Plugverse.
The marketplace for local artists, venues, and organizers.
Every gig starts from scratch. Bio rewritten. Setlist re-attached. Rate re-explained. Contract copy-pasted from a Google Doc. There's no LinkedIn for local music. No Airbnb listing for "here's who I am, what I charge, when I'm free."
Airbnb.
Rooms existed before Airbnb. Bookings existed before Airbnb. What didn't exist was the layer that made it standard. Listings, identity, payments, reviews.
Local music has the same gap. Plugverse is the layer.
A three-sided
marketplace.
Artists list their availability and rate. Venues post their stages and dates. Organizers find the right act and book it in one flow. Contract auto-generated. Payment in escrow until the show is done.
One profile, every gig
Bio, setlist, rate, samples, dates available. Send the link instead of the twenty-minute pitch.
Fill the calendar
Post the room, the date, the budget. Discoverable to every artist on the platform.
Book the show end-to-end
Search, offer, sign, pay. One flow. Free to use. Contract and escrow handled for you.
Send a link.
Get booked.
Every artist gets a public profile at plugverse.app/their-name. Bio, samples, setlists, rates, calendar, instant book. Copy the URL into a venue's DM and the conversation is already half done.
Organizer side.
Recording from the live UI. An organizer drafts a direct offer to an artist with performance time, arrival time, lineup role, and budget. The contract auto-fills from the artist's profile. Sign, hold the payment in escrow, done.
- One offer flow for any gig type
- Auto-generated contract from artist + venue defaults
- Payment held in escrow until the show is performed
Twenty grand.
Won the Luby Pitch Competition: $20,000, zero equity given. Hosted by Innovate Carolina at the Junction. Plugverse's biggest achievement so far, four months after founding.
- $20K Luby Pitch · Innovate Carolina Apr 2026
- $1.85K 1789 Student Venture Fund 2025
- LLC Plugverse LLC · NC Mar 2026
I play in a band. I plan events for my fraternity. I am a CS and business student building the product myself with Claude Code. I am not guessing at the problem. I live on all three sides of the marketplace.
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