Deploy and Host Openfront Comedy Club with Railway

Openfront Comedy Club is a self-hostable application for comedy clubs. Guests browse upcoming shows, choose a ticket tier or a table, and pay online. Club staff run the show calendar, lineups, door check-in, table seating, food and drink checks with a two-item minimum, comedian pay and the nightly close.

About Hosting Openfront Comedy Club

This template provisions the application from its GitHub repository, PostgreSQL, and a private native Railway Bucket named Storage. The database starts empty; no demo records or reusable credentials are included. After deployment, open /dashboard/init to create the first admin, then run setup from the sidebar card.

DATABASE_URL references Postgres and the five S3_* variables reference the Storage bucket. Generated per deployment: SESSION_SECRET and CRON_SECRET. NEXT_PUBLIC_APP_URL, STOREFRONT_URL and SMTP_STORE_LINK use the service's public domain.

The app gets a Railway-generated public domain. No custom domains are included.

Admin Dashboard

Tonight (door check-in, seating, checks and running order), Shows, Orders, Approvals, Lineups and talent, Open mic, Floor and menu, Payouts, Reports, Promo codes, Customers, Payment providers and Settings.

Storefront

Upcoming shows, a show page with the lineup and a tier or table choice, checkout with a hold timer, order confirmation with ticket codes, find-my-order lookup with self-cancel, and open mic signup.

Calendar, Lineups & Talent

Weekly show templates, headliner runs, open mic nights with a lottery, and lineups with host, opener, feature and headliner. Each comedian's fee is copied onto the slot when booked.

Tickets, Seating & Checks

Price tiers with server-owned capacity, 10-minute holds, promo codes and comps. Door scans never admit twice. Parties are seated at tables, and checks enforce the per-guest minimum at close.

Payouts & Settlement

Closing the night creates comedian payouts and a settlement covering tickets, fees, discounts, refunds, food and drink, tips and talent cost.

Common Use Cases

Selling tickets and tables for nightly shows
Running the door, seating and table checks
Booking comedians and settling the night

Dependencies for Openfront Comedy Club Hosting

The app needs a PostgreSQL database and S3-compatible object storage. Both are provisioned by this template.

Deployment Dependencies

Implementation Details

Next.js and Keystone 6 with a GraphQL API, Prisma, and PostgreSQL. Stripe and SMTP variables are optional and blank; add your own keys and a Stripe webhook pointing at /api/integrations/payment/pp_stripe/webhook to take card payments. Call POST /api/cron/expire-holds with Authorization: Bearer $CRON_SECRET every minute to release expired holds.

Why Deploy Openfront Comedy Club on Railway?

Railway is a singular platform to deploy your infrastructure stack. Railway will host your infrastructure so you don't have to deal with configuration, while allowing you to vertically and horizontally scale it.

By deploying Openfront Comedy Club on Railway, you are one step closer to supporting a complete full-stack application with minimal burden. Host your servers, databases, AI agents, and more on Railway.