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gshahlot

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About gshahlot

Product @ Myntra. Built Musicfellas (now acquired by Times Internet). Internet addict. Wanderer.

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    Comment #9472712

    Folks in the bay area - we are looking for leadership roles AVP+ in engineering and product. You must be willing to relocate to Bangalore.

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    Comment #9471410

    Myntra.com - Bangalore, India - Full Time - Multiple Positions We are hiring across the board. Architects, AVP/VP/SVP EMs, Engineers, Product Managers, UX Designers - interested in…

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    Comment #9306263

    Myntra.com - Bangalore/Delhi India - Full Time - Multiple Positions We are hiring across the board. Engineers, Product Managers, UX Designers, Architects/EMs - interested in workin…

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    Comment #9130586

    Myntra.com - Bangalore/Delhi India - Full Time - Multiple Positions We are hiring across the board. Engineers, Product Managers, UX Designers, Architects/EMs - interested in workin…

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    Comment #8983456

    Myntra.com - Bangalore/Delhi India - Full Time - Multiple Positions We are hiring across the board. Engineers, Product Managers, UX Designers, Architects/EMs - interested in workin…

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    Comment #8683120

    Myntra.com - Bangalore, India - Full Time - Multiple Positions We are hiring across the board. Engineers, Product Managers, UX Designers, Engineering Managers - interested in worki…

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    Comment #8103040

    200m USD was in the FY 12-13. They hit $1B GMV around 4 months back.

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    Comment #7508782

    Myntra.com is looking for data scientist(s). Shoot me an email if you'd be interested :)

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    Comment #6307762

    Thanks! Currently they are paid only for music purchases since we don't make any money off streaming. Eventually if and when we make money off streaming, artists would definitely b…

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    Comment #6306172

    Yes, 99 c/wk for : 1. ad-free listening 2. iPhone app (to start with) 3. weekly curated playlists 4. higher quality streaming API not right now, but maybe later.

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    Comment #6304180

    We do have manual curation in place. We are not very strict with the filtering but we ensure nothing bad comes in. After the great, good and average comes in, we let the algorithms…

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    Comment #6304156

    Your slider is definitely cool :) We did take the design inspiration for that from you. I'd love to have a chat with you guys. Feel free to write to us. Cheers!

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    Comment #6304037

    We do have a html5 fallback, I'll get that looked into. Edit: Are you on firefox by any chance? Apparently mp3 is not supported there. If not, which browser are you using?

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    Comment #6303252

    That's how we had started initially. Both the tabs were below the player, however for most people browsing on laptops, they could hardly see a song or two in the queue. So we moved…

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    Comment #6303138

    You sir, have made our day!

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    Comment #6303019

    Wow, thanks :)

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    Comment #6302272

    it's much cleaner than Spotify or Rdio I can't tell you how happy that makes us :) 1,2. Fair enough. 3. That is definitely on our to-do list. Should be out soon. Downloads by defau…

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    Comment #6302200

    Nice catch, noted.

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    Comment #6302123

    We have only chosen not to work with non-indie labels. We are all about independent music only. We've approached and been approached by indie labels too, however most of them deman…

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    Comment #6293018

    Thanks! Cross domain json calls would certainly work but our APIs are not public ready yet and not all would work as expected.

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    Comment #6289570

    Glad you like it. Bandcamp is certainly a competitor at this point however we'll have to see how we evolve, more as a buying platform or discovery platform. As to the advantages ov…

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    Comment #6289328

    Hello HN, we are Musicfellas, an independent music discovery platform. In one line, we are spotify + iTunes for independent music. You can not only discover new music everyday but …