It’s a pet peeve of mine how selectively the “don’t editorialise headlines” guideline is enforced
The title accurately describes what's interesting about the submission, no hyperbole or clickbait. What's wrong with that?
Nothing. That's the point.
Portugal. The Man – Official Website Is a Google Sheets Document
81–90 of 186 posts
Re: Portugal. The Man – Official Website Is a Google Sheets Document
#82truly headless CMS
Re: Portugal. The Man – Official Website Is a Google Sheets Document
#83truly headless CMS
truly CMSless head
Re: Portugal. The Man – Official Website Is a Google Sheets Document
#84I love this band. But this is actually a terrible idea. Artist websites (IMO) have an actual purpose, keeping your audience updated with tour dates for one. Agents and venues looking for promo pictures. Festival planners looking to get a sense of your style etc., Artist websites have a variety of audiences. My bet would be that they started tracking tour dates on a Google Sheet and decided to share it to a tour manag…
> But this is actually a terrible idea.
A lot of people say that about a lot of art. 'Terrible ideas' can be very, very dope though. IMO mapping their primary domain to a fuckin' Google Sheet is banger hah.
> Artist websites (IMO) have an actual purpose, keeping your audience updated with tour dates for one.
Those are there, though? Also Google returns the 29 tour tracking/ticketing platforms in their trailing results behind the primary domain. I think the fans will be ok...
> Agents and venues looking for promo pictures.
> Festival planners looking to get a sense of your style etc.
Bruh it's Portugal. The Man. There is one agent (theirs) and venues/festival "planners" (???) aren't "looking" for promo photos – they're delivered by their agent and/or management with restrictions, guidelines, and approval for promotional use only. They can't just pull random media off the internet for promo.
Nobody is trying to determine their "style". That's been clearly defined for a minute (decade+) now. If anything these people are selling PTM, not the other way around.
> My bet would be that they started tracking tour dates on a Google Sheet and decided to share it to a tour manager and here we are...
I can guarantee you that's incorrect. You don't think they plot & plan & intelligently deploy their entire, well... everything? For months on months before we see it? Nobody fumbled about, tweaked the layout & styling, and toggled the Share function on the Google Sheet organically haha.
Re: Portugal. The Man – Official Website Is a Google Sheets Document
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
My guess is that this is a funky artistic choice, and that they used to have a "normal" webpage. I checked with the wayback machine, and it looks like my guess is correct. I clicked randomly into an archive a few years old, and here's 2016 website looking a lot more like what you describe http://web.archive.org/web/20160303191156/http://www.portuga... . I guess an audience that you left out in your description is peo…
Ahhh that totally makes sense. Thanks for researching and sharing. Portugal The Man is "made" but my concern was that the new bands that are still struggling to make it should not take inspiration from this and create a google sheets website. That would be terrible for their career.
I would hope that a website wouldn’t make or break an artist. It’s about the music after all. Outside of looking at this post, I don’t think I could tell you what a single musician’s webpage looks like. It’s not something I ever look at.
For concerts, I tend to look for who is coming to venues near me, rather than looking at 200 band websites and hoping they are both on tour and near me.
Do most people go to the band’s actual site to learn this stuff?
Re: Portugal. The Man – Official Website Is a Google Sheets Document
#86A fun funky idea. Sad I can’t think of a ton of HN worthy ideas of musical acts making newsworthy tech-empowered quirky choices. The last thing that comes to mind is Radiohead making In Rainbows pay-what-you-want.
What about when U2’s new album appeared on iPods automatically?
Re: Portugal. The Man – Official Website Is a Google Sheets Document
#87I love this band. But this is actually a terrible idea. Artist websites (IMO) have an actual purpose, keeping your audience updated with tour dates for one. Agents and venues looking for promo pictures. Festival planners looking to get a sense of your style etc., Artist websites have a variety of audiences. My bet would be that they started tracking tour dates on a Google Sheet and decided to share it to a tour manag…
Most ways of putting up a conventional website don't make updates easy, unless you buy into some whole system, or pay someone. If Sheets is familiar and works, why not? Arguably the fact that the website is more likely to be accurate and up to date this way makes it more user friendly.
Sure, but there are a lot of options these days which are much nicer to look at. For example you can easily share Notion documents as websites.
Re: Portugal. The Man – Official Website Is a Google Sheets Document
#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sadly these days social media fulfills that requirement.
Not really. Social media is feed based. Finding "on demand" info such as "when are they playing in my town?" is a nightmare even with pinned posts.
First result for "when is portugal the man playing in my town?" via Google. https://www.google.com/search?q=when+is+portugal+the+man+pla...
https://www.songkick.com/artists/400418-portugal-the-man
The "Track Artist" button at the top of the page will let you subscribe to all future dates inside a radius of your town.
Nightmare avoided. :)
Re: Portugal. The Man – Official Website Is a Google Sheets Document
#89I love this band. But this is actually a terrible idea. Artist websites (IMO) have an actual purpose, keeping your audience updated with tour dates for one. Agents and venues looking for promo pictures. Festival planners looking to get a sense of your style etc., Artist websites have a variety of audiences. My bet would be that they started tracking tour dates on a Google Sheet and decided to share it to a tour manag…
Band websites used to be very much about an art experience and very little about conveying any kinds of facts.
Back in the early 2000s homepages of artists like Radiohead were quite avant-garde and you’d be lucky to learn anything really.
Re: Portugal. The Man – Official Website Is a Google Sheets Document
#90And a huge cookie popup and a massive signup banner