The live CyprusSound homepage: 'What's playing on the island', tonight's gigs and the island-wide pulse of venues and artists, built and operated by Backlight Media
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CyprusSound · Our own platform

Every gig on the island. Built from zero.

[ The problem ]

CyprusSound is not client work. It is our own product, built from zero and run as owners: a live music discovery platform where every gig, every venue and every artist worth knowing surfaces the day it matters. It exists on the site for one reason: when we tell a client we build systems, this is one anyone can open and use.

[ What we did ]
  1. 01Built the platform from zero on a lean modern stack: a custom Supabase backend, server-rendered pages, and a PWA that installs to the home screen.
  2. 02Automated the content ingestion, so gigs, venues and artists stay current without a manual editorial team behind them.
  3. 03Structured every surface for search: venue and artist pages engineered to rank for the island's music queries.
  4. 04Operate it as owners: onboarding venues and artists across the island, with follows, leaderboards and dashboards for the people who run the scene.
[ Outcome ]

CyprusSound is live: 59 venues and 62 artists across the scene, from basement clubs to amphitheatres, with tonight's gigs surfaced city by city. It is the standing proof behind the Ventures pillar: the same strategy, systems and build capability we sell is running our own product in public.

59Venues on the platform
62Artists across the scene
[ From the day ]
CyprusSound homepage showing 'What's playing on the island' with tonight's gigs and the island-wide pulse, built by Backlight Media
What's playing on the island · the live pulse
CyprusSound venues page listing 59 live music venues across Cyprus, from basement clubs to amphitheatres, built by Backlight Media
59 venues · basement clubs to amphitheatres
CyprusSound artists page with 62 artists across the Cyprus scene, from metal to traditional, built by Backlight Media
62 artists · metal to traditional

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