Topic: [ANN] | GET Protocol | GUTS.tickets | Live Product - page 23. (Read 35097 times)

is this project same with EventChain. they support online ticket too

I am interested, GUTS is a user-friendly platform that keeps the process of purchasing a ticket as simple and clean as possible for all parties involved,
because at this time very little tickets purchasing as simple and clean. good luck GUTS.tickets

Hi Stavri, thanks for your interest! You are right in your assessment that there are some similarities with the Aventus ICO. There is some overlap in that Aventus also wants to provide a protocol/infrastructure that provides an internal primary and secondary market for ticket holders of a certain event. As finding similarities is quite easy, as both initiatives strive to solve the problems in the primary and secondary ticketing market I will focus on the differences in this post. I am not in any way trying to put Aventus down or criticize their approach/solution just want to provide you with my view on how these two companies are different.  

Difference in execution / market penetration
GUTS was founded in 2016 and has been active in the market since. As of now, GUTS tickets employs 9 people of which 6 are developers, some of these team members are relatively new, some of them have been with GUTS for quite some time. Between 6/2016 and 6/2017 this team has predominantly been preoccupied with developing and testing a ticketing system that works and is able serve the needs of both the event organizer as of the consumer using the system (so usability and UX wise) Only after GUTS had gained this valuable market experience (for examples check our blog!) in the several pilots GUTS conducted the decision was made to do an ICO in order to accelerate the growth and  further push toward more transparency and decentralization. With all these lessons gained by experience in mind, the GET-protocol white paper was written in the summer of 2017. At the moment of writing GUTS has an already live and operational product, with paying customers and a team that has formed organically of the course of 1.5 years.  Everything described in the white paper comes from a very practical 'but will it actually work' perspective and less from a 'wouldn't it be cool if' angle. I am not saying the Aventus WP is written from that angle, just mainly pointing out the GUTS white paper and its proposed and partially already realized and tested solutions are written with the operational/practical nuances of the industry in mind. Also, GUTS has already gained experience in how to onboard customers in a bootstrap manner, something you won't necessarily learn when you start off all comfortable.    

Difference in concept / solution
The Aventus solution seems to have a heavy focus on putting tickets on a name, which will mean that everyone entering the venue will have to identify him or herself with an ID or credit card. While this is approach will prevent that tickets can be sold outside of the system (as the verifiers at the venue will be able to look up to whom the ticket is registered) if will be very costly both monetarily(in manpower needed for verification) as in processing time(everybody has to be checked 1 by 1) In the past, there have been several bands that have demanded that their tickets are sold on name (there still are bands that require that) and as such there are ticketing companies specialized in that type of ticketing (Friendly Fire for example) The solution you can see working in our sandbox environment(and tested during real events) is based on phone verification via SMS(other verification methods will be added soon) In the age of mobile tickets we believe that the printed out QR has had its time and is ready to be retired. Aventus has mentioned on their blog a few weeks ago that in some cases (lower value ticket) they would consider nesting the tickets in phones cache like GUTS but they still seem to prefer to put the tickets on the buys name. While I can see that one would find that this point is quite a straw-man argument (somebody more objective should access that) I really do think that this difference is one of the more important one's concept wise. Aventus did propose a quite intuitive revenue sharing structure in their white paper for the secondary market (so that the original seller would also profit from the sales on the secondary market) GUTS currently only lets people sell their ticket for the original price (the fact that we currently do this is again more operational, but still give credit where credit is due - it is a cool idea that also inspired us in a way)

That being said, I encourage any initiative that strives to make the ticketing market more fair and transparent. It would be a 'scarcity mindset' to presume that there is only room for one blockchain based ticketing solution. Ticketmaster sells more than 500 million tickets a year (http://www.billboard.com/articles/business/6890347/live-nation-2015-earnings-7-6-billion-revenue) and has a yearly revenue of more than 7 billion US dollars (in 2015) Competition (especially blockchain based solutions) will keep us sharp and innovative, in the end it all about execution and we sure as hell are ready for it  

As mentioned you can verify everything I said by visiting our blog on Medium (https://blog.guts.tickets/), try out our Sandbox(https://sandbox.guts.tickets/) or research the 'realness/seriousness' of our clients for yourself! If you have any questions let me know.

I checked the project a bit. it is very similar to aventus. Aventus collected really good amount in the crowd funding. I think there is a good market cap for ticketing platforms, because of it similar projects are coming day by day.

Through our smart ticketing application! What you see are the ownership changes as registered by our smart ticketing contract.

As for which event the tickets were sold for, it is a Jochem Myjer comedy show (we blogged about this show: https://blog.guts.tickets/announcement-ticket-sale-of-new-jochem-myjer-show-in-doetinchem-fd027841d990 I am not able to provide you with a link to the ticket sale yet because it was was an invite only ticket sale for members of the theatre in Doetinchem. After offering the tickets to the members the tickets will be offered/available to the public. Looking at the contract only 200 of the 700 tickets have been sold as of now, so probably the remaining +-500 will be sold publically in a few days. I'll drop a link to the public ticket sale in this thread as soon it goes live (it will sell out in minutes btw) The secondary market sales will be registered by the same contract, so even after the show is sold out on the primary market the ownership changes between consumers will be shown as well.

If you want to buy a free ticket of your own please visit https://sandbox.guts.tickets/ we sell free smart ticket over there. The ownership changes of these tickets are by the way also registered on chain (you can visit your Rinkby testnet wallet if you create an account on our smart ticketing application!) Let me know if you have any questions!

Hi nonokeci! My apologies for the somewhat late reaction to your comment. Like others already mentioned in the thread, GUTS has been around for quite some time(founded mid-2016) now and has a live and operational product with paying customers. You can read all about in on our blog: https://blog.guts.tickets/ As an operational ticketing company with real clients to please and events to monitor we don't have the luxury of creating marketing smoke about our ICO around the clock (like all the other more conceptual phase ICO teams that you may be used to) Creating a proof-of-concept or wire-frame is a lot different from having a product that is used by real consumers in the ticketing space. A large part of the complexity in this industry shows itself in the operational phase / real consumer interaction phase.
 
We, of course, are aware that marketing is important for the confidence of the public in our concept and team, in upcoming works you'll hear more about our latest product additions and partners. So be sure to stick around  

Hi there Burntsnow, my apologies for this somewhat late reply. We have been quite busy the last weeks with an important verification and ticket sale event. But now that most of the client feedback from these events is handled GUTS will have a lot more development power available to interact with the community! We are certainly looking forward to it.

Concerning your white list question, if you are on the white list you should receive an email every week with updates/news about the GET-protocol ICO. As also mentioned earlier we'll be using a customized version of our smart ticketing application to streamline the ICO process. Contributors on the white list will receive an email with the instruction how to acquire a smart ticket for the ICO.  This smart ticket will serve the white listed a unique contributor address.

By using our own tested and operational smart ticketing application for the ICO we'll be able to showcase our tech as well as be certain that scammers can't duplicate our front-end to scam contributors (as the smart ticketing application is server-side)

The details of our token sale will be announced next week. We will publish a blog post, will update here too.

thank you,
will be there also a annoucment before the tokensale will begin, and where will be the annoucment

Hey bitcoindima! Thank you for your interest.

We plan to have our token sale in October.

where can we buy coins

well slack can be useful it seems. I learned that there is already a whitelist going on the website.

Our marketing has just begun. In fact, our slack is up.

Please read the details about our slack here:
https://blog.guts.tickets/opening-of-the-get-protocol-ico-slack-8518aee5db69

French translation live : https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/annico-get-protocol-gutstickets-fonctionnel-presale-le-25-octobre-2161257

Did you read this thread? (answer of your first question is already given)
Did you look at the website? (there is already industry adoption)
Did you read the whitepaper? (just read it)

how do you compare yourself to players like aventus? and its a shame that not much marketing has been to push the product. any partnerships in the pipeline? to that end, theres nothing to see here if there's no industry adoption

I was just thinking the same. And which entertainment.
Could you give us more information?

Through where people are buying tickets?

Landing applications explained in more detail, but also a good direction, but the price is somewhat expensive, I may be an air drop, then, now there is no relevant activities?

wow. this is nice. is there a ui we can watch the live sales? maybe android app?