Show posters that make themselves
Keep booking shows in Google Calendar like you already do. Staplegun turns it into this week’s poster, tonight’s story, the month for the front window and the listings on your website — and redraws them all whenever the calendar changes.
No account, no card. Works with Google, Apple and Outlook calendars — or paste a list of shows.
This is the whole trick. Write shows the way you’d chalk them on the board out front and Staplegun works out who’s headlining, who’s opening, the cover and the age limit.
Your poster prints here.
This is a pretend week. Make a real board and it reads your actual calendar, every ten minutes, forever.
Google, Apple or Outlook — anything that publishes an iCal (.ics) link. No calendar? Paste a list of shows and edit them right in Staplegun.
Five poster styles, a few color sets each. Change your mind in December and every image — past links included — follows along.
Each poster lives at a permanent link that redraws itself when the calendar changes. Save it once in your scheduler, your website and your bio.
Every poster is just a link
staplegun.app/p/the-owl-and-anchor-x7k2/week.png?size=story
Open it Monday and it’s Monday’s poster. Add a late show on Thursday and by Thursday night the same link has the late show.
Long band names shrink to fit. Busy weeks turn into a carousel. Sold-out shows get stamped. Here’s each style with one of our (made‑up) regulars.
All of these come from the same calendar and change when it does. Nobody on your staff has to remember to update the website again.
/week.png
/tonight.png?size=story
/month.svg?size=tabloidwho’s coming to this?
/next.png?size=ogUpcoming shows
Listings by Staplegun
<div data-staplegun="…">Live music & cold beer since 1994
The Owl & Anchor
/b/the-owl-and-anchor-x7k2Seven nights, twenty bands, one calendar. The week poster goes up Monday and the story changes itself every night.
Most used: week · tonight · month
A trio on Tuesday, a wine tasting Wednesday, jazz brunch Sunday. It can tell a tasting from a band and labels each one that way.
Most used: week · month · widget
Where’s the truck this week? Answered every Monday, automatically — with the address under each stop.
Most used: week · tonight
Tour dates by city, reprinted every time the booking agent adds one. Write SOLD OUT on a date and the poster stamps it.
Most used: upcoming · next
A night that moves between rooms, or a basement that books five shows a week. One calendar, one link, every flyer.
Most used: week · next · link-in-bio
Every poster is a plain GET. Every board is a small JSON API with one key. No SDK, no OAuth dance, no webhooks to babysit.
Zapier and Make can fetch an image from a URL on a schedule and hand it to Buffer, Later or Instagram. Point one at week.png?size=story every Monday at 9 and you’ve automated the flyer.
Want listings on your own site instead? The embed widget is two lines of HTML.
curl -o story.png \
"https://staplegun.app/p/the-owl-and-anchor-x7k2/week.png?size=story"curl https://staplegun.app/v1/render \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-o poster.png -d '{
"view": "week", "template": "xerox",
"board": { "name": "Basement 417", "tz": "America/Chicago" },
"events": [{
"title": "Mothwing w/ Rat Choir — $8 — All ages",
"start": "2026-10-05T19:00:00-05:00"
}]
}'{
"title": "Mothwing w/ Rat Choir — $8 — All ages",
"headliner": "Mothwing",
"support": ["Rat Choir"],
"price": "$8",
"age": "All ages",
"category": "music",
"poster": "https://staplegun.app/p/…/event.png?event=…"
}The free plan is the real product, not a trial. Every free graphic carries a small “made with staplegun.app” line — that’s our whole advertising budget, and it’s why free can stay free.
General admission
$0 forever
Reserved seating
$9 a month, per board
or $90 a year — two months on the house
Cancel any time from your editor. The board drops back to free at the end of the paid period; nothing gets deleted. Payments by Stripe.
On a computer, open Google Calendar → the gear → Settings. Under “Settings for my calendars”, pick your calendar and scroll to Integrate calendar.
Copy the Public address in iCal format if the calendar is public, or the Secret address in iCal format if it isn’t. The secret one works fine — just don’t post it anywhere.
Apple (iCloud): in Calendar, right-click the calendar (or tap ⓘ on iPhone) → Share Calendar → tick Public Calendar, then copy the webcal:// link. Paste it as-is.
Outlook: on the web, Settings → Calendar → Shared calendars → Publish a calendar. Choose “Can view all details”, hit Publish, and copy the ICS link.
Anything else that gives you an iCal / .ics link works too.
Yes. Paste your shows as a list, one per line — Fri 10/3 9pm Hollow Pines w/ The Marrow Kings $12 — and keep editing them in Staplegun. You can hook up a calendar later.
We re-read your calendar about every ten minutes. If you can’t wait, hit Refresh in your editor and it’s immediate.
No — we make the images and a ready-to-paste caption, and you (or your scheduler) post them. Buffer, Later and Meta Business Suite all work; schedulers that accept an image URL can grab this week’s poster every Monday without you.
A small “made with staplegun.app” line along the bottom edge of each free graphic. It’s how people find us. Pro removes it.
Events titled like “Private party” or “Closed for buyout” stay off posters unless you turn them on. We only ever read your calendar — never write to it.
Any time, from your editor. The board goes back to free at the end of the period you paid for. Nothing is deleted.
If you added an email to your board, get fresh links here (the old ones stop working). The browser you made the board in remembers it too. Still stuck? hello@staplegun.app.
About two minutes. Bring a calendar link, or just a list of shows.
Make your poster — free