Reddit for Music: How We Got 1,000 Users In A Weekend

http://blog.upbeatapp.com/post/63063210458/upbeat-reddit-for-music

by dinnison • 13 years ago

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dinnison6• 13 years ago

We'll be here all day so please leave any feedback comments. Thanks for checking it out!

zackhall• 13 years ago

Very cool site -- I've long thought about setting something like this up as a side project that'd be fun to build!

dinnison6• 13 years ago

Thanks, appreciate it! It's been awesome to see it come together and have people use it. Let us know if you have any feedback.

jamesgagan• 13 years ago

Looks like a nice app, but this statement is far from true: "There is no channel for music discovery outside of what the majors pay to put in front of you." A new music discovery site gets posted to HN at least once a week, many of them built off the soundcloud api. As well, you are only one of many apps that has tried the voting up/down for songs route - thesixtyone.com was one of the first but they have since moved away from that. Anyway - keep up the good work, just don't fool yourselves that this is anything new.

dinnison6• 13 years ago

Appreciate the feedback, I agree that statement could use some tweaking. We also realize we're not the first site to do voting on songs, but we feel that we've created a simple/fast/effective way to build charts via Soundcloud (eventually other sources) which we haven't seen done. Let us know if you have any feedback if you sign up, would love your input.

sashagim• 13 years ago

That looks cool! I'm having a hard time finding a good way to discover good music. Currently my favorite, although not optimal - is to go over grooveshark playlists published on /r/groovesharkplaylists.

Some concern about this approach is that I think consuming music in such way wouldn't be much fun - unlike hn, on a music site a 'play all' would make more sense than playing one by one, but here's the catch(es): 1. No way to listen just to the new (to me, sort of 'unread') good music 2. Playing from top to bottom would mean the songs get progressively less good.

I would add a 'best songs' list - all the song above let's say 20 points. This is something I could automatically play on shuffle, occasionally getting new entries from the recent days.

anyway, best of luck! I'll give it a try!

dinnison6• 13 years ago

Thats some great feedback, thanks. We're building a 'Top' page which will list the top voted songs of all time which should take care of one of your points.

If you have any more ideas, shoot 'em our way and we'd be happy to discuss.

dinnison6• 13 years ago

Also, forgot to mention we do have a New page already. Just click the 'Hot' dropdown at the top of the list and you should see 'New' which will display newly submitted songs.

mcnabj• 13 years ago

Any chance you will also link back to Soundcloud? If it's part of your monetization strategy to only link to amazon purchases I get it but what's to stop Soundcloud from turning off the spigot and taking your idea?

dinnison6• 13 years ago

We actually do link back to soundcloud. Albeit small, there's a grey soundcloud icon in the middle pane under the song name where it says who submitted it.

Reddit for Music: How We Got 1,000 Users In A Weekend

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