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7 years, 5 months ago - Paddy Robinson-Griffin

Hi Matthew,

You mention Mandy (formerly CastingCallPro/FilmAndTVPro) which has a pretty good interface for casting and crewing, certainly not the worst. If you mean a phone app, I'm not sure it's that big a deal, is it? I mean when advertising a role it tends to be for a film and so have at least one laptop in Production!

Or am I misunderstanding? :)

7 years, 5 months ago - Marlom Tander

If you mean a phone app, I see no need. This type of site is information dense and needs a decent screen to view and a proper keyboard to enter info.

And Crewr.com and Actr.com are gone (damn, would have been worth a punt).

If you mean that no UK site - SP, Mandy etc - has achieved universal love, and you have better ideas, there lies an opportunity my son :-)

Cheers

7 years, 5 months ago - Vasco de Sousa

I'm not sure what you mean. I can think of sites like meetup, and what you're saying also reminds me of hiring uber drivers. (I don't use Uber, but from what I've heard that's what it sounds like.)

When I worked at BT, they tried to create a "app" for taxi drivers and buying cinema tickets. They advertised it heavily while working on the tech, and then gave up before it was finished. That was years before I heard of Uber or Netflix. Now there are more competitors, more options similar to what BT was trying to do, but BT still isn't in the game and wasted all that money.

Lesson? Don't advertise your idea when it isn't ready.

If I were making it, membership would be free, but there'd be prefered placement through adverts (like the yellow pages and search engines have.)

I think you might be the man to start a business creating such an app. Work on a plan, let me know when you're looking for investors or at least ready for a coder. How to make it happen? Advertise for a coder as a partner, outline a plan for your idea, and approach financiers together.

(If you like, private message me with your contact details and more information, and I'll see if I can help or know any coders who can understand you. Maybe we'll find an idea that works.)

7 years, 4 months ago - Vasco de Sousa

One of Shooting People's lesser known competitors just developed an app, I just received an email about it this morning.

7 years, 4 months ago - Matthew Prince

Now I didn't know about about Talent Manager but it is doing exactly what I was talking about. However, being available in an app and using a scalable map woulld be such an improvement. They need to advertise it more! How come I'd never heard of it until now?