Decentralized event tickets

Create a mobile app that let's you create events and sell/distribute online tickets for access control.

None - My expertise is in marketing and advertising so I am looking for a developer interested in developing this together with me!

When hosting an event, no matter if free or paid access, you can use a 3rd party service like Eventbrite to create and distribute tamper proof tickets and validate them easily using a mobile app. While this service is free when hosting a free event it does cost quite some money when you are hosting a paid event.

For example an event with 500 tickets for €15.- each will cost you around €1.000.- in fees.

Also for the free service you never know which of your personal information is sold to other entities by Eventbrite and similar services. So what exactly are we looking for:

1. A mobile app & web interface to create the event and enter all the relevant infos about the event itself. As the host you would also create the keys for this event and store them on your phone in order to verify the tickets later.

1. The possibility to define the maximum amount of tickets you want to distribute and the price of each ticket.

1. An interface for your guests to buy/get those tickets and store them directly in the app. Free tickets would only require the guest to pay for the transaction fee in ADA to create the ticket on chain. Paid events would require the full amount (ticket price + TX fee) to be paid in ADA and distributed directly to the event creator.

1. The mobile app would also be used to verify the ticket at the entry using a QR code scan and checking the validity of the ticket on chain

Challenges I currently see:

1. As purchasing of tickets needs at least some ADA to pay for the TX fees, or larger amounts in case of paid events, we would need some kind of fiat onramp for that. As it will often be only very small amounts not sure how that can be handled without too much overhead? This could be the biggest barrier for event creators as each guest needs to hold ADA. For free events we could maybe reverse it and have the creator deposit the needed amount of ada instead, but it's a disadvantage against Eventbrite where free events are free of charge.

1. A small percentage of the ticket price, in case of paid events, shall go to a developer fund to pay for the maintenance and development of the app in the long run. Maybe we could start only with free events for the beginning and establish a fee structure later.

As I said earlier my background is marketing and advertising and I am more than happy to take over that part and the whole business part behind this. The technical side is something I definitely need your support and input if that really works the way I imagined it and after that in developing it. That's also the reason why I can't specify an amount of funds to request for this project at this point in time!

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!

Thanks Wunderbaer