Shotgun operates a two-sided ticketing and community platform for live music, with 8+ million users and tens of thousands of organizers using the product to sell tickets, manage events, and discover artists. The tech stack—React, Next.js, React Native, Node.js, GraphQL, PostgreSQL—is modern and mobile-first, but the pain-point list reveals internal friction: the team is mid-rebuild (product from scratch), struggling with offline-first communication and cross-team collaboration, and dealing with scaling challenges that are slowing hiring velocity.
Notable leadership hires: Head of Product
Shotgun is a Paris-based live music platform founded in 2014 that serves both supply (artists, tour managers, organizers) and demand (fans seeking discovery). The product layers ticketing infrastructure (sales predictions, payment processing) with community features (fan squads, artist booking marketplace) and organizer operations tools (onboarding, lifecycle management, CRM). The platform has grown to over 8 million users and tens of thousands of organizer accounts globally. Current focus areas include automating support, improving organizer retention, and modernizing the core product stack.
Shotgun's frontend runs React, Next.js, and React Native; backend is Node.js with GraphQL and PostgreSQL. Deployment uses Vercel and Heroku. Testing is handled via Cypress and Detox.
Shotgun is actively hiring in France and Portugal, with headquarters in Paris.
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