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I'm sorry but I think this is a failure of strategy. Musicians use social networks to reach existing fans and acquire new ones. Speaking as a musician, ten years ago we were all about Myspace. These days we're on SoundCloud, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. We don't use Myspace because nobody else does either. We use YouTube, FB, and Twitter because everybody else does, and we use SoundCloud to share new music with ha…
Fandalism won't be good for that.
Rather, Fandalism is designed to be a community of musicians showing their chops to each other. Kind of like a big "Show HN" but for musicians. Or Dribbble.com or DeviantArt.com. Or ModelMayhem.com, sort of.
It may still be a failed strategy, but the strategy is different than what you surmised.
Here's my profile (I'm a drummer and sometimes ukulele player): http://fandalism.com/pud
great work. May I come with one suggestion.
The main problem in comparing with sites like dribbble and devian art is that you are dealing with two very different senses.
One of them you optimize i.e. you can learn to quickly read through hundreds of pictures in a matter of seconds.
With sound/music there is no way to optimize for faster listening. 10 seconds is going to take 10 seconds.
This means peoples browse frequency is going to be much lower.
So I had an idea.
Why not start with a time limit of say 10 seconds or maybe 16 bars or maybe even less. That way it forces the musician to really cherry pick what part they want to showcase.
If something gets upvoted that musician earns the right to have longer and longer sound samples.
That way you will force the users to listen to more and upvote if they want to hear more.
Maybe that's a way to get some traction going.
What about a mode whereby you can randomly discover artists by queuing videos? I like the dribbble for musicians comparison.
( Nefarious Drumsticks! \m/ )
I'm sorry but I think this is a failure of strategy. Musicians use social networks to reach existing fans and acquire new ones. Speaking as a musician, ten years ago we were all about Myspace. These days we're on SoundCloud, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. We don't use Myspace because nobody else does either. We use YouTube, FB, and Twitter because everybody else does, and we use SoundCloud to share new music with ha…
It looked good until I needed to agree to all this before I could actually see how it worked: * Access my basic information: Includes name, Profile picture, gender, networks, user ID, list of friends and any other information I've made public. * Access my Profile information: Likes, music, TV, movies, books, quotes, About me, Birthday and Current location * Send me email * Post to Facebook as me * Post status message…
I know FB Connect is a deal breaker for lots of HN readers. From a product standpoint, I decided that requiring FB Connect (for now, at least) is one of the best things I could do to make sharing more frictionless, which will help the site grow hopefully.
Can't you take the minimum and ask me again when I want you to do something more sophisticated for me? If you have built my trust and have demonstrated the trade-off I will almost certainly grant you more permission.
But, dude, you're asking for the key to my front door and we've never even drunk a beer together!
I'm sorry but I think this is a failure of strategy. Musicians use social networks to reach existing fans and acquire new ones. Speaking as a musician, ten years ago we were all about Myspace. These days we're on SoundCloud, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. We don't use Myspace because nobody else does either. We use YouTube, FB, and Twitter because everybody else does, and we use SoundCloud to share new music with ha…
and, you forgot, the youngest. If the musicians start using any network, the fans will get there eventually.
pud great work. May I come with one suggestion. The main problem in comparing with sites like dribbble and devian art is that you are dealing with two very different senses. One of them you optimize i.e. you can learn to quickly read through hundreds of pictures in a matter of seconds. With sound/music there is no way to optimize for faster listening. 10 seconds is going to take 10 seconds. This means peoples browse…
2. I hate it when the page loads and I'm aiming at a video in the screen, but it then randomly starts to scroll somewhere else, and it'd make me mistakenly click on the wrong video. To use the website, I had to let it load the page, count 1-2 in my head (while it'd scroll I don't know where randomly), and then I'd click on the video I want.
3. About the connect with facebook and share with facebook. For some reasons, it really scare me the way it's done. It should somewhat tell me what action does what. For instance, after registrering, there's a popup saying "Now share your profile on Facebook" [share] [cancel]. Will [cancel] cancel my registration? I had no idea.
Otherwise, great job! I'll use it and look forward to it :)
About the #1, I think it requires maybe a bit more explanation. I wanted to say "This artist is good", but didn't want to be involved into all the facebook connect, creation process, etc. Would be good to have the user helps promote the video but only force him to create an account if really necessary.