I’m Ivan van der Schuit. 99Eyes handles its catalogue, rights splits, statements and A&R in tools I built. Through Tricion I build the same kind of system for other labels and creator businesses, at a fixed price agreed before work starts.
Label operations for 99Eyes Entertainment
Catalogue and release readiness, rights splits, the demo pipeline, creator campaign spend and monthly statements, all from the same records instead of a parallel spreadsheet.
99Eyes, a Black 17 Media sublabel, runs on it every day. Figures in these screenshots are replaced.
How it works
For the A&R team at Black 17 Media
Finds self-released tracks that are gaining listeners, checks who controls the release and who administers the publishing, then follows the deal from first contact to signature. The same records show as a table or a kanban board.
Website and CMS for a label in The Orchard’s network
The site behaves like a desktop: draggable windows, a working taskbar, folders for music, press and submissions. The team updates it through a CMS without needing a developer. I built it during my internship there.
black17media.com (opens in a new tab)
Control plane for a fleet of Android phones
Postgres schedules the work and hands out leases. Agents on each machine claim jobs and drive the phones over ADB, and anything held past its lease goes back in the queue. Posting limits per account and a kill switch sit on top.
I also contributed to edits.gg (opens in a new tab), a marketplace that pays short-form editors per verified view.
All projectsI run 99Eyes Entertainment and work in operations and A&R at Black 17 Media. Catalogue management, rights checks, statements and creator campaigns are part of my own working week, so I know where the spreadsheets break.
A project starts with me mapping the process alongside the people who do it. We agree in writing what gets built, I build it, and I hand over the code, the accounts and the documentation.