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Console.fm - New social music site

#1

Post by r4vik » Sun, Jul 10, 2011, 8:39 AM UTC

based on charts of genres... but not telling where the charts come from. linked to @500startups

Console.fm - New social music site
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#2

Post by r4vik » Sun, Jul 10, 2011, 8:41 AM UTC

somehow linked to @500startups and not telling where the charts come from (yet).

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#3

Post by alexkiwi » Sun, Jul 10, 2011, 8:50 AM UTC

r4vik wrote: post #2

somehow linked to @500startups and not telling where the charts come from (yet).

We're the guys from Hello World, part of the accelerator batch. This was a side project while we were waiting on another developer to refactor some code. All in all we spent about 3 days on the project. The goal was to make something we could listen to at the office all day without having to click "Awesome" every 5 minutes, but we went a bit overboard on the social features.

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#4

Post by plasma » Sun, Jul 10, 2011, 9:00 AM UTC

I don't have a twitter account, so I can't even look around the site or find out more about it.

EDIT: Not so much of a jab, rather just to let you know you've maybe lost a customer or two because its not worth the payoff for me to get an account to just look at your site (I don't know if its a site ill like enough to justify that effort!)

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#5

Post by grovulent » Sun, Jul 10, 2011, 9:00 AM UTC

This has 7 points within 18 minutes. Forgive me if I'm wrong - but isn't it a little uncool to spruik yourselves this way?

I mean - fair enough if you had linked to a blog post highlighting some interesting tech you had used or something like that - but to a blank twitter sign up page... which I don't want to use... without even an overview of what the service does... that's lame. (even lamer to be vote rigging such a lame submission).

If I could downvote this - I would.

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#6

Post by maneesh1 » Sun, Jul 10, 2011, 9:01 AM UTC

Great stuff...been playing this all day.

Grovulent - do you have DATA to back up your claim?

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#7

Post by dkordik » Sun, Jul 10, 2011, 9:02 AM UTC

The most frictionless zero-to-using I can ever remember having. Amazing work, fellas.

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#8

Post by alexkiwi » Sun, Jul 10, 2011, 9:03 AM UTC

Console.fm is a way to listen to the top electronica charts, it requires Twitter log in to use the channel based chat system. We made this in 72 hours as a side project to listen to better music.

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#9

Post by coryl » Sun, Jul 10, 2011, 9:03 AM UTC

Whose hosting the music?

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#10

Post by r4vik » Sun, Jul 10, 2011, 9:03 AM UTC

grovulent wrote: post #5

This has 7 points within 18 minutes. Forgive me if I'm wrong - but isn't it a little uncool to spruik yourselves this way? I mean - fair enough if you had linked to a blog post highlighting some interesting tech you had used or something like that - but to a blank twitter sign up page... which I don't want to use... without even an overview of what the service does... that's lame. (even lamer to be vote rigging such…

I don't have anything to do with them, just been listening to it all morning and thought it was cool and HN might be interested as it was made by dudes in the startup community as a side project. Also with turntable.fm blowing up right now, we could be looking at a rebirth in social music innovation which has been kind of stagnant since pandora/spotify/grooveshark.