Event Ticket Price Tracker

Sports fans are frustrated by unpredictable ticket pricing and lack of transparency for major events like the US Open. Build a tool that tracks ticket prices across platforms, predicts price trends, and alerts users when prices drop or demand surges. Target users are event attendees looking for fair pricing and deal hunters.

Ticket resale market volatility has intensified since dynamic pricing became standard across major venues and platforms like Ticketmaster, making price-tracking genuinely useful rather than a novelty. Google Flights demonstrated that consumers will build purchasing habits around price prediction tools when the data is reliable, and no equivalent has achieved real traction in the ticketing space — though SeatGeek's "Deal Score" is the closest substitute, limiting the addressable pain point somewhat. The $1k–5k/mo revenue band is realistic for a small, focused tool monetized through affiliate commissions on resale platforms or a lightweight subscription, but it also signals a ceiling — ticket-buying is infrequent and seasonal, which makes building sustained recurring revenue genuinely hard. The biggest risk is data access: resale platforms like StubHub and Vivid Seats actively protect their pricing data and can block scraping, meaning the core feature can be killed by a terms-of-service change or a technical countermeasure with no warning.