Lyric Lab
For singers, bands, and anyone who has to know the words
Learn a song by heart — properly. Loop the part you keep dropping, slow it down until it sticks, then bring it back to tempo.
Starling Labs — apps for people who perform
We build apps for the people on stage — and the ones pouring drinks while it happens.
Two apps, both real, both close. One helps you learn a song by heart before the show. The other keeps a bar running when the place is three deep and the new kid is drowning.
Lyric Lab
Final beta
Liquid Candy
Looking for a venue
Who it's for
Artists & entertainers
Part of
Hous of The Darling Starling
SingersBandsMusical theatreDrag performersBartendersBar ownersCover bandsWorship teamsSession playersKaraoke hostsSingersBandsMusical theatreDrag performersBartendersBar ownersCover bandsWorship teamsSession playersKaraoke hosts
What they actually do
Two problems we got tired of watching.
Performers cramming lyrics the night before. Bartenders inventing a drink because nobody wrote the real one down. Neither needed a whole platform — they needed one thing that works.
Drill the part you keep dropping
Everybody has that one verse. Loop it, run it, run it again — until it's yours and you stop bracing for it.
Slow it down, then bring it back
Take the tempo down until the words land clean. Walk it back up. That's how people have learned music forever.
Ready before you're on
Learning a song is a deadline, not a hobby. Lyric Lab is built for the week before the show.
Specs where the bartender is
The build is on the rail, not in a binder in the office. Mid-shift, hands wet, three deep — still reachable.
New hires who aren't guessing
Night one, they can pour your menu. Nobody has to shadow them through every ticket to find out.
The same drink every time
A regular's usual tastes the same on a dead Tuesday as it did on a packed Saturday, whoever's working.
The two apps
More on both What we're building right now.
Not a portfolio of past clients. These are the two things we're actually in the middle of, and where each one stands today.
Liquid Candy
For bar owners, bar managers, and the people on the rail
Every drink your bar makes, on the rail, in reach. New bartenders pour it right on night one. Everyone pours it the same on night two hundred.
How we work
Built with you, not at you.
Most software for this industry gets made by people who've never had to learn a set list in five days or close out a bar at 2am. That shows. We'd rather it didn't show in ours.
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We're in the room
We're not studying this industry from the outside. We're around the shows, the rehearsals, and the bars these apps are meant for.
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One job, done properly
Lyric Lab learns you a song. Liquid Candy keeps a bar consistent. Neither one tries to also be your calendar, your CRM, and your accountant.
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Tested by people doing the work
Real performers and real bartenders, in real weeks with real shows and real shifts. That's where you find out what's actually broken.
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We stick around after launch
You'll be able to tell us it's annoying and have that mean something. We're small enough that the person fixing it read your message.
Say hi
Run a bar? Play out? We want to hear from you.
If you own a bar, we're looking for venues to run Liquid Candy in. If you perform, Lyric Lab is nearly out and we'd love a few more people beating on it. And if you just want to tell us what would actually help — that works too.