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JAMS
The map renders live Esri World Imagery satellite tiles centered on your GPS location. 108 musicians and 8 venues appear as color-coded pins. Click any pin and a centered popup modal appears with a hero banner, animated waveform, and full artist info. Click the backdrop to dismiss.
Clicking a venue opens a popup with a rich illustrated hero banner, upcoming show listings, capacity info, phone, and a one-tap booking inquiry. Eight real Capital Region venues are mapped: Revolution Hall, Lantern Room, The Egg, Hangar on the Hudson, Pauly’s Hotel, The Hollow, Brown’s Brewing, and Putnam Den.
Type in the search bar to filter musicians and venues simultaneously by name, genre, or instrument. 12 genre chips narrow results instantly. The radius slider (5–200 miles) updates both the map circle and the list in real time. A Troy drummer searching “bass” finds every bassist within 50 miles in under a second.
Info — hero banner art, animated waveform, distance, bio, availability calendar, and Connect button. Social — YouTube, SoundCloud, and Spotify results with play counts. Bandcamp — album art grid with pricing; one tap to purchase. All social links open externally; no credentials stored.
The Capital Region has hundreds of working musicians who never find each other. A jazz pianist in Troy can open Jams, filter to Jazz within 20 miles, and find three trumpet players, a bassist, and two drummers who are actively looking for exactly their kind of project — all with their bios, Bandcamp links, and availability already visible.
Every venue on the map is currently booking acts. A folk duo in Schenectady can tap Brown’s Brewing, see they have an acoustic night every Tuesday, check upcoming shows, and send a booking inquiry in three taps — without leaving the app or making a phone call.
The Open Gigs tab lists dated performance opportunities at real venues needing acts: songwriter rounds, jazz jams, hip-hop cyphers, and summer fests. The Collab Board shows live musician requests — “ISO trumpet,” “band forming,” “need producer” — with a one-tap Respond button. A reggae guitarist who just moved to Albany knows who’s looking and where to play within minutes of opening the app.
The app is a single 1.5 MB HTML file. Email it to a musician friend. They open it, find collaborators, send booking inquiries, and close the tab. Nothing is written to their computer. No account, no password, no tracking. When they share it with their bandmates, those bandmates don’t inherit any data from the previous session.
This app stores no data on your device. All state is held in JavaScript session memory and cleared when the tab closes. No cookies, no localStorage, no IndexedDB. Location data is used only to calculate distances and is never transmitted. External links (Bandcamp, YouTube, Spotify, SoundCloud) open in your browser under those platforms' terms.