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As a potential customer and business partner, I would leave the site for good if I had not seen your post here on HN.
For me to engage with a service, I need to know who is behind it. See their face. Their Twitter account, their Github.
I would not put my data into an anonymous machine.
So, in other words, it's an online demo tape? For creators to send around to (hopefully) interested parties, and with the added advantage that creators can find out who listened to which songs how many times? Sounds like a good idea - as long as the people listening to the songs are aware that they're being tracked this way...
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Thank you very much. I have put a lot of effort into the homepage. Like... a lot. Months and months of A/B testing copy, images, price points. I'm happy with it and I appreciate your words. Thank you.
That site is brilliant. I don't know if this information is useful but when i read it i was conscious of a few things: 1. I could read it really comfortably, i liked the large view on my screen 2. The "And we don't compress your music" really jumped out to me - you've nailed exactly the right amount of text and that twist in the explaination that tells me one of your USPs worked on me, like i'm going to remember that…
Perhaps this is outside the scope of what you want the app to be, but... I teach high school English. We will frequently create audio products like podcasts, speeches, Tedtalks, etc. Traditionally, I would offer feedback in person while a student is drafting/editing their products - but with distance ed. that is somewhat more challenging. The feature I would like is the ability to add an annotation to the audio track…
Will look into this for sure. Thanks so much.
Congratulations on the milestone! And for plugging away at the project, it's great. I noticed a small formatting issue, I think, on the privacy policy page there is a button which has the text "Canvas::Blog Buttons.Next", I assume you probably meant for the text to say something different. Did you build the webpage yourself or use an agency for any of it?
Yeah I built the site and the whole platform myself.
https://division77.com which is linked to in the footer is also me.
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Tech sophistication can be as little as a single PHP webpage or maybe less (There is a blogpost somewhere, from the creator Levelsio) There was a "million dolar page". Marketing is hard, except if you get lucky.
I'd generally still argue that marketing is the hardest part of any side-hustle / startup in general. What is lost on many here is that $100/mo. spend on solid marketing could speed up the growth curve (without that much more engineering effort) so that it would take maybe a year instead of three to reach the point you could quit your day job.
You have to find ways of getting your message out. No matter how good your product is, if your users can't find it, you won't sell anything.
This is probably why it's important to make sure you're not doing it for the "easy money" and also why it can take months or years to make a nice little passive income; the word takes a while to get out.
I love seeing tenacity start to pay off. The way I view things like this is if you like doing it, keep at it. The slow growth over time models is one that gets buried in the flashy SV-style startup stories, but they are equally (if not more) important. I love the site and I only have two points of feedback: 1. I’d move the example player up higher. I suspect many artist will want to know what their link or embeded tr…
1. Yeah I'm gonna re-think the whole sample player thing. That's not a representation of what the pages look like, that's an embed. And I think I'm gonna kill embeds
2. 100%!! I toiled for days over "semi pro" VS "amateur"