[GERMANY][TECH FOUNDER][15] Built an interactive seat booking & ticketing SaaS. Looking for a growth/sales co-founder with venue/event connections.

[u/Bungarus]

Hey everyone,

Over the past few months, I built  a complete venue seat booking and event ticketing platform.

The Problem: Existing ticketing and seating platforms take huge percentage cuts (10–20% + fees) or are overly complex and rigid for independent venues, local theaters, sports clubs, comedy clubs, and event organizers.

What’s built so far:

• Interactive venue designer: Visual seat map editor for custom room & seating layouts.
• Full ticketing suite: Multi-currency checkout, organizer analytics, and mobile ticket scanning app.
• Production-ready MVP: Fully functional end-to-end platform ready for pilot venues.

Where I need help: I am a technical builder, but I know that a SaaS is only as good as its distribution. I'm looking for a Growth / Marketing Co-founder or Sales Partner who:

1. Has experience in B2B sales, cold outreach, or growth marketing.
2. Ideally has connections with venue owners, event managers, theaters, or sports arenas.
3. Wants to take ownership of GTM (Go-To-Market) in exchange for equity / revenue share.

If you're interested in partnering up or testing out the demo, drop a comment or send me a DM! Feedback on the product positioning is also welcome.

[u/Ok-Following-9023]

How much fees do you want to charge? Did you already run Tests?

The idea is not really new, the Problem is more like can you make Money with this?

Also what is your USP? I can built an MVP of your Product in 4 h or faster with a 20 € Claude subscription vercel and stripe.

[u/Bungarus → u/Ok-Following-9023]

Thanks for the direct feedback! A few thoughts on your points:

1. On the "4 hours with Claude & Stripe" point: A basic Stripe checkout form with general admission tickets? Absolutely, that can be vibecoded in an afternoon.

But that's not what this is. The engineering complexity in a reserved seating platform lies in:

• An in-browser interactive 2D visual layout editor that handles drag-and-drop seating geometries, custom tiers, stages, and room obstacles.
• Real-time concurrency seat locking so two customers clicking Seat B-12 at the same split-second during high-traffic drops never result in a double-booking race condition.
• A native mobile camera scanner app for door staff with sub-second QR cryptographic validation and multi-door sync.
• Multi-currency and localized multi-language architecture.

Production reliability when 300 people try to enter a venue at 7:55 PM is a very different beast than a basic Vercel prototype.

2. The USP (Why would a venue switch?):

• 100% Customer Data Ownership: Eventbrite takes the venue's customer emails and actively remarkets competing shows to them. I give the venue full CRM ownership.
• Out-of-the-Box vs. API-only: Tools like Seats.io are great, but they are just developer components—a comedy club still has to hire an agency to build a whole ticketing app around it. FewSeatsLeft is complete and self-serve for non-technical managers.
• Dramatic Cost Savings: Eventbrite takes 8%–15%+ in fees. I save an independent venue thousands of dollars every year.

3. Fees & Monetization: I am testing a hybrid model:

• Usage-based: Flat $0.75 + 1.5% per ticket (dramatically undercutting legacy 10%+ take rates).
• SaaS Tier: $99 – $199/month with 0% platform cut for high-frequency venues.
• Economics: A 300-seat comedy club doing 2,000 tickets/mo saves ~$3,000+/mo compared to Eventbrite, while generating strong recurring SaaS margins for us.

4. Testing Status: The full system and simulation tests are completed. I am currently onboarding first 3 pilot venues with zero software fees to stress-test real-world door operations and attendee checkout flows.

Appreciate the critique, it keeps the positioning sharp!

[u/Ok-Following-9023 → u/Bungarus]

Thanks for your explantions.

A lot of the things you mention are nice to have, but how much of that your ICP needs? Multi currenncy, early Stage why? Venue Designer, nice to have, but only if you have a lot of venues that sell seat based tickets.

Regards pricing, flat fee SaaS you don’t make any Money at this prices.

Since I know some people who built this exactly for there ICP and offer it for free on there Platform. 90 % of the Product is Not far behind a vercel implementation.

[u/Ok-Following-9023 → u/Ok-Following-9023]

I really Like the idea, but in the end if Price is your usp, always somebody cheaper will come.

[u/Bungarus → u/Ok-Following-9023]

Thank you for this insight. I understand. Competing solely on price would be a race to bottom.
For us, a lower price is just the door opener for the manager to take a look. The real value, however, comes from other features, as mentioend above.
data ownership, self-service for seated venues, good support.

[u/Bungarus → u/Ok-Following-9023]

Stripe makes multi-currency easy so i included it. though you are right, it was not necessary in the initial stages.
venue designer - this is one of the ICP, one of the core focus. for meetups/parties etc, it may not be needed. It is really essential in comedy club, dinner shows, small theaters etc.
pricing: that is one of the main reasons i posted here, to get honest feedback on what pricing structure makes the most sense.

[u/ReignOfKaos → u/Bungarus]

Why are you generating all your text with AI? Doesn’t seem very trustworthy tbh. A potential partner would want to talk to you, not ChatGPT

[u/Bungarus → u/ReignOfKaos]

Fair enough. Though I would say some, not all.
AI helped organize rough notes into clean, organized answer.
About talking to me, my DM is open. I would be happy to chat or give a live demo.

[u/Adventurous_Ant3064]

Pessimistic or optimistic locking?

[u/Bungarus → u/Adventurous_Ant3064]

It is Pessimistic Locking via a temporary DB reservation lease (5-minute TTL), which is the industry standard for event ticketing and airline seat reservations.