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I was able to generate this error : Stripe\Exception\InvalidRequestException Invalid email address: asfd@fsdf vendor/stripe/stripe-php/lib/Exception/ApiErrorException.php:38 by omiting the tld in the email field at https://songbox.rocks/join/free
Thank you!
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Yeah, does for me too: >Filter: /api/v1/track/* >Filter List: EasyPrivacy > https://songbox.rocks/api/v1/track/6d2c872d-fb1b-11e8-87d2-4... Probably some generic analytics blocking filter.
Yeah, "track" in your URL seems to be the culprit. Bad luck.
thanks for pointing out. I will remedy.
After clicking around your site a bit, I am left with a somewhat "cold" feeling of an anonymous service. 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.
HOWEVER... I take it onboard.
Would it help if I made more a big deal about the "why I built it" article?
Very nice. Congrats. Keep on going. I remember that I started with my side project back in 2011. A small app. It made like 1 dollar a month. I spend like 8 hours on it every day and night next to my normal day job. People were thinking I was insane. After 1 year, it made like 1 dollar per day. Then few months later I got 20 dollars in one single day. Another few months later it made for the first time 100 dollars a d…
I put a lot of time into my side projects but that is mostly the whole saturday and sunday, but even then I obviously don't feel so well rested on monday.
Very nice. Congrats. Keep on going. I remember that I started with my side project back in 2011. A small app. It made like 1 dollar a month. I spend like 8 hours on it every day and night next to my normal day job. People were thinking I was insane. After 1 year, it made like 1 dollar per day. Then few months later I got 20 dollars in one single day. Another few months later it made for the first time 100 dollars a d…
I love these stories also but I am genuinely curious how you were able to work 8 hours a day on it and also work your regular job. I assume you don't work a full time job, otherwise it seems unhealthy. I put a lot of time into my side projects but that is mostly the whole saturday and sunday, but even then I obviously don't feel so well rested on monday.
It's fucking crazy with some people, but that's what it takes to get ahead of the competition.
Edit: Please note that I'm not advocating that anybody should do this, but just be aware that a lot of people are setting that level for themselves and in some cases for their subordinates.
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Maybe what I am asking is ambiguous. However, @dogma said that anything you work on during the time you are employed might be regarded as company IP. What I am asking is what happens with work/projects/apps that someone has done on the side before joining a company, and especially in the case that this creates a revenue stream.
Oh in that case I'm not sure, but I would always be clear with the employer at the interview stage. In my current role I mentioned that I work on things on the side and they were like... oh that's not allowed, and I said... oh well I can't work here then. They changed the rule lol
Good for you! There seems to be a certain mindset in some company bosses, and it's usually middle management types who have made it to a moderately senior level and never not been "company men" (or women etc. obviously) in my experience. It's like they think becoming an employee at their firm means giving over your life to them, and that by graciously allowing you to work for them they're doing you some big favour that justifies that stance. This is supported by the corporate lawyers routinely trying to insert heavily one-sided terms into employment contracts. But that simply isn't what an employment relationship is, certainly not in the West in 2020, and enough good people saying "no" and being willing to walk away is the only way the "we own you" people will learn.
Very nice. Congrats. Keep on going. I remember that I started with my side project back in 2011. A small app. It made like 1 dollar a month. I spend like 8 hours on it every day and night next to my normal day job. People were thinking I was insane. After 1 year, it made like 1 dollar per day. Then few months later I got 20 dollars in one single day. Another few months later it made for the first time 100 dollars a d…
I love these stories also but I am genuinely curious how you were able to work 8 hours a day on it and also work your regular job. I assume you don't work a full time job, otherwise it seems unhealthy. I put a lot of time into my side projects but that is mostly the whole saturday and sunday, but even then I obviously don't feel so well rested on monday.
Doing that much work on a side gig is totally possible if you want to do it and have the right disposition.
Some, hopefully constructive criticisms, mostly nitpicking/paper cut bugs. My pedantism doesn't mean I don't like it ;)
- As somebody else mentioned, the email field on the signup page is a bit off-putting just to try it. Maybe add some text on why you need to know it (password reminders, whathaveyou). "Display Name" was already mentioned too for something that could be improved.
- I think it would be good to have a password confirmation box on signup. I have enough family that constantly mistypes their passwords to know that this is a thing :P
- When I created a box and was lead to the upload page (Step 2 of 4), I somehow assumed it would let me drag and drop straight to the page. Instead I had to click the button. Not a major thing but having a shortcut (like popping up that file picker once a dragover event happens) would be nice I think. Same for the Tracks page.
- After creating a box and uploading a track on the next page, it might be a good idea to pre-select that track ;) The list of selectable tracks is also a little too subtle. I had to think a few seconds what's going on; ideally I'd have to think less about it.
- It doesn't allow me to upload ogg or opus or straight wav. Again, no biggie, but the error text there could be more helpful. "The accepted file types are audio/mpeg,audio/mp3" is not so great. I later saw it says that "starters" are only allowed mp3 on the account page. Does this mean other formats are allowed when upgrading? I didn't see any info about that.
- The text listing the benefits of the different tiers on /upgrade is extremely thin and hard to read when viewed on a regular non-retina display on a Windows box. It also is different to the different tiers text straight on the homepage. And /upgrade has no favicon (tries to get /favicon.ico instead of /favicon/favicon-32x32.png that other pages use). It also shows me a $ price and an £ approximation. I'm on € and used to $, but seeing £ is mildly confusing. It also has a title of "Become a member", but I am already a member :P
- It now tells me: "You have exceeded the number of available SongBoxes on the Free tier. Consider upgrading." But the "Your SongBoxes" says "My Private Songboxes (0 of 5 in use)". I did create a few boxes and subsequently deleted them. Now I got none and am not allowed ot make any more. Also, shouldn't that be "(0 of 1 in use)" on starter? Bug?
- Speaking of which, you sometimes use "SongBox(es)" and sometimes "Songbox(es)", come to think about it.
- I like your privacy policy, short and simple. But it doesn't state if and for how long you will retain data after the user removes it. That would be a clarification worth making.
- Since you're pretty much about privacy too according to your privacy policy, a way to delete the account would be nice.
Would I use it? Maybe, but I am not a "pro" and the pricing is too expensive for the me (I am a cheapskate) at 10 bucks/month / 100 bucks/year for just 15 tracks. My price range for something like that, being "Hobby", would be maybe around 20-25 bucks / year for 50 tracks, but that's just me.
Site looks very slick, by the way, not at all "side gig"!