The Feel Good Initiative. Discover new music daily.

by andr • 18 years ago

27 35 18 years ago

andr10• 18 years ago

The result of about 20 days of exploratory programming. We didn't really know where we were going in the beginning. Things to check out: tagging (I like this song), posting your own music, the podcast (my favorite), other tidbits.

Note: I submitted The Feel Good back in February but it was a totally different site, so this is not a dupe.

jsjenkins168• 18 years ago

Making your logo a bit prominent will make your brand more easily identifiable. As it is right now, I searched the page but couldn't really determine what was the logo.

zabravih• 18 years ago

I actually like the way you've done the logo - meshing it with the slogan and all. You've given it a very upstream look - the logo, like the site itself, is laid out quite unconventionally. Now, I hope this was on purpose, yes? ;D

sant0sk1• 18 years ago

I love the "instant on" feel of this app. Just press play. Very cool.

The fact that you don't instantly force a registration page on a potential user will help attract the BugMeNot types who would otherwise move on.

andr10• 18 years ago

Yes, that was one of our key goals. You can even tag music and organize playlists without registering. You only need to register if you want to post music or save your favorites/tags (they are stored in cookies for guests).

chrisbroadfoot2• 18 years ago

Reminds me of Pandora.

I don't like the fact that the music stops when I click to go into comments

Sorry... however, I do like it, and everything seems nicely executed

andr10• 18 years ago

That's high on the todo list. Look for it today or tomorrow.

chrisbroadfoot2• 18 years ago

Awesome. Well, it's bookmarked. I'll visit again in a month or so

Prrometheus3• 18 years ago

I love these guys. They think of everything and they make a great product. I loved the original feel good, and I love the new one too. Congrats on the [re]launch!

blinks2• 18 years ago

Finally, a You Tube for audio. I've been waiting for something like this for some time -- sites like http://virb.com/ are nice, but revolve around the album, which isn't usually how an indie artist really writes.

Now I can put things up as I work on them, which'll be cool.

-- http://thefeelgood.com/blinks

hhm• 18 years ago

Yes, a YouTube for audio. I was waiting for it for ages... why didn't anybody did it before? I think this idea & implementation has magic; in other words, it's a winner.

Prrometheus3• 18 years ago

Can I play a continuous stream of music from just the channels I follow, preferably with forward/back/pause options?

andr10• 18 years ago

Yes, in your Podcast page. Currently it goes 3 days back, but we are thinking about expanding that or turning it into a river.

marrone• 18 years ago

nice, I love last.fm for this exact reason. I use that site the way you guys are promoting this one. Skip a song or say you like it and eventually it learns what to recommend. I will keep my eye on this one

mynameishere• 18 years ago

Nice, easy-to-use website, but what awful music. I'll stick to the classics, thanks:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_Tf2lQvDz0

andr10• 18 years ago

lol, well that's the idea. post the music you like

spydez• 18 years ago

Blocked by my IT department already...

Ya'll may be on to something. ;)

wave• 18 years ago

Suggestion: On your sign up page, I think you should make it simple by just asking username and password. Since you are just launching, your sign up page should be very simple. See http://anywhere.fm

Prrometheus3• 18 years ago

It’s hard to figure out how to follow a channel vs. how to favorite a song. I notice that if I favorite a song I start to follow the channel automatically.

Also, I’ve mentioned it before, but I would like affiliate links. I’d like to buy music from some of the new artists I’ve found through the site, but I am too lazy to look them up on Amazon/ iTunes

andr10• 18 years ago

Affiliate links are now live on the comments page. 6 minutes turnaround :)

The philosophy of following vs favorites is that we automatically pick the channels you follow based on which ones you like the most songs from. It will work for the majority of the users. More "likes" = stronger relationship. However, the podcast is only limited to 20 songs per day for the channels with the strongest relationship, so only the minority of power users that have more than 20 songs a day will need to explicitly follow a channel or another to keep it in the podcast. But you are right, we need to communicate this better.

blinks2• 18 years ago

Could you add iTunes links? I've got music in iTunes, but not on Amazon. (CDBaby only does the former.)

as• 18 years ago

What are the copyright issues you're dealing with?

scorxn2• 18 years ago

How about an embeddable mini-player? The src could be per-song, per-channel, or just "Featured Music."

I bet a lot of people (myself included) would love this for their blogs. Then it becomes a functional ad for your site.

andr10• 18 years ago

We are actually working on this feature right now :)

scorxn2• 18 years ago

Another idea: A narrow, vertical interface for loading in Firefox's sidebar. Makes it easier to keep the player open while you browse elsewhere.

maximilian• 18 years ago

How does this site not violate copyright law? I love the idea, but as it is, I feel like a nasty letter from the RIAA is being carried by a postman still wet from the tongue of some RIAA lawyer.

Anyway, don't let that set you back. It seems great.

kingnothing• 18 years ago

Where is all of the music from?

andr10• 18 years ago

other users

sfg• 18 years ago

Liked it straight away. Long time last.fm user and yet have never used their site to listen to music in the way I used this. Do you host the music shared via the share good music feature? What on earth is going on copyright wise?

rob• 18 years ago

What language did you make it in?

andr10• 18 years ago

my homegrown PHP framework

pchristensen• 18 years ago

Well now I have a counterexample for when people say PHP sucks :). I think your site looks and works great and it just goes to show that great hackers can always do great things.

hernan7• 18 years ago

A volume control and/or some type of compression/limiting would be useful.

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