CrewCue digitalizes the day sheet, the printed schedule every live production crew relies on. Instead of wrinkled paper and WhatsApp chaos, the entire schedule lives on your iPhone Lock Screen as a Live Activity. Current slot, next slot, delays, weather, all synced to the whole crew in real time via push. Scan a paper day sheet with the camera and the OCR extracts your timeslots. Works on Apple Watch too. Built by a photo/videographer who spent 5 years on tour wishing this existed.
Hey Product Hunt!
Maker here. CrewCue is the side project I've been wishing existed for the last 5 years.
Quick backstory: I worked in IT from 2008 to 2019, then quit to become a freelance photographer and videographer. Since then I've spent most of my time on tour with artists and productions across Germany, Austria and Switzerland, shooting live shows, music videos and festivals.
Every single production starts the same way. Someone hands you a printed day sheet taped to the catering fridge, or buries the schedule in a WhatsApp group that pings 400 times a day. By lunchtime it's outdated. By soundcheck nobody knows if we're still on time. And backstage in the dark, good luck reading anything.
After years of this I figured I had the dev background, I knew exactly what the workflow needed, so I built it.
The feature I'm most proud of is the Live Activity on the Lock Screen. You glance at your phone and instantly see where you are in the day, what's next, and how much time is left. When the production manager pushes a delay, every crew member's Lock Screen updates in real time. The "wait, did anyone tell catering we pushed soundcheck by 30 minutes" problem just disappears.
CrewCue is iOS only right now, with a web platform for team subscriptions (Stripe). There's a Solo Plan for freelancers who work on different productions all the time, and a Team Plan for production companies and tour managers.
I'd love your feedback, questions, or just horror stories from your own production days. And if you know anyone in live events, touring, theater or festivals who might find this useful, please send them my way.
Thanks for checking it out!
Calvin
this is awesome. a world i have never considered. what did you use to build it? my mobile apps are built in react native, but it could be fun to build for this form factor.
