Run the whole room
from behind the bar.
No booth. No lighting crew. Just you, a tablet, and a room that needs to look and sound alive. sho.run runs your lights, your visuals, and your mixer from one surface — between pours.
“I run our entire venue from behind the bar, and I've had zero formal training on lights, VJing, or audio. That's the whole point of this thing.”— how sho.run gets used every night
The night, as it usually goes.
- The lighting “system” is a wall of switches and a fog machine.
- Every act wants something different and you're the only one who knows the gear.
- The laptop running visuals is doing three jobs and none of them well.
- When it's busy, the show is the first thing that gets dropped.
How it actually runs.
You build the room once. After that, a warm wash for dinner, a punchy look when the band starts, and a clean blackout between sets are one tap away — or scheduled to fire on their own while you pull a pint.
One-hand looks
Fire a warm wash for dinner, a color chase for the band, blackout between sets — one tap each.
Set it on the clock
Wall-clock triggers ramp the room from happy hour to late night without you touching a thing.
Showtime lock
Lock the destructive stuff so a curious regular can't blackout the room mid-set.
Right where you work
iPad or Android tablet on the back bar. No console, no dedicated booth, no extra staff.
Same room, next week
Backup-on-save means last Friday's show is still there this Friday. Reload and go.
Mixer, too
When audio ships, duck the playlist under the mic for last call — from the same screen.
Run your next one with sho.run.
Free beta on iPad, Mac, and Android tablet.
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