emailho.me

I'm an opera director and scenographer.

I direct international ceremonies, luxury gala dinners,

live shows where time is the raw material and every

second counts.

For years I used the same tools everyone uses: Excel for

the rundown, Trello for the team's tasks, Milanote for

mood boards, a stopwatch app for cue timing, the client's

inbox in a separate tab.

Five different tools.

Five different views.

Five incompatible truths about the same show.

Six weeks ago I started building emailho.me for one reason:

every existing piece of software for live production got

the same thing wrong.

They let computer time — setInterval, calendar deadlines,

cron jobs — drive the rundown.

On stage time is not the computer. Time is the audio.

It's the real duration of the soprano's aria. It's the

four minutes of the orchestra piece. It's the ninety

seconds of pyro in the finale.

So in my software the MP3 is the truth. The audio file's

progress bar dictates the node's duration. The rundown

player reads that duration, not a value typed in by hand.

When you press Play a stopwatch doesn't start: the music

does. And everything else — lights, cues, the next scene —

follows the music the way an orchestra follows the conductor.

This is a lesson I carried from my world into software.

It's not a technical detail. It's the right way to think

about time when time is the raw material.

emailho.me · https://emailho.me

— Cristian