WhatA B2B API and consumer platform that aggregates real-time seat availability and occupancy data across movie theaters, live venues, and event spaces to power spontaneous decision-making.
SignalThe creator built a tool showing empty AMC screenings, revealing strong consumer appetite for knowing in real time how crowded a venue will be before committing — people want to drop everything and catch a private or near-empty showing on impulse.
Why NowPost-COVID behavioral shift toward spontaneity and crowd-avoidance, combined with theaters and venues now exposing booking APIs and digital ticketing data that make real-time occupancy aggregation technically feasible at scale.
MarketB2B: sell to Google Maps, Yelp, aggregator apps wanting busyness data; B2C: premium consumer app. TAM overlaps with the ~$5B event discovery market. Competitors like Google's 'busy times' use historical estimates, not real-time seat-level data.
MoatData aggregation across multiple venue chains and ticket platforms creates a proprietary real-time occupancy dataset that is hard to replicate without the same integration partnerships.
Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets soldView discussion ↗ · Article ↗ · 320 pts · May 5, 2026
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