Our Story

Built in Public.
From a Single Conversation.

10pTickets didn't start with a boardroom, a business plan, or a funding round. It started with an idea, a conversation, and a question: what if prize competitions actually meant something to the people entering them?

The Problem We Kept Seeing

Prize competitions in the UK have a problem. You enter, you don't win, and the prize goes to someone three hundred miles away — for something you could have bought on Amazon. There's no connection. No community. No reason for it to feel local.

Meanwhile, local businesses are quietly struggling to reach new customers. They don't have advertising budgets. They don't have marketing teams. What they have is a great product, a loyal local base, and no platform designed for them.

The Idea

What if you connected those two things? Local businesses with real prizes to offer. Local people who actually want those prizes. A platform that moves through communities one area at a time — getting it right before moving on, not planting a flag and leaving people to figure it out.

Tickets at 10p each. Draws verified and broadcast live. Winners you might actually know. Businesses that get real exposure, real footfall, real customers — not just clicks.

“We're not trying to be the biggest prize platform in the UK. We're trying to be the most meaningful one — one community at a time.”

— Syhr, Founder, 10P Tickets Ltd

How We Grow

We move into one council area. We find local businesses willing to list real prizes. We run competitions, build community, create winners. Then the businesses push their own customers to the platform — because it works for them. The local winners tell their friends. Word of mouth does the rest.

When it's working properly, we move to the next area. Not before. We're starting in Maidstone. We're coming everywhere.

The Timeline

3 June 2026 · 11:21am
The idea
The first message. The concept is put into words for the first time. One conversation. No code. No company. Just a question about whether this could work.
June 2026
Building starts
The platform is built from scratch — Next.js, Supabase, Railway. Admin dashboard, competition engine, ticket system, payment integration. All of it, in weeks.
July 2026
Maidstone launch
10pTickets goes live. First competitions. First local business partners. First draws. First local winners.
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Time Since the First Message

3 June 2026 at 11:21am — when 10pTickets was nothing but an idea in a chat window

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Company
10P Tickets Ltd
Company Number
17273465
Registered
England & Wales
Headquarters
Maidstone, Kent
Launch market
Maidstone
Model
Hyperlocal, one area at a time

Want to be part of this?

Whether you're a local entering competitions, a business wanting to reach new customers, or somewhere outside Maidstone waiting for us to arrive — there's a place for you.

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