🗽 Now piloting in Brooklyn & Queens

Book party vendors who are actually free.

Tell us the date, the time and your neighborhood. Sparkler shows you photographers, caterers and DJs who are genuinely available then — at a real price, not a "contact us for a quote".

Free to use No signup to search Real prices up front

Planning a party is fifteen phone calls

And eleven of them end with "sorry, I'm booked that day."

😮‍💨 Today

  • Search, scroll, open twelve tabs.
  • Message each one. Wait a day. Or three.
  • Half never reply. Half aren't free.
  • Prices arrive as "depends — let's talk".
  • Repeat for the photographer, the food, the music.

✨ With Sparkler

  • One screen: date, time, neighborhood.
  • Only vendors who are free at that hour.
  • Only vendors who'll travel to you.
  • Real prices, totalled as you pick.
  • Send every request at once. Done in minutes.

Three steps

No account needed until you actually book something.

1

Describe the party

Birthday on Thursday at 6 PM in Astoria, 25 guests, need a photographer, food and a DJ. That's the whole form.

2

See who's free

We filter by real availability for that exact window, distance from you, and your budget. Travel and setup time included — so a "yes" is a real yes.

3

Request in one tap

Pick one per category, see the total, send. Vendors confirm by text and you watch the answers land.

Everything a party needs

📸 Photo🎥 Video 🍽️ Catering🎂 Cake 🎧 DJ🎈 Balloons 🎩 Magician🤹 Entertainer 🎨 Face paint🏰 Bounce house 💐 Decor📍 Venue
The hard part

Availability that isn't a guess

Every directory says a vendor is "available". Almost none of them actually know. We solve this by never asking a vendor to maintain a calendar.

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We text them

A plain text message to the business number they already use. They reply in normal English — "booked from 6, free before" — and our assistant turns that into structured availability.

⏱️

Travel & setup counted

A DJ playing at 6 leaves home at 4:30. We block setup and teardown time too, so you never get handed a vendor who can't physically make it.

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Freshness on the label

Availability confirmed two months ago is a guess, and we say so. Anything stale is flagged and re-checked before you're allowed to rely on it.

🧑‍🍳 For vendors

Get booked without learning anything new

No app. No dashboard. No profile to keep updated. If you can answer a text message, you can be on Sparkler.

💬 Sparkler Text message
Hi Maya 👋 Sparkler here. A birthday party is looking for a photographer this Saturday evening in Park Slope. Are you open? Reply STOP to opt out.9:41 AM
Saturday evening I'm booked from 6. Anything earlier works9:44 AM
Got it — Saturday open until 6:00 PM. Still $325/hr, 2 hour minimum?9:44 AM
Yes. And from Sept 1 I'm going up to $3759:46 AM
Logged ✅ You'll get a text the moment someone wants to book you.9:46 AM

What you get

  • Customers who already know your price and already know you're free. No tire-kickers.
  • Nothing to maintain. We check in by text. You answer when you feel like it.
  • No fee until you're booked. Free to list during the pilot.
  • Say no in one word. Reply BUSY and we stop offering that slot.

Brooklyn & Queens first. We text you only about real jobs — never marketing. Tell us your category after you sign up.

Questions

What does it cost me as a customer?
Nothing. Searching and requesting is free. You pay the vendor for the work, the same as you would today.
How do you know a vendor is really available?
We ask them, by text, and keep asking. Every availability record carries a timestamp, and anything that has gone stale gets flagged and re-checked rather than shown to you as fact.
Is a request the same as a confirmed booking?
No. You send a request, the vendor confirms, and only then is the slot locked. If they decline, we immediately show you who else is free at that exact time.
Which areas do you cover?
Brooklyn and Queens for the pilot — Park Slope, Astoria, Williamsburg, Bushwick, Sunset Park, Forest Hills and the neighborhoods around them. Manhattan and the Bronx come next. Sign up and we'll tell you when we reach you.
I'm a vendor — do I have to install anything?
No. Everything happens over normal text messages to the number you already run your business on. If you'd rather connect a Google Calendar or use a web screen, both work too — but text is the default.
Will you spam me?
No. One email when the pilot opens in your area. Vendors get texts only about real jobs, and STOP works instantly and permanently.

Be first when Sparkler opens

We're onboarding the first vendors in Brooklyn and Queens now. Early access goes out in order of signup.

Planning a party? Use the box above. Running a business? Join as a vendor instead.

Heads up: Sparkler is a pilot in progress, not a finished product. The screens above show how it works; the vendor network in Brooklyn and Queens is being built right now. We'd rather tell you that than pretend otherwise.