Are you looking to go out?
Nightlife discovery for gay and bisexual men. Who's out, what's on, how to get there and how to get home, with care built in. Tickets with no organiser fees for the people who run the nights.
Phil Gizzie · Founder · SMASH DADDY LTD
Twenty years running gay nights. Then I built the app I needed.
SMASH DADDY LTD is the company behind HOTMESS, OutOut, HOTMESS RADIO and RAW CONVICT RECORDS. We ran the doors, the bars and the decks for twenty years, then built our own estate from a laptop. Now we build for the venues, promoters and brands that hold the scene up.
- HOTMESS
- OutOut
- HOTMESS Tickets
- HOTMESS RADIO
- RAW CONVICT RECORDS
- HNH MESS
- Smash Daddys
We're not a software company that found the gay scene.
We're the scene, and we learned to build.
Every product below exists because one of us needed it on a night out and it wasn't there. That's the whole method.
The estate
Four products. One night. Built for gay and bisexual men.
Each one is a thing we sell on its own, and each one feeds the next: the venue map feeds the app, the app feeds the door, the door feeds the station, the station feeds the label.
Your venue is already on the map. Make it yours.
2,700+ LGBTQ+ venues and 5,800+ events across 34 cities, kept current, with Mona to ask. Claim your venue for free, or talk to us about the data.
Always too much, yet never enough.
A 24/7 station for gay and bisexual men, with resident shows, a page for every DJ, and sponsorship and in-venue radio for the people who want to be heard on it.
Built for the floor.
Built for the floor. The HOTMESS single and its remixes, the residents who made them, Toolbox on Fridays, the Smash Daddy catalogue, and GRANULE playable in the browser.
SMASH DADDY
We've run the nights. Now we build what the scene runs on.
We build platforms and solutions for gay venues, promoters, brands and community organisations. The four products above are the proof. Every service below is something we already run; the Work page shows it live.
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Venue and event websites
A site that sells the night, lists the events and takes the booking.
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Ticketing with no organiser fees
Sell tickets to your own crowd without handing a cut to a third party.
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Venue discovery and data
Listings, maps and event data that help the right people find your door.
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Member apps with safety built in
An app for your crowd where safety, consent and aftercare sit next to the party.
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Radio stations and DJ pages
A station, resident shows and a page for every DJ.
Proof radio.hotmessldn.com (opens in a new tab) smash-daddy.hotmessldn.com (opens in a new tab)
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AI assistants for venues
A site assistant that answers your crowd's questions in your voice. Mona does it on OutOut.
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Labels, releases and audio tools
Release pages, a label presence and tools your producers can use.
Proof music.hotmessldn.com (opens in a new tab) GRANULE on Gumroad (opens in a new tab)
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Launch content, print and merch
Brand packs, in-venue posters, show cards and print-ready gang sheets for the launch and after.