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Advancing Buddy

Tour planning without Excel and WhatsApp. For bands, crews and booking agencies.

Type
Venture with Kevin Meyer and Berkant Ihtiyar
Our role
Co-founding, Development, Operations, Sales
Period
since March 2026
Status
Testing by invitation, a company of its own with the co-founders in preparation
View
advancing-buddy.com (external link)
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advancing-buddy.com

The task

Before every show, a touring production clarifies dozens of details with the promoter: schedule, stage, hotel, transfers, technical requirements. This usually happens over email, WhatsApp and Excel sheets. Kevin Meyer and Berkant Ihtiyar know this from life on tour. Together with them, we founded Advancing Buddy.

What we built

  • One workspace per show: crew, schedule, travel, hotel, rider and files in one place.
  • A questionnaire link for promoters. They fill it in without creating an account.
  • Travel plans as PDF and import from Google Drive, Dropbox and OneDrive.
  • Subscriptions with a trial period and payment via Stripe.

What it achieved

Advancing Buddy is in testing, with access by invitation. We build and run it ourselves, and a company of its own with the co-founders is in preparation.

Tech

App
Angular, RxJS, PWA, pdf-lib
Website
Astro, Tailwind CSS, GSAP
Backend
Python, FastAPI, Pydantic, SQLAlchemy
Database & cache
PostgreSQL, Redis
Login
Keycloak, Passkeys, Google and Microsoft login
Payments
Stripe
Files
MinIO, ClamAV, Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive
Email & push
SMTP, Web Push
Infrastructure
Docker, Docker Compose, nginx, Let's Encrypt, Hetzner
Security
UFW, fail2ban, encrypted backups
CI/CD
GitLab CI
Tests
pytest, Vitest, k6

Planning something similar? Tell us about it.

30 minutes on the phone. After that, you know whether we are a good fit.

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Lukas Kreuzer

+49 175 4053475

hello@kreuzertec.de