Inside Mic2Money: How Cobweb Games and Appsters Built a Fan-Voted Artist Platform?
United States, 26th Aug 2026 – Mic2Money, a fan-voted live music competition platform for independent artists, has detailed the technology and production partnership behind its build, confirming a two-studio collaboration between Cobweb Games and Appsters that powers the artist platform now available on the App Store.
The platform lets singers, rappers, and performers enter an online singing competition, upload a performance, and have the outcome decided by fan voting rather than an audition panel or a label. Every solo artist who joins competes in a singing contest on the same public leaderboard, with rankings determined entirely by verified listener votes. There are no paid shortcuts to the top and no industry connections required to enter.
Mic2Money’s build was split between two specialized firms rather than handled by a single generalist studio. Cobweb Games, a USA-based game development and art studio, built the platform’s live leaderboard and real-time ranking systems, applying production discipline more commonly used in competitive game development. Appsters, a mobile app development company with thousands of shipped apps across fintech, healthcare, and entertainment, engineered the underlying platform, including account verification and the fan voting infrastructure used to certify contest results.
In its own case study on the project, Appsters describes Mic2Money as built for artists who no longer want to wait for permission, adding that fans on the platform directly influence outcomes rather than only listening. According to the companies involved, that description reflects the core engineering priority behind the artist platform: every technical decision, from the verified voting system to the anti-manipulation checks running behind each music competition, was made to ensure results reflect genuine listener support.
Every vote on the platform is tied to a verified account, and leaderboards update in real time rather than being tallied after a contest closes. According to the development team, there is no mechanism allowing an artist to purchase votes or a fan to buy a ranking boost for a competitor they support. That verification layer forms the core architecture behind every online singing competition run on the platform.
Mic2Money has been built to support a global user base, with certain features, including payouts, currently limited to specific markets as the artist platform continues to expand its footprint. Rewards for each singing contest are tied to that contest’s published terms and a participant’s eligibility, and are not guaranteed in advance of an artist entering.
Mic2Money’s marketing has centered on educational content explaining how a singing contest, its voting process, and its rewards structure work, alongside ongoing sign-ups for the artist platform. The company has stated that this approach reflects wariness among independent artist communities toward platforms that have historically overstated exposure or obscured how competition outcomes are determined.
The platform’s rollout has been coordinated alongside Cobweb Games and Appsters, drawing on both firms’ production and engineering experience on prior projects. Both companies continue to support the artist platform’s infrastructure as usage grows, with updates to the voting engine and leaderboard systems treated as an ongoing engineering commitment rather than a one-time build.
Mic2Money is now live and available for download on the App Store, with contests open to artists and fans on an ongoing basis. Company representatives say the build priority throughout development was ensuring the platform’s verification and voting systems function correctly ahead of onboarding a wider base of solo artist and fan users, a standard the platform continues to hold as it grows.
For more information, including sign-up for artists and fans, visit mic2money.com
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