From a personal notebook app in 2017 to the platform running productions today.
CueCollab started as a small Windows app I built for me and my colleagues — nothing more than timecode input, basic note-taking, and webcam snapshots, so we had a simple way to keep track of things during our own shows.
What had been an internal tool turned into something bigger: an iOS app called GMA RehearsalBuddy, built for the lighting team of a long-term production in Berlin to replace shared Google Docs as the way the team took rehearsal notes.
The app kept evolving over the following years, but it stayed constrained by its roots — notes only worked between people using the app on iPhone and iPad, never really opening up for bigger collaboration.
I took everything I'd learned and rewrote it from the ground up as a web app, built for multiple users and with as easy a setup as possible. It went on to serve many productions, evolving project by project as real shows put it to the test.
After years of refinement — doing good work on real productions — CueCollab had its first public release.
Here we are. And we're just getting started.
Download CueCollab and have your team connected and taking notes before the first run-through starts.