Nice idea. What if you incorporate the 10,000 hours rule as a sorting method for the interface to sort more highly trained musicians near the top? You could weigh total music practicing, practicing with that instrument and practicing with those band members. You might end up needing to compare instrument similarities, but finding, for instance, a performer highly skilled in two dissimilar instruments would be intriguing to listen to.
Show HN: I made a social network for musicians
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Re: Show HN: I made a social network for musicians
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
I know FB Connect is a deal breaker for lots of HN readers. From a product standpoint, I decided that requiring FB Connect (for now, at least) is one of the best things I could do to make sharing more frictionless, which will help the site grow hopefully.
Is there no way to do it with less? I just get very twitchy when I see that level of permission. We're getting to the stage where a FB profile is important to life, work, family… well everything. We have parents, grandparents, children, mother-in-laws and bosses linked in there… and some near explosive issues always bubbling near the service. Can't you take the minimum and ask me again when I want you to do something…
"But, dude, you're asking for the key to my front door and we've never even drunk a beer together"! -Well put. I'm a musician and would likely love to utilize the site but I'll never find out because I won't support this sort of intrusion. F_ck fb. You can grow without them... in spite of them even!
Re: Show HN: I made a social network for musicians
#33I'm sorry but I think this is a failure of strategy. Musicians use social networks to reach existing fans and acquire new ones. Speaking as a musician, ten years ago we were all about Myspace. These days we're on SoundCloud, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. We don't use Myspace because nobody else does either. We use YouTube, FB, and Twitter because everybody else does, and we use SoundCloud to share new music with ha…
I hear you but Fandalism (despite its name) isn't designed to help musicians connect with fans or make money. Fandalism won't be good for that. Rather, Fandalism is designed to be a community of musicians showing their chops to each other. Kind of like a big "Show HN" but for musicians. Or Dribbble.com or DeviantArt.com. Or ModelMayhem.com, sort of. It may still be a failed strategy, but the strategy is different tha…
I think it's a great idea and looks like it's well put together. You may have seen my criticism above about how to "login", this is more a criticism of FB, not fandalism (but change it, make it optional).
Also, fantastic homage to the Bee-Gee's on your Uke! Have you seen this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LrXlVPn0DI
Re: Show HN: I made a social network for musicians
#34I'm sorry but I think this is a failure of strategy. Musicians use social networks to reach existing fans and acquire new ones. Speaking as a musician, ten years ago we were all about Myspace. These days we're on SoundCloud, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. We don't use Myspace because nobody else does either. We use YouTube, FB, and Twitter because everybody else does, and we use SoundCloud to share new music with ha…
I'm also kind of lost on what problem this is trying to solve. Connecting bands to fans? Connecting bands to bands?
Personally, I've seen a lot more musicians switching from myspace to bandcamp than facebook or soundcloud (though I think soundcloud has gotten a lot more traction in more electronic scenes). Last time I tried was a few months back but the interface in facebook was simply terrible for posting music.
I think that tightly combining social and music is not really so important. Bandcamp provides a beautiful and easy way to present, give away, and even sell your music. You get a professional URL to your work with only a tiny bandcamp footer which can be shared (organically and via like buttons, etc). In some ways, combining bandcamp and facebook/twitter is the unix philosophy in action.