G’day, I’m
Johnny Bell.
I build things for live music.
I’m a full-stack engineer and the founder of Evvntly, a nationwide event discovery and ticket giveaway platform for live music, comedy, and sports.
About
I started out in Melbourne agencies, then spent a decade bouncing between San Francisco startups and bigger platforms. Full-stack engineering for StackShare, Weedmaps, and Dutchie. Spoke at a few conferences along the way.
These days I’m the founder and lead engineer of Evvntly, where I’ve shipped a full-stack events platform (mobile app, web, API, scraping pipeline, giveaway engine) mostly solo. Most weeks I’m half engineer, half promoter, half designer. That’s three halves. It tracks.
Off the clock I’m usually at a show or taking terrible iPhone photos of the stage.
Where I've worked
- Since 2024
Founder, Lead Engineer · Evvntly
Nationwide event discovery and ticket giveaway platform. Built the full product solo. Mobile, web, API, scraping pipeline, giveaway engine. See the featured section below.
React NativeNext.jsNode.jsPostgresFirebaseStripe - Prior
Senior Full-Stack Engineer · Dutchie
Cannabis commerce platform. Shipped consumer-facing ordering experiences and internal tooling for dispensaries.
ReactTypeScriptNext.jsGraphQL - ·
Senior Frontend Engineer · Weedmaps
Cannabis discovery and marketplace. Built and shipped features across the main consumer web experience at scale.
ReactReduxNext.jsTypeScript
Featured · Evvntly
Founder · Lead Engineer · Since 2024
A nationwide event discovery and ticket giveaway platform connecting fans with live music, comedy, and sports.
Built the whole stack.
React Native (Expo) mobile app and Next.js web on the front, Postgres, Firebase, and Node.js microservices on the back. Designed it, shipped it, keep it running.
Aggregates 2.5M+ events.
Custom automation using Puppeteer and Sharp pulls venue calendars, normalises them, and makes them discoverable. The pipeline runs daily on a cron.
Runs a giveaway engine at scale.
In-app giveaway platform distributing thousands of tickets weekly. Integrated analytics dashboards, automated marketing pipelines, and Slack-based operational reporting.
Grew it organically.
20K+ users and 90K+ monthly web visitors, grown through targeted digital campaigns and community engagement. No paid growth hacks.
Partnered with the majors.
Venue partnerships across California, Arizona, Nevada, New York, Colorado, and Texas, including Live Nation, Goldenvoice, and AEG Presents.
Today, I lead venue partnerships, client acquisition, and marketing strategy, expanding Evvntly’s footprint and helping promoters drive real attendance to shows and festivals nationwide. To date, Evvntly has distributed tens of thousands of tickets and saved fans over $2M in ticket value.
Get in touch
Working on something cool?
Always happy to chat. Freelance full-stack work, platform consulting, speaking, or just a friendly g’day. My inbox is open.
Currently taking on a few outside client projects alongside Evvntly.
[email protected]