tired events is a small software company in brooklyn, ny, making ticketing for the rooms we actually go to.
the short version: two people left a bigger ticketing company because they watched it get loud. the discovery feed got louder. the fees got louder. the push notifications got louder. the emails about other people's shows got louder. the organizers — the people actually doing the work — got quieter.
so we went and built the thing we wanted to use when we were throwing shows on the side. it was easier to build than to explain.
the math is the point.
we charge zero percent to organizers. the buyer pays 6% + $0.50, capped at $12 a ticket. instant payouts are 1%, next-day payouts are free. refunds cost nothing. there is no customer tier where we are incentivized to change any of this.
that's not a marketing line. it's our pricing page. pricing.html. we write our fee into the terms of service. if we ever change it, the terms will tell you before we do.
we're not here to disrupt anything. we're here to give you a better receipt. — maria santos, co-founder
the rooms we're building for.
tired works well for: listening rooms, comedy rooms, supper clubs, founder dinners, reading series, breath-work sundays, sound baths, 200-cap basement shows, tasting menus that sell out on instagram, rave aftercare brunches, book launches, open-mic tuesdays, and 47-seat theaters. it works less well for: 12,000-cap amphitheaters with dynamic pricing, and that's fine. there's already a market for that.
how we work.
price in public.
every cent we take is on the pricing page, itemised on the receipt, and written into the contract. nobody has to ask us what our take is.
quiet by default.
we don't push-notify you. we don't email your buyers. we don't recommend. we do not have a “for you” feed.
your list, your list.
every export button works. every webhook delivers. leaving is a csv download, not a conversation.
ship the receipt.
we optimize for the organizer closing out the night. everything is designed around that 11:47pm bank notification.
by the numbers.
the people.
maria santos
previously led organizer tools at a large u.s. ticketing company. threw weekly shows at a now-shuttered bar in ridgewood for three years. maria@
jordan seo
built payment infrastructure at stripe and a small fintech before that. runs the kitchen-table recording series on saturday nights. jordan@
r. ayala
ex-linear, ex-vercel. thinks about the wizard and the receipt all day. former house-music promoter who is almost but not totally done with that phase.
plus eight more — two in nyc, three in mexico city, two in lisbon, one in berlin. nobody is an intern and everybody gets their name in the commit.
the investors, in case you're wondering.
seed, august 2024. led by susa ventures. participation from basis set, heart core, and twenty-three angels — all of whom have either thrown shows themselves or bought tickets to too many of them. we raised $5.8m. we did not take directed or strategic money from anyone in the ticketing industry.
our pricing page is literally in the investor deck. the thesis survives the margins. if it doesn't — that's on us.
how to talk to us.
press: [email protected] · press kit
sales (only if you want it): contact
support: help.tiredevents.com
jobs: nothing public right now. try us in january — jobs@
— the team, may 2025