🏷️ The Nightlife Passport

Your nights out
deserve proof.

ClubPass is the GPS-verified venue passport that turns every night out into a permanent stamp, a social identity, and a loyalty engine for the nightlife economy.

Try the prototype → See how it works
60 min
Minimum verified presence
before a stamp is awarded
1 stamp
Per phone, per venue.
No faking it.
$0
Cost to download.
Forever free for users.
88%
Gross margin per
venue partner per month
The problem

Nightlife marketing
is broken.

Venues spend thousands on ads with nothing to show. Users scroll fake reviews and can't find where to go. There's no platform built for how nightlife actually works.

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Fake reviews everywhere
Yelp and Google are flooded with biased, unverified reviews from people who've never been inside. Venues can't control their narrative. Users can't trust what they read.
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No verified social context
Instagram posts have zero verification. Anyone can claim they were at LIV on Saturday. There's no proof of presence, no signal quality, no trust layer.
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Venues are flying blind
Club owners have no real foot traffic data, no loyalty intelligence, no way to know who their regulars are or how to bring them back. Nightlife runs on gut feel.
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No discovery layer for users
"Where should we go tonight?" is still answered by texting friends or scrolling dead feeds. There's no real-time, trust-based nightlife discovery platform.
How it works

The stamp
means something.

You can't buy it. You can't fake it. You have to show up — and stay.

1
Arrive at the venue
User opens ClubPass and scans the venue's QR code. The code is HMAC-signed and rotates every 24 hours — screenshots from yesterday are invalid.
2
GPS verification begins
App sends a heartbeat ping every 3 minutes. PostGIS checks: is the user within the venue's geofence? If yes, dwell time increments. If not, the clock pauses.
3
Stamp awarded at 60 minutes
After 60 GPS-verified minutes, the stamp is locked to the user's passport. Points are awarded, content upload is unlocked, the venue's stamp count increments.
4
Content goes live
Only stamped guests can post photos and videos for a venue. Every piece of content in the app is 100% verified. No fakes, no randos, no manufactured hype.
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Jordan M.
Miami · Gold tier
GOLD
COLLECTED STAMPS
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⚡
🌹
POINTS
1,240
🔥 HOT SPOTS
🏛️
LIV Miami
Fontainebleau
HOT
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Story Miami
South Beach
HOT
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E11EVEN
Downtown
🏷 631
14.2k
Avg organic feed impressions
per venue per night
43%
Of stamped users are Gold
or Platinum tier
88%
Gross margin per venue
partner per month
$125
Total monthly infra cost
at MVP launch stage
Features

Everything Yelp, Instagram,
and Google can't give you.

ClubPass combines verified attendance, social identity, real-time discovery, and venue loyalty in one platform.

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GPS-verified stamps
60-minute GPS heartbeat verification. One stamp per phone, per venue, ever. Unique constraint enforced at the database level — not just app logic.
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Stamp-gated content
Only verified guests can post photos and videos for a venue. Every piece of content is authenticated. No fake posts, no paid promoters masquerading as guests.
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Live friend map
See exactly which venues your friends are stamped into right now. Real-time via Socket.io. The answer to "where should we go tonight?" is built into the app.
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Social passport
Every user builds a permanent record of venues they've actually attended. Stamps equal clout. Gold and Platinum users become the social proof that drives others to show up.
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Hot spot trending
Venues pay to push to the top of the trending feed. Push notification reaches 4,200+ users in the city. Attach a custom offer. Track ROI in real time on the dashboard.
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Venue intelligence
Live stamps, dwell time, arrival heatmap, guest tier breakdown, crowd-sourced price intel with anomaly alerts. Data nightlife venues have never had before.
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Rewards engine
Users redeem stamp points for free entry, VIP upgrades, merch, and profile upgrades. Venue-funded perks cost venues nothing — they drive traffic in exchange for promotion.
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Leaderboards
Monthly rankings across friend groups, cities, and globally. The competitive mechanic that keeps users coming back every weekend to protect their rank.
Business model

Four revenue streams.
88% gross margins.

Users are free forever. Venues pay for data, visibility, and loyalty infrastructure they can't get anywhere else.

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Hot spot placement
$99 / weekend
Pay-per-activation trending placement. Push to top of feed, push notification to city users, custom offer attachment.
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Partner subscription
$199 / month
Full venue dashboard, guest tier intelligence, arrival heatmaps, content moderation, weekly reports. Recurring SaaS revenue.
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Rewards margin
~60% margin
ClubPass merch, profile upgrades, virtual goods. Venue-funded perks cost ClubPass nothing — venues fund their own rewards.
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Data licensing
$500–2k / report
Verified crowd behavior data sold to event promoters, venue consortiums, and nightlife marketing agencies. Unlocks at 5k MAU.
REVENUE PER VENUE / MO
$399
COST TO SERVE / MO
$48
GROSS MARGIN
88%
TOTAL INFRA (MVP)
$185/mo
Market opportunity

Nightlife is a
$115B industry
with no passport.

The global nightlife market is massive, growing, and completely underserved by tech. The closest competitor just shut down.

Foursquare shut down its City Guide app in late 2024 — the space is literally emptying out
No existing app combines verified stamps, social media, and venue loyalty for nightlife
Miami is the ideal launch city — highest venue density per capita in the US, strong influencer culture
City-by-city expansion model — same product, new venue partnerships, plug-and-play rollout
Network effects compound — more users = more stamps = more content = more venues = more users
$115B
Global nightlife market size
8.2%
Annual market growth rate
0
Direct competitors in this exact space
Miami
Launch city · 500+ eligible venues
Roadmap

Miami first.
Then everywhere.

City-by-city playbook. Each market launches with founding venues, grows organically, then monetises.

PHASE 1 · MONTHS 1–3
Miami soft launch
20 founding venues, free Listed tier, 500–1,000 early users. Product validation. No revenue — proof of concept.
$0 MRR target
PHASE 2 · MONTHS 4–6
Monetise Miami
Convert 15+ venues to Partner. Hot spot weekends live at $99. 5k+ MAU organic growth loop active.
$8k–$14k MRR
PHASE 3 · MONTHS 7–9
City 2 — Orlando / Tampa
Replicate the Miami playbook. Rewards shop live. Data package pilots with event promoters.
$22k–$30k MRR
PHASE 4 · MONTHS 10–12
Scale to 5+ cities
NYC, Atlanta, Houston, Las Vegas. Raise seed round on MRR proof. Data licensing deals active.
$55k–$80k MRR
Why now

The space is open.
The timing is perfect.

Three signals that make this the right moment to launch.

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"Foursquare just shut down its City Guide app in late 2024, ending the only major venue check-in product that existed. The space is literally empty."
Market signal — competitor exit
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"Gen Z nightlife spending is at an all-time high post-pandemic. They want experiences they can document, share, and prove. ClubPass is built exactly for this behavior."
Consumer behavior — generational shift
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"Miami nightlife venues are already adopting tech — QR menus, tap payments, digital reservations. The infrastructure for ClubPass exists. We just need the passport layer on top."
Market readiness — venue tech adoption
Get involved

Ready to stamp
your name on this?

We're looking for founding venue partners in Miami and seed investors who understand the nightlife economy.

Try the prototype → See venue dashboard
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Venue partners
Join as a founding partner. Free to list. First Hot Spot weekend on us.
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Investors
Raising pre-seed. Deck, financials, and full product brief available on request.
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Early users
Try the prototype. Join the waitlist. Be first to stamp Miami.
partnerships@getclubpass.app