Stripboard.
A constraint-aware schedule solver for indie producers. Cast holds, location days, union turnarounds — solve a 21-day shoot in an afternoon.
The Movie Magic alternative without the $500 license or the consultant.
A real-time scheduling app for indie 1st ADs and production coordinators, built on a constraint solver with cast-hold logic and simulated annealing. The 1st AD and the coordinator work off the same board, in the same browser, in real time.
Movie Magic should have been replaced ten years ago. The software costs $500, runs on Windows, has a learning curve measured in weeks, and the consultant who teaches it costs more than the license. Indie productions can't justify any of it. So indie productions ship without proper stripboards, or with spreadsheets that pretend to be stripboards.
Stripboard fixes that. Same constraint logic. Cleaner solver. Real-time collaboration. Browser-based. Priced for indie.
- Constraint solver
- Cast holds, location days, weather windows, union turnarounds, child-actor hours, stunt-day spacing — solve all at once.
- Simulated annealing
- Optimizes the schedule against your constraints. Re-solves in seconds when something breaks.
- Real-time collab
- 1st AD and coordinator work off the same board. Presence. Locked-strip indicators.
- Strip vocabulary
- Standard color codes. Day-night-INT-EXT conventions. Production-ready PDFs.
- .jmpr export
- Schedule round-trips into the open .jmpr container. Travels with the project.
Solver shipped. UI in build. Closed beta planned.
Get a heads-up when Stripboard opens.
One email when the closed beta opens. No drip, no upsell.