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sure why not! whatever you think is best! I'm just here for the vibes <3

Thanks everyone for checking out Moltbook! Very cool to see all of the activity around it <3

I'd definitely be willing to pay to get other people's thoughts.

This is not accurate at all, I've been to Coinbase HQ in SF, it's way larger than a mailbox.

Let me know if you have other thoughts or disagree!

I totally agree with you - I don't think it's specifically emoticons that are the future. Snapchat is definitely a perfect example of the direction we are going in (picture + text).

Muahaha

The best use for this is if you wanted to have content, other than your usual content, that is exclusive to fans that specifically subscribe to you on YouTube.

Direct link to the app: http://boost.hipset.com

This isn't something you should do for every video. That would definitely stunt your growth.

Boost is something you should use once and a while with the specific purpose of converting your existing fans on other social networks to subscribers on YouTube.

Our goal is to discover artists, grow their audience, and help them generate real revenue online.

We've already found quite a bit of incredibly talented artists. Check out this recent submission from an artist in San Francisco: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7jcfFrpvMA

FAQ is a great idea.

We're working on an updated design that includes record label logos, it looks MUCH better.

You are correct on the business model.

Green M&Ms, Yellow M&Ms, as long as they are making great content, whatever they want ;)

Thanks for the feedback - we're looking into how we can make more of a "killer offer". We've received quite a bit of feedback that videos would be very desirable.

This is exactly right.

Yes, absolutely, you will receive specific feedback from us about the production, vocals (if there are any), and presentation.

Thank you for trying our new service out!

Noted.

Super helpful! (powrtoch, add me on Facebook, I'd love to chat more > http://facebook.com/mattfs)

Here's what we're thinking:

- If your music isn't good enough to go viral yet then we can provide you with feedback on how to improve and reach that point.

- If your music IS good enough to go viral the we want to promote you, get you press, get you featured on YouTube, Ustream, etc (these are all things we can do very easily if your music is good - we already have these relationships).

- If you are really taking off we can help you monetize this growth in very interesting and artist/fan friendly ways. When you reach this stage we will enter into a production style agreement and take a % of the revenue we generate you. This is where we make our money and NOT on the original $20.

Concerns:

- If we don't charge we will be bombarded, like you pointed out, with low quality content. This is a problem we want to avoid.

- If we don't charge then we will be paying artists to review your content out of our own pocket.

Question: What would this site have to say so that when you saw it, as a musician, your reaction was "Holy shit I have to do this and would be stupid not to"?

This helps, thanks for the feedback. We'll work on being more transparent to add to our creditability.

Ah, looks like Optimizely had an error. Fixing this.

Here's the link: http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2012/08/19/hipset-is-...

If the production, vocals, and presentation (good branding, etc) are at a level where most people who like that genre would play the song and think "Yeah, this sounds like a real song..." then we will work hard to make sure those people hear the song.

Our artists are good at reviewing rap, pop, edm, country, rock, etc. All genres.

Currently we can help the most with promoting rap, hip-hop, pop, and edm. We can help all genres find labels (we know a lot of them).

Please post your feedback!

Our goal is to discover talented artists and then help them grow an audience and monetize it online.

The $20 is for the feedback. If the song is good we promote you but there is no additional cost to you as the artist.

That + Helping artist's content go viral as well (most artists don't understand viral Facebook integrations - so with Hipset we're automatically doing it for all of them)

I hear you! We've heard this from others as well. We will definitely be adding more ways to login than just Facebook.

This is just the beginning and it will get better. There is SO much still to do.

For now, to discover new music you can go to a couple sections of Hipset:

1) New Videos from artists all around the world http://hipset.com/all/videos/

2) New Videos from artists you follow http://hipset.com/following/videos/

3) New Videos from artists in different genres Hip Hop: http://hipset.com/genre:hiphop/videos/ Rock: http://hipset.com/genre:rock/videos/ Indie: http://hipset.com/genre:indie/videos/ Electronic: http://hipset.com/genre:electronic/videos/ Country: http://hipset.com/genre:country/videos/ Pop: http://hipset.com/genre:pop/videos/

BTW: For those wondering, we have not yet turned on the Facebook Open Graph Actions. It will not auto share with your friends when you look at content right now (and when we do turn that on you will have the ability to easily turn it off).

Link to Hipset: http://hipset.com

I went to Waldorf for 10 years (preschool - 8th grade).

Didn't get a computer until I was 12.

Now > http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2011/10/19/how-two-te...

Holy shit - what's up. Go friend me on Facebook http://facebook.com/Mattfs

I'm Matt Schlicht, one of the guys in the story. We would love to chat with any music/entertainment focused companies OR digital managers + any start up founders. Email matt@tracksby.com to get in touch.

To everyone else - thanks for the support! (love the Madmen reference)