Someone took the Big Idea that I was passionate about. Now what?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amie_Street

by Prrometheus • 19 years ago

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pg• 19 years ago

You could probably still do it. These guys aren't so far along that they're unbeatable. Just look for a chink in their armor. What's missing or broken in the way they're doing it?

wschroter• 19 years ago

That's funny - I thought this was my blog post. I covered the same question a week ago -

http://www.gobignetwork.com/wil/2007/5/18/someone-already-thought-of-my-idea-_-now-what/10156/view.aspx

brianmckenzie• 19 years ago

If you built a site similar to this, only didn't use a pop-up music player, I would probably use it.

sharpshoot• 19 years ago

Including demand based pricing?

Prrometheus2• 19 years ago

Demand-based pricing is a totally novel (and interesting) idea that is uniquely Amie St.

Prrometheus2• 19 years ago

There is no good reason to distribute digital media by physical means. Record labels are useless relics of an dying era.

webwright• 19 years ago

Someone already thought of MP3 players before the iPod and search engines before Google. Someone else in the market should be encouraging, not discouraging.

If they are doing it REALLY REALLY well, you have lots of options (which are laid out pretty well on that gobignetwork post).

SwellJoe• 19 years ago

Amie Street isn't perfect. It's a beautiful idea, but it didn't work for me the first couple of times I've visited (I use Linux, so I pretty much expect websites to not work, if they do anything fancy...I just move on). This post caused me to check it out again, and the player does work now. Hooray!

Executing better is still a possibility. Niche-focused versions would also be a possibility. Most of the top ten on the front page suck. I've been a happy subscriber for years with eMusic and it's focused on indie music (I guess Amie also has a focus on indie, since no one else is taking part in this model right now, though the number 1 song at Amie right now is atrocious "soul" pop).

falsestprophet• 19 years ago

Go get them.

NickDouglas• 19 years ago

They're still small, right? Join 'em.

Someone took the Big Idea that I was passionate about. Now what?

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