In DevelopmentLive Entertainment

Casa59

Not a feed. A room you return to.

Casa59 Product

The Problem

Why This Exists

Free platforms are firehoses. A performer pulls seventeen thousand viewers and maybe ten of them actually came for that performer. Reach is not an audience, and a room full of tourists is not a room.

The Solution

What We Built

Casa59 inverts it with four stacked mechanisms: paid entry, a hard cap of thirty to two hundred seats, a fixed weekly slot, and a performer-owned room. Payment filters for intent, the cap creates intimacy, the schedule creates ritual, and ownership creates loyalty to the host rather than to the platform.

Capabilities

Key Features

Paid, members-only shows with a hard seat cap and a fixed weekly slot
No algorithm, no discovery feed, no trending — discovery surfaces would reimport the tourists the gate exists to keep out
Invite-only clubs, where the funnel is the host sharing their own door link
Performers set price, cap and schedule, and are merchant of record on their own Stripe account
A 3D supper club in oxblood and brass — a lit proscenium, candlelit tables you claim a seat at, patrons as figures with speech bubbles
Tap-reactions that drive a collective warmth glow and play back as sound
Lean in at your table, opening your mic to your tablemates and ducking the act to a bed without ever leaving the room
A host studio with roll-call member notes, a live guest mic, timed rundown segments, tonight-only drops, and a browser audio desk

Technology

Tech Stack

TypeScriptNext.js 16Tailwind 4Prisma 7PostgreSQLAuth.jsLiveKitreact-three-fiberthree.jsWeb Audio APIStripe ConnectRailway

Architecture

System Design

01

Four stacked filters — price, cap, schedule and ownership — standing in for the algorithm the product deliberately does not have

02

Server-enforced track-subscription permissions, so table-scoped video is bounded by the server rather than by the client

03

Durable seat and huddle state with data packets for live sync, and egress to S3 for replays

04

A Web Audio graph mixing mic and music through a limiter, published as a single LiveKit track

05

Stripe Connect Standard with the performer as merchant of record, the platform taking an application fee and staying in the footer

06

Broadcast-grade transport as the one platform guarantee, because paid live entertainment cannot feel like a video call

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