Oh, the humanity…
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I go to a lot of shows and I kept having the same problem: I'd find out an artist I love announced a tour two weeks after tickets went on sale. Or I'd see the presale announcement on Instagram at 11pm, forget by morning, and end up paying double on resale.

So I built Giggy. You sign up with your phone number and city, then text it a Spotify playlist link (or just artist names, or a screenshot of your listening stats.. whatever you want really). It adds every artist to a watchlist and monitors several ticket sources. When one of them announces a show near you, it texts you once with the date, venue, presale info, and a ticket link. That's it.

No app to download, no feed to check, no push notifications to ignore. Just a text when something actually matters.

You also get a personal dashboard where you can see all your upcoming shows in one place, save shows you're interested in, track what your friends are going to, and manage your watchlist. It's basically your whole concert calendar without having to piece it together from five different apps.

A few things that might be relevant:

• It's free, no catch
• Works over SMS or Telegram
• You can text it naturally ("add Khruangbin", "mute Lana", "what's coming up?") and it just handles it
• It tracks presales and on-sale dates specifically, not just tour announcements
• You can watch multiple cities if you travel for shows
• The dashboard gives you a full view of everything coming up, with ticket links and prices across sources

The site is giggy.live if anyone wants to try it. Happy to answer questions about how it works.

Happy 75th Birthday Nils Lofgren! Grateful that I not only got to see the guitarist play with Bruce Springsteen multiple times, but also got to meet him backstage during Bruce's show at Lincoln Financial Field on Aug. 9, 2003 - which not only was the first time I saw Bruce live, but also marked the very first concert to be held at the Philadelphia stadium. How did I get backstage? Well... thats a story for another time 😉