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pud

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About pud

Heavy metal drummer and coder.

Founder of DistroKid, TinyLetter, F*ckedcompany, AdBrite and other stuff.

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    Comment #47506117

    Wish I had this back when I had 100,000 mailing list.

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    Show HN: I made a to-do list web app that nags you via text message

    I previously founded DistroKid. Made Tizzy to help me get stuff done.

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    Comment #37221276

    > “Spotify killed revenue flow for anyone outside of the publishers and big artists/ players. Spotify basically killed any money coming from the physical distribution” To the contr…

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    Comment #36876058

    I use, almost exclusively, the open-source version of ColdFusion (called Lucee). It’s fantastic. And users don’t care what your stack is, a long as it woks. https://www.lucee.org/

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    Comment #36850598

    I think most people don’t know this (I didn’t until recently) but you can upload documents to ChatGPT if you’re a paying member: https://chat.openai.com Choose GPT4 and Code Interp…

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    Comment #35879574

    Last week my company launched an iOS app that gets music into Apple Music and Spotify. Timing unintentional but neato that musicians can now record, distribute & promote all from t…

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    Comment #25630300

    Hope you find my Medium post thought provoking. Incentives in the music industry are setup such that any company offering promotional services to artists (ad agency, PR firm, promo…

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    Comment #15161552

    Aw shucks.

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    Comment #13657843

    Indeed. Rock on inopinatus

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    Comment #13657839

    Fandalism was bootstrapped too (and didn't much affect DistroKid's growth; at least not as much as I would have hoped).

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    Comment #13657431

    Honestly I don't feel that Fandalism (which is also a one-man biz, too, I spose) added that much to DistroKid's growth. It was mostly some press, some blogs, and a good product. Bu…

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    Comment #13657422

    True. Every Fandalism user does get 1 email, from Fandalism, about DistroKid.

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    Comment #13656995

    Yes we provide lots of stats to artists. No, we're not planning on a recommendation system (plenty of online radio thingy thangies that are already great!)

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