One could say Sidestage is an airbnb for musicians. To find out if we are right we spoke to Schuyler Deerman the man behind Sidestage.

Schuyler, you just launched Sidestage an online platform that lets you book musicians. Tell us a little bit more about Sidestage and why you decided to built that company?

Sidestage is an online plattform where anyone can find and book a musician, band or DJ. People book musicians for weddings, company events, birthday parties, etc. Ultimately, we want to enable musicians to do what they love by making it easier for them to get booked.

In a recent post you talk about your former Startup Moped which you had to close down and the learnings out of that. What will be the main thing you will do differently at Sidestage?

Moped was my first startup, I was young and inexperienced. It’s hard to regret mistakes that make you better, though. At Moped, we spent a lot of time building things we thought people would want, but in the end, they didn’t. At Sidestage, we’re a lot more focused on our core KPIs. We’re trying to make 100 people really, really happy, and not trying to do it all.



It seems like you are on to something here. After a quick search online, we were not able to find a good-looking, functional website solving the problem you are solving. Did we do the right research?

We looked online, too, and weren’t happy with anything we found, either.