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Re: About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off

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Support for hundreds of thousands of bands and their bank payouts, and millions of customers. (They also sell vinyl, CDs, cassettes, and t-shirts.) Edit: they reportedly had a good editorial team, but I'm not sure how many people you need for that part.

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Re: About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off

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Background, I work in diligence for software aquisitions. There are a lot of assumptions on this thread. I don't know the answers in this case (not sure if anyone does?) but I think it is naive to assume that Bandcamp was wise to be employing all these people. While acquisitions tanking a company with stupid decisions are super common, it's also super common for companies who are trying to look like they are growing…

Bandcamp had 118 employees total. That doesn't smell bloated to me. (Source: https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/bandcamp-layoffs-oakland... )

compare this to instagram before being acquired for $1B

Re: About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off

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Support for hundreds of thousands of bands and their bank payouts, and millions of customers. (They also sell vinyl, CDs, cassettes, and t-shirts.) Edit: they reportedly had a good editorial team, but I'm not sure how many people you need for that part.

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bandcamp is an ecom provider. it is their core product.

edit: your product showed me a loading spinner and then crashed, so. not sure what you think you're doing

Re: About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off

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Support for hundreds of thousands of bands and their bank payouts, and millions of customers. (They also sell vinyl, CDs, cassettes, and t-shirts.) Edit: they reportedly had a good editorial team, but I'm not sure how many people you need for that part.

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How is your business that you plugged different from Bandcamp, apart from being smaller? Sounds like you're both in the same business?

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Looks like it, Starbucks has a tendency to suddenly close stores in areas where unions are attempted. Doesn't seem to matter to them if the store was doing well or not.

Around here (near Seattle) they are having to explain why the foam floor mats behind the counter used for anti-fatigue were removed as trip hazards, but only in stores attempting to unionize...

I'm not going to get into the why's at Starbucks, but I worked retail years ago and one person insisted on having a standing mat, and I tripped over that thing -all- the time.

Just get more comfortable shoes. As ugly as Crocs type shoes are, my back pain disappeared when I started wearing them. They don't -have- to be gaudy, I wear the Santa Cruz often which just looks like a typical loafer. They also make 'work shoes', which are apparently loved by nurses...

Re: About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off

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> i only go there to buy music if I have a direct link. > Bandcamp doesn't even allow YouTube video embedding for music videos, which is a huge mistake alone. > Music platforms should be heavily promoting any independent artist that pays them a monthly fee... They seem to think that monthly subscription money form hard working artists is simply for extra file storage above free accounts. You haven't really understood…

This is exactly why I have Spotify rather than bandcamp. It finds music I like, regardless of musician effort. I found more new musicians in the first year of Spotify than decades before. It’s a loss for everyone if good music goes unheard.

Spotify has a catalogue that appeals to people that like pop music. Bandcamp provides an outlet for artists that aren't part of the pop music spectrum. I'm deep into electronic music and Bandcamp is the _only_ place that some artists are even listed, and it's become an amazing space for artists that want to release limited press special edition records - pre-ordered by fans to cover the manufacturing price. Prior to this I acquired a few cool records via Kickstarter, but Bandcamp is preferable.

Furthermore, Spotify are well known for paying artists next to nothing. Bandcamp are well known for letting artists take the majority of the purchase price of their music.

Not to mention, listening to mp3s is for chumps!

Bandcamp is the best there is (for now) if you want to financially support the artists you like. I spend a lot of time in record stores (both physical and digital) but they are mostly extinct now. There's a few I still frequent: Juno, Boomkat, Hardwax among them, but the more the world turns to services like Spotify, the less room there is for real music stores.

It's super annoying how the internet kills everything that was good. Bullshit for the masses over quality service for people that care.

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That hasn't helped any. I have almost 1100 liked songs, several dozen liked albums, and several years of near daily listening. The recommendations are still less good (for me) than what YouTube recommended without an account, just based on my listening history.

I've been satisfied, but that's good to hear. I'll give it another try. My biggest problem with the Spotify recommendation is that it seems to be a bit "sticky", recommended recent listens more than anything.

I think that's what I don't like about it, also.

It seems like it gives me recommendations too similar to what I'm already listening to.

Re: About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off

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Support for hundreds of thousands of bands and their bank payouts, and millions of customers. (They also sell vinyl, CDs, cassettes, and t-shirts.) Edit: they reportedly had a good editorial team, but I'm not sure how many people you need for that part.

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What does your app do? I don't get it. (Read the website and still don't get it)

Re: About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off

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Support for hundreds of thousands of bands and their bank payouts, and millions of customers. (They also sell vinyl, CDs, cassettes, and t-shirts.) Edit: they reportedly had a good editorial team, but I'm not sure how many people you need for that part.

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Because it's a different business? No one needs to run anything. Bandcamp offers an easy way for musicians to have a fairly customizable online presence with a flexible pricing model, a merch store, and, importantly, plug into a larger platform's discoverability mechanism.

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Bandcamp had 118 employees total. That doesn't smell bloated to me. (Source: https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/bandcamp-layoffs-oakland... )

compare this to instagram before being acquired for $1B

Have you used Bandcamp? It's a way larger feature set than an iOS app for picture sharing.
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