Case study · Where it started

We Out Here 2026

An offline schedule app for the festival crowd, built unasked, unpaid and unofficial. Not commissioned by the festival, no official affiliation for 2026 — made in August, given to the crew, and passed round by hand.

757 sets · 28 areas · 4 days

20–23 August 2026 · Wimborne St Giles, Dorset

Open the app Next: Jazz on Wick, the official one →
The We Out Here 2026 app showing My Plan, with starred sets grouped by day
We Out Here 2026 · My Plan
Unofficial — not commissioned, no affiliation Unpaid — built in August 2026 Shared by hand — no ads, no promotion, nothing spent
The story

Built for the crowd, not for a client

We Out Here is four days across 28 areas, and the programme runs to 757 sets. Working out who is on where, and when, is the whole game — and in a field the network is not something to rely on.

So I built a schedule app that keeps the whole programme on the phone. Nobody asked for it and nobody paid for it. It was not commissioned by We Out Here and carried no official affiliation for the 2026 edition. I gave it to the crew to pass round, and that is how it spread: hand to hand, with no ads, no promotion and nothing spent on marketing.

The 757-set count comes from the app's own data on 19 August 2026, the day before the gates opened.

In the field

What the numbers say

Cloudflare Web Analytics over the festival fortnight, 10–24 August 2026, bots excluded.

5,290
page views over the festival fortnight
2,000+
people saw the Instagram launch post
757
sets on the phone, across 28 areas
Nothing
spent on marketing — shared by hand

One caveat, every time this figure is used: analytics were switched on the day after launch, so the launch-day surge is missing and 5,290 understates reach.

Speed on a festival network

Core Web Vitals, same fortnight

Google's three field metrics, measured on real visitors' phones over 10–24 August 2026.

98%
LCP Good — loading. LCP P75 668 ms
97%
INP Good — responsiveness to taps
99%
CLS Good — visual stability

Three-quarters of visits had their largest content painted within 668 ms — that is the LCP P75 figure, not an average or a median load time.

What people said

From the field

As both a punter and performer your app was essential. It was smooth, easy to use and read and worked well offline.
Sanjiv Ahluwalia — performer and festival-goer
That schedule planner is a great idea … Well done!
Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy — DJ, Balearic Breakfast host and co-curator of the Love Dancin' stage at We Out Here
The app

Two screens

We Out Here 2026 app — the line-up view, sets listed by time with their area
Line-up. All 757 sets across the 28 areas, on the phone before you reach the gate.
We Out Here 2026 app — My Plan, with starred sets grouped by day
My Plan. Star a set and it joins your day. Starred sets live only on the phone — there is no account behind them.
How it's built

What was verified

Each of these was checked, not assumed.

01Fully offline

All programme data is cached on the phone. Verified with the server switched off: the app kept working.

02Calendar export

Export your plan as an .ics file with a 15-minute reminder on every set. Event IDs are stable, so a re-export can offer to add only the new ones rather than duplicating what is already in your calendar.

03Print

Two A4 PDFs generated from the same data — 757 sets, 0 clipped, 0 collisions, 0 overflow — served from the app's print tab.

04Accessibility gate

An automated WCAG 2A/2AA check must pass before any release goes out. If it fails, nothing ships.

05No accounts, no tracking

No accounts, no tracking and no personal data collected. Starred sets live only on the phone, so there is nothing to collect.

06One honest iOS line

On iPhone, the browser and the installed home-screen app do not share storage. So the app tells people to add it to the home screen first, then star sets — otherwise the stars stay in the browser.

What this one proves

That an offline schedule app, put in people's hands with nothing behind it but the crew, gets used — and holds up on a festival network. It was not the festival's app and it does not claim to be. It supports people finding their way round a programme; it is not a safety product and it does not discharge anyone's duties.

The next step was the first festival to make one of these its official companion app: Jazz on Wick 2026.

Get in touch

Tell me about your festival

Send me your dates and a rough idea of the programme, and I'll show you what I've built and what your app could look like.

phil@melosuite.co.uk Read the Jazz on Wick case study →

Phil Godfrey t/a Melosuite · Hampshire, UK