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Techies can help line up low-cost tickets (TicketStumbler - YC summer 08)

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Not sure why they gave Tom lipstick. Maybe it was drag night at the Herald office or maybe it was his desktop background or maybe they didn't like my fail whale t-shirt or Reddit Alien bobble head that we tried to have in the background.

If you have a chance, please leave a comment (you have to sign up, but it's super quick). Thanks guys!

I thought it was nice that Tom took the time to get all fancy for the photo...that shade of red is all class.

I agree. Tom, what did they teach you in the Army on those lonely nights?

The same thing they teach those squids. How to survive. With boys.

nice job on this!

any intention of supporting music events, or will this site remain strictly sporting? would love to find an ACL ticket for cheap. :)

Adding concerts to TicketStumbler will be huge. I have always hated trying to find concert tickets on Ticketmaster.

Another problems I've always found with concert tickets is that as soon as you get away from the mainstream, tickets are difficult to find. Sometimes you have to purchase them in person at some obscure shop, which is very inconvenient, especially if you're coming from out of town.

Hey Omakase, if you've had trouble finding tickets check out Songkick. We've built the largest database (over 20 ticket vendors now) of ticketed concerts in the world so hopefully can help.

Hey Ian -- I've used Songkick before, the itunes plugin is a brilliant idea and I like seeing your widget on all the music blogs I read.

Unfortunately, most of the time the shows I'm interested in only show up on very niche forums -- but services like Songkick are definitely making things easier than they were four years ago.

hey man i'm sorry to hear we've missed some of the stuff you go to. it's a big priority for us to go right to the very end of the tail.

we have though got pretty much every ticketed concert in the UK and US listed so would love to see examples of stuff we're missing when you come across them (ian at our domain).

Keep at it & get down under. We like music too & we can't find it ;)

I like how TicketStumbler threads always turn in to Songkick threads. Good thing I like you guys. ;p

THIS

Hi,

Thanks. It's priority number 1 right now. :)

In the mean time our blog, social ticket news site and twitter stream have concert on sale information and presale passwords (Yeah I know not near as good). If you sign up for our "New Stuff" email (top left side) you'll be alerted the day we launch concerts.

New Stuff: http://ticketstumbler.com/new-stuff/

Blog: http://ticketstumbler.com/blog/

Twitter: http://twitter.com/ticketstumbler

Social Ticket News: http://news.ticketstumbler.com/

He looks like he's offering a ticket for some lovin'! How kissable he looks...

You should have seen him with the Irish girls last night.

pics or it didn't happen.

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lol

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