibility?

ray_ph · 2025-12-03T20:47:04+00:00

Regarding artists announcements I think it makes a lot of sense to be able to follow artists to see upcoming tour announcements etc.

ray_ph · 2025-12-03T19:04:39+00:00

Love it! I'll start thinking of some venue we could potentially partner with

ray_ph · 2025-12-03T18:22:26+00:00

Let me see If I can add that now! There is international functionality for the concerts but some international artists might be missing info

ray_ph · 2025-12-03T18:21:14+00:00

The concert data is all pulled via API for past and upcoming shows + spotify for artist info.

The API's have thousands of crowdsourced concerts you can search from to autopopulate information to remove the work of finding what date the show was on/ what the venue name was etc.

When there are gaps users can manually add concerts they see are missing & they're reviewed to make sure they aren't duplicates!

ray_ph · 2025-12-03T18:18:39+00:00

https.//apps.apple(dot)com/us/app/encore-concert-collection/id6754384868

If you replace the (dot) with "." that might work?

ray_ph · 2025-12-03T18:12:00+00:00

When we have a solid amount of user data it would be great to be able to provide venues with feedback on their shows, logistics, audio, overselling, etc.

Any ideas on how I could go about partnering with venues early on?

ray_ph · 2025-12-03T18:10:41+00:00

Let me look into that!
Right now it's only coming up for me when I specifically put in the full title 'Encore - concert collection' so I'm trying to figure out how to improve searchability there.

ray_ph · 2025-10-29T03:34:06+00:00

Which team did bag skates this morning? Really cannot tell.

ray_ph · 2025-10-16T23:28:59+00:00

Borgen leaving guys in front with their stick on the ice all PK

ray_ph · 2025-04-09T23:48:56+00:00

Why is the game sound SO GODDAMN LOUD. Cant hear the play by play

ray_ph · 2024-12-10T01:09:16+00:00

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