I missed a battle happening next door. I ended up building beatbox·world.

I started beatboxing again in spring 2025, after a five-year break. I wanted one thing: to compete. And I spent weeks finding nothing.

Not because there was nothing — there are battles all over France. But the information lives in a story you have to open on the right day, in a group you have to be invited to, in a conversation you have to have had. I found out a battle had been held right next to my place by listening to a friend tell me about it. Afterwards.

That frustration is the whole origin of beatbox·world.

Before that, there was a team

In 2016 I met PACMax🇫🇷. We became friends much faster than expected, and that’s where things got serious. The year after, we formed our tag team, MNM'S🇫🇷, and entered the French championship run by Beatbox France🇫🇷. We got through the elims. We finished top 4.

That top 4 opened more doors than anything else — contacts, invitations, people who know who you are. In 2018 we made the semis again as a tag team, and I entered solo for the first time: top 16. I was so happy.

Then 2019. I quit properly: I needed a career and financial stability. Beatbox went on pause. Five years.

Coming back, and hitting the wall

When I finally had time again, I just wanted to beatbox. To compete. Except finding an event is pure luck every time: word of mouth, a story you happen to see, a friend who thinks of you. And bit by bit, one question started nagging at me.

Why isn’t there just an app I open that tells me, right there, that there’s a battle near me?

In the meantime I’d become a developer. So the question didn’t stop at wishful thinking — I could see how to make it real. The idea stuck around, and at every event I went to, it grew.

Opening the box

For an app like that to tell the truth, the organizers have to be the ones putting their event in it. Nobody else knows the date, the venue and the categories before everyone else does.

But if the event is already in the app… why wouldn’t I send my wildcard straight through it? And if the wildcards are there, why wouldn’t the judges score there too? And if the judges score in the app, then the results, the brackets, the videos, the rankings — all of it archives itself, with nobody re-entering anything.

Every answer opened the next one. And at the end of the chain it wasn’t an event directory any more: it was the memory of the scene, writing itself.

Except a thing like that can’t work halfway.

A platform like this is worthless with half the scene on it. So it can’t be a favour we ask for. Everyone has to gain something at their own step — and then contributing becomes natural. Nobody is “filling in a database”: everyone does their thing, and the archive comes out the other end.

Then I told Pascal

Pascal Jardé — L1V3 — got it so fast that he said the thing I hadn’t dared to: this can’t stay an evening project. We started the company. Not to “do a startup”, but so the vision would have what it takes to actually exist, and to last.

An archive you can trust

Beatbox history is real history — titles, rivalries, careers. The problem was never that it isn’t documented: it is, in a lot of places. It simply isn’t structured. Nothing ties a result to its event, an event to its organizer, a beatboxer to what they actually did.

So here, everything is tied to an event and confirmed by the organizer who ran it. Anyone can flag an error; nobody can quietly rewrite a bracket. And the Elo is replayed battle by battle from the archive itself — every rating traces back to a match you can open.

It’s also why the links in this article go somewhere. Every name, every event, every category mentioned above is a page in the archive — not an illustration.

And now

Since then I’ve been back in battles: the Tolosa Beatbox Show2025🇫🇷, the Esperanza Beatbox Battle2026🇫🇷, the Bus Stop Battle2026🇫🇷. The app doesn’t exist yet — and it’s at every event that it becomes obvious all over again: information that only travels by word of mouth, entries handled with whatever’s at hand, results that go nowhere. Every battle has made me want to finish this thing a little more.

This app has to exist. The community needs it — and it will only truly exist if we build it together. If you organize, if you judge, if you compete, if you know a scene or a year the archive is missing: come talk to us.