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Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab

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Re: Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab

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Drummers are probably going to be the "attractive person" equivalent on this app lol

What does a drummer use for birth control? Their personality. (Agree with sibling posts, getting a great drummer is hard and amazing.)

How do you know the drum riser is completely level?

The drool comes out both sides of the drummers mouth.

Re: Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab

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This is so insultingly dumb. The skill and music categories are simplistic and show no knowledge of the true depth and breadth of music styles or techniques, and it pathetically assumes I want to find someone within 10 “miles”. You do know that there are 7.5 billion people on this planet that don’t know or give a shit about your dumb barbarian units?

“Yeah, brah! This’ll help you build your sweet-as rock band… or jazz or some shit, whatevs…”

Re: Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab

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Which language do you think is most popular in the UK? :)

Not American! We apologize for the inconvenience, but unfortunately, our specialized app is not authorized to operate or cash checks from your financial center due to a catalog of regionalized legal financial terminology, and therefore, we cannot fulfill a properly personalized vernacular experience. Unfortunately, this language barrier also prohibits any user dialog about future support for your neighborhood . See y…

Fun fact: "-ize" is a valid British spelling (but "-yze", e.g. in "analyze" isn't!)

See https://www.oed.com/dictionary/apologize_v & https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_spelling

Re: Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab

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Neat idea but the musician directory seems buggy. After scrolling once through a few musicians I can’t seem to return to them. Eventually the entire list disappears and I get a “no musicians in your area” message. No documentation, user guide, or support that I could find. It would be cool to see this working or to understand how to use it… i’m an amateur musician who has thought of looking for others to jam with.

Thanks for checking it out. That behavior is intentional and mirrors apps like Tinder and Bumble. Swiping left means you aren't interested in the profile and won't see it again.

Got a lot of feedback for needing a neutral skip, so that's on my list.

Also considering replacing the swiping UI entirely, as many people here pointed out that it's not really ideal.

Re: Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab

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What does swiping left mean? I may not want to collab with someone for a particular project but that doesn’t mean I never want to see their profile again. Also swiping left feels like rejecting them. What if I’m just browsing the artists? I don’t want to be rejecting while I’m browsing options. Also why am I limited to my area? I want to be able to collaborate digitally. I don’t need to be in close proximity to do th…

Agreed, I don't understand this Tinder-swipe craze. You should check out my competing app Bandit, at bandit-app.com, which offers what you're looking for without the superficial dating/swipe aspect. You can browse musicians without having to reject any, you can come back to them at any time. Also, you can pick any area you would like. There's a lot of features coming soon including integrating audio samples, equipment, etc and many third party integrations!

Re: Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab

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I think this would be awesome as a normal search classifieds kind of thing, not as a Tinder thing. Tinder's selling point isn't the swiping mechanism itself, but that it's taking something publicly taboo, harem culture, and enabling it by taking it private, with a discrete, subtle, and low-stakes mechanism for participating in that culture. There's nothing to hide when it comes to finding musicians to jam with, so th…

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Re: Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab

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Are you a musician? Have you ever used a site like this? My comments are literally based on the disappointments in using similar sites in the past. Most people don't add audio. Profiles without audio are useless. Making (and possibly providing minimal vetting?) people post audio would already be a big step in the right direction.

Just my experience but as a musician who used Bandmix for a while, I found that most profiles I was interested had audio. It felt like it was expected and profiles without links to audio weren’t complete.

Can't get a track to upload to the streaming pile of shit that is Bandmix. You, check me on Soundcloud and I will check you out in kind. Your Pal, Murderwords (in the paper bag mask)

Re: Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab

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Since this is the first iteration, I went the easiest route where people link their SoundCloud/Spotify/or Youtube channel. I considered having MP3 uploads or even video uploads, but didn't seem worth it building a transcoding/streaming system, when someone could still upload things that is not them playing. Another idea is to "verify" linked Spotify accounts by having the artist place a short random code in their Spo…

You're missing the bulk of the already small market if you're assuming people signing up for your app will universally have Spotify tracks up or their own YouTube channel. Soundcloud is more likely, but still not a given, as it's geared towards mostly finished tracks. Hint: the most sought after band members are bassists and drummers, and they don't tend to do solo tracks. You want people to be able to have a low qua…

I just use Soundcloud to dump my rough shit, my gear got housejacked, so feedback is all its good for anyway, the other platform are where the money is, once someone get to that point.
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