Mastodawn

I developed this platform and have been using it within my circle to help us when organising events. This year, I tested it at PyCon Namibia 2026, where we used it for participant check-in. It reduced our workload significantly, we simply scanned QR codes with our phones instead of manually checking spreadsheets.

Features include:

- QR + Kiosk check-in
- Real-time dashboard
- Auto-generated PDF badges
- CSV reports with full data export
- More features (hidden)

It’s built with Python/Django .

After losing my job, a friend encouraged me to take it seriously, add more features, and open it to the community to generate income while I look for my next opportunity.
It has already been helpful at their company during workshops and corporate events all these years.
I will need your support once it is launched, testing and use it.
Currently, I’m unsure how to handle the payment gateway, as most of them don’t work here. Any advice?

I am also targeting organisers outside Namibia, and i need a global payment processor. I want to make it right and share the link.

@adamchainz @django @djangocon @djangochat @CodenameTim

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Benjamin Balder Bach Mar 4

@muheuenga in my experience, the market for ticketing systems is very saturated, so in commercial terms, you won't be competing on price/features, as much as your relation to the local market.

if you can mature your system by gaining good local contacts and grow a user base that way, then I think you can succeed with a new system. You can be adding integrations to other popular systems within your context.

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Benjamin Balder Bach

@muheuenga Re: payments - be careful here: You should try to avoid being a taxable entity that handles the entire revenue of an event.

What you probably want is to support a popular payment platform, then use the API tokens of the event organizer to direct payments to their systems.

The event organizer will have to handle approval/KYC with the payment provider that you direct them to use.