Where this is heading

You can read the car park before a big festival. The number plates: half of Europe, the odd other continent. Those people didn't gather by accident — they come back. Every year, to the same field, to the same people.

That's called a scene. And that's exactly where we're heading.

Not a catalogue. Scenes.

The easy mistake would be trying to map three thousand festivals across ten countries. Work for an army — and finished never.

So we think differently. Ozora isn't a "Hungarian festival": it's the annual gathering of one global scene that meets on that field from half the world away. Scenes like that, each with a flagship festival, number a few dozen worldwide — not thousands. And around a scene you can build something real, because a scene comes back.

What remains when the field empties

A festival guide is a seasonal tool. Open, use, close, see you next year. On its own it doesn't survive — we know, others have died on it.

The value is elsewhere: in the record of what you've lived through and with whom. You were there. And there. And there. Over the years it grows into a map of shared experiences — and that map doesn't empty when the field does.

Where we are today — no gloss

We're at the beginning. The app runs and we use it at real events; for now we set the events up ourselves, and self-service comes when there's someone to serve. We're not promising a big community — so far it's tribes who already know each other.

And there's a gate ahead: at the end of the year we decide whether this is worth pushing further. It may come out as a "no" — and that will be an honest result, not a failure. We'd rather say it like this than promise something we don't have.

A big goal, small truthful steps.

Better small and true than big and made up.