Infantino just told fans to "chill" about World Cup ticket prices.
The guy running the tournament is telling the people funding it to relax. Peak 2026
energy.
FIFA promised $60 World Cup tickets. Fans are paying thousands.
Dynamic pricing rewards people who don't care about the game and punishes the people who do.
$7,517 for an upper deck seat at MSG. Josh Hart called it ridiculous. He plays there.
FIFA is under federal investigation for ticket pricing. The World Cup hasn't even started.
Every major event in 2026 has the same story. Resellers won. Fans lost.
Copped the @ycombinator rejection email.
Honestly, I forgot we applied.
Since submitting, we kept building.
Launched a new product to help execute on our $1.1M event pipeline, laid the foundation for AI fan intelligence, and kicked off GTM with 80,000 impressions in week one.
VC money helps.
Momentum matters more.
Garrett Wilson can't afford Knicks finals tickets.
A father and son who've waited years for this moment can't either.
The cheapest seat is $3,554.
This is what happens when tickets stop belonging to fans.
@tickify_io is fixing this
The live events industry in 2026
Governments: we will cap resale prices
Scalpers: cool we will just use more bots
Fans: why are tickets $800?
Artists: we have no idea who came
Venues: same...
@tickify_io : we built the thing that fixes all of this
The biggest problem in ticketing is not just scalping.
It is data loss.
Every ticket resold through a third party marketplace breaks the fan relationship.
The artist does not know who bought.
The team does not know who attended.
The organiser cannot identify true fans.
Tickifyโs on-chain resale keeps the intelligence inside the ecosystem.
@tickify_io
We are live! ๐ฅ
King of the Ring is now running on Tickify.
1,500 fans using our technology in real time.
Our largest event to date ๐๏ธ
events.tickify.io/events/d53โฆ
Things we replaced/built with Claude Code this week:
DocuSign
LinkedIn lead gen
Website redesign
Event organiser LOC workflow
What used to take weeks and thousands of dollars tookess than 7 days and one Claude subscription.