Clapit

The App Store says there are 15 reviews. This is definitely not true, and they are definitely not weighted the way it appears. Read on: First: Clap Online has been sued twice under the Fair Labor Standard act (including this year). (Just search for Clap Online Inc) on Justia. For a company that claims to make auditioning easier for everyone, that’s a little concerning. Second: you’ll do better with more cash. You can pay for more exposure. Again, not a level playing field. Third: there appears (for my own sake, let’s say alleged, maybe, etc), to be an entire element of patent trolling in their business model. In other words, let’s file patents with the intent of getting much more established companies to pay us for it. Fourth: crowdsourcing is cool, but for auditions? As someone with no dog in this fight, but who is related to filmmakers, this is ludicrous. Individual directors have nuanced thoughts about characters, and “clapping” auditions to exposure makes little sense. Plus, you know, you can just get your friends to vote you up. Is this about talent or popularity? Fifth: there is nothing cutting edge about this. It’s been done dozens of times. The CEO seems sketchy. Finally: in 2017, ClapIt held an audition for its own purposes. Guess what they paid you with? Exposure. You were supposed to be grateful for the trip to the shoot... and I guess buy groceries with exposure? No. This is exactly what creative communities are fighting.

Okay, I signed up (with Facebook), but it won’t let me log in. I entered my login and it made me do it again, and then it just buffered.