Bailar and Bailar Studio
Live at bailar.site (opens in a new tab)
Our own Latin dance platform. Dancers find tonight’s social on the web, Android and TV. Studio owners run their studio with Bailar Studio, live on the App Store and Google Play for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Android.
- The job
- Put every Latin dance social, class and studio in one place, in the dancer’s language, and give studios the software to run their week.
- For
- Dancers, dance studios and event hosts
- Relationship
- Our own product. Bailar, Inc. is a separate company Paul co-founded, not a client.
- Built with
- React Native, Expo, Next.js 15, Supabase, MapLibre, Stripe Connect, Mac Catalyst
One codebase, every screen.
The dancer app, the web app, the TV app, the studio owner’s app and the back office share one React Native and Next.js codebase. The TV app at tv.bailar.site, shown at the top of this page, puts tonight’s events, studios and lessons on a television.
| What | Who it’s for, and where | Get it |
|---|---|---|
| Dancer app | Dancers on Android phones and tablets | Google Play (opens in a new tab)Galaxy Store (opens in a new tab)Amazon Appstore (opens in a new tab) |
| Dancer app for Windows | Dancers on Windows PCs | Microsoft Store (opens in a new tab) |
| Dancer web app | iPhone or any browser, in 80+ languages | bailar.site (opens in a new tab) |
| TV app | Tonight’s events, studios and lessons on the big screen | tv.bailar.site (opens in a new tab) |
| Bailar Studio | Studio owners on iPhone, iPad and Mac | App Store (opens in a new tab) |
| Bailar Studio for Android | Studio owners on Android | Google Play (opens in a new tab) |
| Backstage | The studio back office on the web: claim a studio, publish the week, students, payments, analytics | studio.getbailar.com (opens in a new tab) |
| Bailar Sites | Done-for-you venue websites that update from the venue’s Bailar calendar | getbailar.com/for-studios/sites (opens in a new tab) |
| Bia | An assistant in English and Spanish inside the apps and Backstage, answering with real event and studio cards | Inside the apps |
| Ritmo | A rhythm game in the dancer app, with beat maps checked by people, and leaderboards | Inside the dancer app |
| MCP server | Lets AI assistants like Claude and ChatGPT search Bailar’s events and studios, read only | bailar.site/api/mcp |
| Map engine for Mac | A Mac Catalyst build of the MapLibre Native map engine, published on GitHub | GitHub (opens in a new tab) |
| Biblioteca | An open Latin dance encyclopedia and move glossary | getbailar.com/biblioteca (opens in a new tab) |
For dancers.
A public calendar, swipe discovery, a map and event pages in 80+ languages. On iPhone, dancers use the web app at bailar.site, which installs from the browser.
For studio owners.
Backstage is the studio back office on the web: claim a studio, publish the week, manage students, take payments and see analytics. Bailar Studio puts the same tools on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Android.
Bailar Sites.
Done-for-you websites for venues and studios that update from the venue’s Bailar calendar, so an event edited in the app shows on the website the same minute.
How it’s built.
- Event data lands in staging tables first, and only checked records are promoted to the live app.
- Builds and tests run on our own machines, and fixes reach installed apps over the air.
- A translation pipeline keeps 80+ languages complete across the app and the website.
- Every code change is reviewed by an AI model from a different vendor before it merges.