Lotique watches ticket prices at a curated list of walking-distance concert and comedy venues and pushes live updates into a dedicated Google Calendar. Each event's title becomes its current minimum price, so the cheapest nights of the week surface without any searching.
The Problem
Cheap last-minute tickets exist, but finding them means manually checking StubHub, SeatGeek, and Ticketmaster across many different venues. By the time you notice a good deal, it's gone. And if you're only willing to go to shows within walking distance, filtering by venue adds yet another step.
The Solution
Pick your venues once. A background scheduler pulls events from Ticketmaster, enriches each artist with Spotify metadata, and scrapes minimum prices from SeatGeek on a tiered cadence that ramps up as showtime approaches. Each event becomes a calendar entry whose title is the live price (for example, "$18 · Artist @ Venue") with buy links in the description. A quick glance at the week in Google Calendar shows where the deals are.
Key Features
- Venue discovery filtered by walking distance
- Price-aware calendar event titles that update every 5 minutes near showtime
- Tiered cron system: daily polls for far-out events, 5-minute polls in the 90-minute window around doors
- Artist previews via Spotify metadata
- Price-drop email alerts for watched events
- One-click StubHub buy links in each calendar event
- Continues checking for 90 minutes after doors to catch last-minute price dumps