TicketProof
Secure digital ticketing for live events.
A while back I was at an event and watched the person ahead of me in line get turned away.
Their ticket scanned as already used. They had bought it from a reseller. The reseller had sold the same QR code twice - once to them, once to whoever got in first.
The venue couldn't do anything. The organizer couldn't do anything. The reseller was long gone.
The whole situation took about 90 seconds. That person lost their money and missed the show.
I kept thinking about it afterwards. Not because it was dramatic - it happens constantly but because it's a completely unnecessary problem. The technology to prevent it has existed for years.
A traditional ticket is just data. Data can be copied. That's the entire vulnerability.
An NFT is ownership. Ownership can't be copied. You either hold the token in your wallet or you don't.
So I built TicketProof which is an event ticketing platform where every ticket is minted as an NFT on Hedera, transferred to the buyer's wallet on purchase, and verified at entry by confirming wallet ownership. No screenshots. No duplicates. No fake resales.
What it does:
Organizers create events and mint NFT tickets in minutes
Buyers receive tickets directly to their Hedera wallet via HashConnect
Entry verification confirms on-chain ownership instantly
Full organizer dashboard for event and attendance management
Built solo with Next.js, TypeScript, and the Hedera SDK.
If you run events or have dealt with ticket fraud from either side, try it out and tell me what you think.
👉 https://ticketproof.vercel.app
📁 https://github.com/Tapetal/TicketProof
1 Comment
Interesting build.
The thing I'd be careful with is assuming the challenge is ticket fraud itself.
The harder decision may be whether organizers are actually buying fraud prevention, or something else that fraud prevention happens to support.
Those sound similar, but they can lead to very different first-customer decisions.
I wouldn't make that call casually this early.