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Find a second shooter. Or be one.

It is Tuesday. Saturday is a two-shooter wedding and the person you would call is booked. The next three do not reply, and the one who does you have never seen shoot. Mark the days you are free here and local videographers can find you — and you can find them — before it gets to Tuesday.

the switch

The whole product is one checkbox, and it starts off

Signing up does not opt you in. Absent means off, on purpose — nobody gets listed as available for someone else’s Saturday by accident.

It is in your account, under Availability:

List me as available for second-shooter / crew work

Turn it on and you appear in local searches, on the days you marked available, to other listed videographers. That is the whole change. No email goes out, your leads and your profile are untouched, and turning it back off drops you out of search immediately.

Turn it on in your account →
what they see

Every field a search returns

Not a summary of it — this is the record, straight off the projection the search is built from.

id
name
city
shootTypes
reel
note
slug

There is no email in that shape, so there is no path that puts one in a search result. Contact is exchanged the moment a request is accepted, both ways, between those two people only. Declining costs you nothing and tells the other person nothing beyond a no.

the two switches

Findable and free are different things

This is the part people get wrong, so it is worth thirty seconds.

01
The checkbox says whether

Off, you are invisible to peer search no matter what your calendar says.

02
The calendar says when

Only days you explicitly mark are stored. An unmarked day is unknown, and unknown is never shown as available — so a blank calendar surfaces you on no date at all.

Both have to be on for a given date before anyone can find you on it.

how it works

Three steps, no messaging app

01
Mark your dates

A calendar in your account. Click a day to cycle it: available, busy, clear.

02
Search your city

Pick a date and see local videographers free that day who shoot the same kind of work. You see their reel and their work, not just a name.

03
Ask, and swap contacts on yes

Send a request. If they accept, you each get the other’s email and take it from there. We step out of the way.

the honest part

Nobody has been matched through this yet

Search it today and it may come back empty. That is the real state and the page is not going to pretend otherwise.

Which is the argument for flipping it now rather than later. The person who is already listed when someone in their city needs a hand on Saturday is the person who gets asked. Costs you a checkbox.

Set your dates

Start free, mark the days you can shoot, and start showing up in local searches.

Start free

Already listed? Switch it on and mark a date. Being discoverable, searching, requesting and accepting are free, and we take no cut of whatever you agree to pay each other.