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Edit: Also, the chrome extension seems somewhat bad at picking out the song and artist from YouTube videos. I tried to leave feedback about this, but your feedback form doesn't have a submit button.
Huge congrats Chris! Being a 20 year old solo founder is seriously impressive. To everyone hating for how this borrows too heavily from last.fm: I think that you'll find soon enough that there's a serious opportunity in picking up where an acquired but now stagnating startup left off. Startups are so much more agile that this might turn out to be a consistently repeatable strategy.
Sweet, he's given me hope then, I had this feeling I wouldn't have a chance because im 19 (almost 20 - in april).
Good luck Chris, and make sure not to overbloat the app with features (like last fm)
Devan
If you're going to make a last.fm clone you could be a little more subtle about it.
Say, penultimate.fm?
I believe that Like.FM can and will kill Last.FM. The reason is because Last.FM is in the corporate doldrums, and since Last.FM got acquired a few fundamental things happened: Facebook & Twitter. Last.FM has little to no integration with these services, seriously, imagine a social service in 2011 that entirely ignores these networks.
I love Last.FM, I have been a user for over 5 years (http://www.last.fm/user/Hejog) but I am infuriated to no end at the lack of innovation.
Last.FM has forgotten its roots of being a startup, and in this process lost the one thing products need to relentlessly focus on - delighting users. If Like.FM can focus on that, they will beat Last.FM.
The major roadblock with beating Last.FM is that their API is a very defensible beachhead - I refuse to use music services that do not scrobble, as data is worthless if you only see 90% of your listening habits.
Chris needs to run around SV and convince everyone to let him integrate his APIs with their music service. (seriously, isn't Earbits in the same batch as you?)
Just give us URL to point our scrobblers to.
I'm not interested in reading a techcrunch article about a new startup. I'd rather go straight to the startup and look at it.
At Grooveshark, we have a feature that does this and it works amazingly well. If you click on the people icon at the upper left hand corner of the screen you'll see a feed of what your friends are currently listening to on Grooveshark. The feature has become so useful, that I often discover new music to listen to through it much more so than algorithmic recommendations. Social recommendations are indeed the best way…
10 months? http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hottest100/09/countdown/cd_lis... <-- That was the 2009 top list.
I know this is offtopic, but I'll throw it out here anyway. My Last.fm account is 3 or 4 years old. I was 16 then, I'm 20 now. My tastes today are radically different from what they were 4 years ago. 4 years ago I used to listen to KoRn, Marilyn Manson and Eminem, and nothing much besides. Predictably enough, they were the top 3 artists in my Last.fm charts for a long time. Now my tastes have not only changed, they'v…
A lot of people are being rather critical of this launch, which in itself is a rather mean spirited thing to do considering a) anyone launching anything should be applauded, b) and the 20 year old solo founder got into ycombinator with this product, c) data porn startups should be fascinating to hackers. Almost 20% of the comments here, and one of the most upvoted comments here is calling it a clone. I believe that L…
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10 months? http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hottest100/09/countdown/cd_lis... <-- That was the 2009 top list.
Those songs definitely weren't the top songs in 2009 (globally). Here's the billboard from 2009. http://www.billboard.com/charts-year-end/hot-100-songs?year=... .
From wikipedia: "The band's debut album, Sigh No More, was released in the United Kingdom in October 2009, and February 2010 in the United States." It's nice to see Australia getting a media release before the US for a change. :)
2010) http://www.aria.com.au/pages/aria-charts-end-of-year-charts-... 2009) http://www.aria.com.au/pages/aria-charts-end-of-year-charts-...