The concept is fine but I find the design a little drab. In my opinion this is an "entertainment" based site and you mentioned possibly selling music... you need to jazz it up, give it some pop - create a vibrant color scheme - then I think people will feel more in-tune with your site.
Ask HN: Review our app, Muspy (new album notification service)
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#12It's a pain to add artists one-by-one, and the service isn't valuable until I do. I (and a lot of my friends) already have a list of artists in my Facebook profile. You should let me paste that in and parse it.
Good call, I'm going to add import from last.fm, facebook and probably iTunes.
Re: Ask HN: Review our app, Muspy (new album notification service)
#13Cool startup, I like the logo. The video is a nice touch, people are just too lazy to read these days (myself included). Suggestions: - Lose some of the fluff. For example, in your "what?" section, you could've written it as simply "We notify you when artists release new albums". There is no reason to have more words than you need to describe your product. - I would have preferred voice in the video. Don't be shy, ha…
Try to humanize the site as much as possible.
Based on QA, I wonder what feedback you would get if you placed the video above the fold....
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#15On a different note: do you care how people pronounce your name?
My first thought was "Muspy", almost rhymes with "Musky".
My second thought (upon seeing the logo) was "Oh! Mus- is from music. And -py is from ... Python?" So now I'm thinking about pronouncing it "Muse-py"--as in how you'd pronounce a Python module.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Good call, I'm going to add import from last.fm, facebook and probably iTunes.
A widget/plug-in thingy that scans your music library and adds the artists to your list would be nice.
Re: Ask HN: Review our app, Muspy (new album notification service)
#18this is cool, but the real reason I'd want this? honestly? When the albums get leaked to what.cd. I like the layout, I really like the sign up form (nice and simple) one thing, when searching for something with multiple results there is no way to go "back" once you've clicked "n more artists" its a bit weird that the album links dont go direct to amazon/iTMS -- i assumed that was your revenue stream?
this is cool, but the real reason I'd want this? honestly? I guess it depends on how many artists you want to follow. And also how obscure they are. I personally have about 80 artists I absolutely want to know when they have a new release (to sample it or at least to read a review). And 80% of them are not even on Amazon. its a bit weird that the album links dont go direct to amazon/iTMS -- i assumed that was your re…