Company TimelineDated milestones, each backed by a public artefact
Executive summary
GigXchange launched publicly in early 2026 and shipped at startup pace: a relaunched website, native iOS and Android apps, the monthly GX Index gig-pay dataset, and national venue, open-mic and gig directories — all within the first six months, all verifiable through dated public artefacts.
The live record of shipped work is the public release notes page.
2026 milestones
- March 2026 — public launch period. Founder story published (What is GigXchange and why did I build it?); first monthly platform update.
- April 2026 — first GX Index UK gig rates report: the start of the monthly published dataset on what UK gigs actually pay. April platform update.
- May 2026 — Mainstage app launch (the logged-in product) and a full website relaunch. May platform update.
- June 2026 — first-90-days founder update published; June platform update; June GX Index report.
- 2026 — native apps — GigXchange ships on the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store, iterating continuously since.
- July 2026 — July GX Index report; directory coverage grows to thousands of venues and over a thousand verified open mic nights (live counts on the Investor Hub landing page and press page).
- August 2026 — this Investor Hub published; feature releases continue weekly on release notes.
Reading the cadence
Two things are notable for an investor. First, verifiability: every milestone above is a dated public artefact — a blog post, a store listing, a published report — rather than a private claim. Second, shipping velocity: the platform, two native apps, a monthly data product and three national directories were built and launched by a capital-efficient team within months, a pace discussed further in Why now and What has been built so far.
