How to List Your Mic

Before you start

You'll want these handy:

• Venue name and street address.
• Day(s) of the week and the start time.
• How comics sign up, whether that is a bucket draw, online, or at the door.
• Cover charge or drink minimum, if any.
• Set length in minutes.
• Your mic's social links, if you have them.

Step by step

1. Create a MicLister account

   Head to michunts.app and choose MicLister.

2. Check whether your mic is already listed

   Search your venue first. MicHunts already includes a lot of open mics. If yours is there, open it and use Claim this mic rather than creating a duplicate.

3. Name your mic, then list the venue

   Hopefully you have a cool open mic name, toss it in there. Next, give the name of the venue your show is at.

   

4. Pick a category

   This is what comics filter by. If your room takes all comers like musicians, poets or sword-juggling fire-eaters, Anything Goes is a real answer. (But usually, Stand-Up is the most popular.)

   

5. Write the description

   Which door, where to park, how hard the room is. The things no other field covers.

6. Add the venue's address

   This places your pin. Exact address is the way to go. The address field will usually give suggestions, even if you write the venue name in it.

   

7. Tick every day it runs

   Monday, Tuesday and Thursday? Tick all three on one listing. One listing, one slot, however many days.

   Same time, same cost, same set length, but it runs on three days? That is still one listing, and it will show up in the searches for all three days.

   

8. Set how it repeats

   Every Week covers most rooms. For anything else, choose Custom Schedule:

   • Interval-based ON for every other week. Say how many weeks apart.
   • Interval-based OFF for 1st and 3rd Tuesday. Tick First and Third.

   Use Skip These Dates for holidays, vacations, or a week you have to cancel. Your listing won't show up on the calendar for that date.

   

9. Set the times

   Show Start Time is when comedy starts, not when doors open.

   Check-in Time is when you would like comedians to show up. If that is the same as sign-up, put the same time.

   Sign-up Timing is when your list opens: Day of, a Specific Date, or 1 week, 2 weeks or 1 month in advance. Comics get this wrong most often, so it is worth setting.

   

   

10. Enter the set length

    A number only. 5, not "5 min".

11. Choose how comics sign up

    Pick a Method and the matching box appears on its own. Online Signup gives you a URL, Email an address, Call/Text a number.

    Bucket Draw, Show Up Go Up and Sign Up at Door need nothing extra.

    

12. Add the cost

    Price is a number only. Blank or 0 reads as Free.

    Flag a drink minimum if there is one.

    

13. Decide about spot requests

    Turn on Request Your Spot and comics can ask from your listing. You approve or decline in My Listings. Nothing books itself.

    Leave it off if you already run a list somewhere else.

    

14. Add host, website and socials

    All optional. They show as tappable icons, and blank ones simply don't appear.

    

15. Submit

    It goes live immediately. No review queue, no waiting.

    

16. Share the link

    Every listing has its own link. Drop it on your site, a social page, a group chat, your story, wherever you already post about the open mic.

    Comics get your current details instead of an old flyer, and when you change a time, everyone holding the link sees the new one.

Keeping your listing accurate

Comics plan their week around this. If your time moves, your cover changes, or you go on hiatus, update the listing. It takes seconds and it is the difference between a room full of comics and a room full of nobody.

Going dark for a while? Deactivate the listing instead of deleting it. Deactivating hides it from comics but keeps everything intact, so you can switch it back on whenever you return.

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