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The DemoStop connects four groups in one place: artists, venues and event organisers, industry professionals, and fans. Artists show what they do. Venues post the work they need filled. Everyone else searches.

The part that makes it different is the part you cannot see at first. This is a structured database, not a timeline. Nothing here is ranked by how much engagement it got, and nothing is buried for getting none. People find you because they filtered for exactly what you do, which means the tags on your profile matter more here than anywhere else you post.

Artist

Anyone who performs or creates — singers, musicians, dancers, comedians, rappers, producers, DJs, actors, engineers. You post demos, apply to gigs, and start collabs.

Venue

A venue, a promoter, or an event organiser. You post gigs and open calls, build concert line-ups, and review who applies.

Fan

Free. You browse everything, clap, follow, save, buy tickets and tracks, and subscribe to creators.

Pick the one that matches what you mainly do here. A performer who also books their own nights should be an artist — you can still be tagged into events and line-ups.

1. 1Finish onboarding if you stopped partway. Until your account type and spheres are set, most searches cannot match you at all.
2. 2Put up one demo. This is the single biggest step — on this app an artist with one demo is treated as a real account and sorts above one without, on every filtered result.
3. 3Set your location. Work is matched by where it is, so an account with no location never turns up in a nearby search.
4. 4Add a photo and a couple of lines of bio. This is what a venue looks at after your demo and before they message you.
5. 5Bring the people who already follow you. Share your profile link to the audiences you built elsewhere — nothing here will do that for you.

When you open your own profile you will see a short welcome panel walking the same ground, and it reads your real state rather than a fixed list, so it stops nagging about things you have already done.

On a computer there is a vertical rail down the left. On a phone the same destinations split between the bar at the bottom and the Menu tab.

Discover

The searchable catalogue. Artists, venues, demos, and every filter.

Shorts

The full-screen player for vertical clips.

Collabs

Open calls posted by artists — collabs, pickups, openers, jams, cyphers.

GigStop

Open calls posted by venues — auditions, gigs, contests, open mics, residencies.

Academy

Courses, taught lesson by lesson.

My Hub

Everything that is yours: saved items, playlists, tracks, courses, and the gigs and collabs you are in.

Anything you make starts from the Create button — the circle with a plus at the bottom of the rail, or in the middle of the bottom bar on a phone. What it offers depends on your account type.

Gigs, collabs and open calls are matched geographically. An account with no location cannot be matched to anything nearby, so it quietly never appears when somebody searches their own city.

You give a postal code, or a city if your country does not use postal codes, and we resolve it to a place. Your profile then shows the city and state — Atlanta, GA — and nothing finer.

A Clap is how you show something landed. It is our version of a like, with one difference that matters: claps never rank or bury anything. A demo with four claps and a demo with four hundred both sit in the same filtered results, in the same order, for the same search.

View counts are recorded but are private to the owner. Nobody browsing sees how many times your demo was played, because a low number on a new upload is a reason for a stranger to skip it, and that is a judgement we would rather they made by pressing play.

You can read the whole app signed out — every profile, every demo, every open call. A free account is what unlocks taking part: clapping, following, saving, commenting, applying, and messaging.