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Re: Show HN: I made a tool to turn a Spotify artist profile into a website

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Post by basseq »

Not an artist, but seems like a neat idea.

Killer marketing function: when I clicked through, I was immediately looking for a live example. You've got the carousel of screenshots, but show me what the actual output looks like.

Heck, add this as an opt-in in the signup process (or better, as a later opt-in once you've shown value), then showcase 4–5 artists. What artist wouldn't want a little free publicity?

I saw your example in the comments below (https://noise.site/kalume)—yes!

(Other enhancement: auto-link URLs in bio. E.g., on the Kalume page, www.kalume.in/press-kit should be a link.)

Re: Show HN: I made a tool to turn a Spotify artist profile into a website

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Post by ahmdyassr »

basseq wrote: post #31

Not an artist, but seems like a neat idea. Killer marketing function: when I clicked through, I was immediately looking for a live example. You've got the carousel of screenshots, but show me what the actual output looks like . Heck, add this as an opt-in in the signup process (or better, as a later opt-in once you've shown value), then showcase 4–5 artists. What artist wouldn't want a little free publicity? I saw yo…

Totally right! Thx a lot for the feedback!

Re: Show HN: I made a tool to turn a Spotify artist profile into a website

#33

Post by ahmdyassr »

DreaminDani wrote: post #29
ahmdyassr wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thx! Fun fact, I still use last.fm counting over 100k scrobbles!

Same! I even wrote a thing that prints out my latest listens on my website: https://dreamindani.com/iam/

Nice!

Re: Show HN: I made a tool to turn a Spotify artist profile into a website

#34

Post by Retr0id »

This is a really slick landing page, but please don't change my cursor into a lollipop without a good reason! Maybe I'm an outlier here, but I find it about as jarring as something like an auto-playing video popup.

On a much more superficial note, I think the font choice in the Kelsy Lu example is questionable - I just don't think it has the right vibes.

Other than that, this is a neat concept.

Re: Show HN: I made a tool to turn a Spotify artist profile into a website

#35

Post by ahmdyassr »

dylan604 wrote: post #27
ahmdyassr wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thx! it doesn't hurt to have non-artists just trying it out for fun. I'm not the best developer so it helps me figure out dev/ux issues real-time and pushes me to improve the platform. The product is quite simple, it's a (unique artist website) x (link-in-bio) that uses Spotify as a starting point for the artist data. I'm pretty sure there is a huge market for it, just need to focus on keeping it simple and build the…

I'm guessing you're thinking smaller independent artists would "need" this? Most artist's websites are created by their management/label/etc. They'll want to have tour information, and lots of other stuff than what Spotify might know about them. There's no way to add concert images/media and personalize it. This is just a reskinning of Spotify and drastically limits usability This seems like a nice experiment of "can…

Let's say you're not wrong! I've been in the music industry for a while and I know a lot of musicians and producers who wanna have a simple website to promote their music and social links. That's why link-in-bio services have become very popular between artists btw.

The goal of Noise is to help musicians build simple beautiful websites without too much effort (think link-in-bio service mashed with Squarespace) and I'm only using Spotify as a starting point for building the site.

I'm already working on important features to get out of the "Reskinning Spotify" phase into the next level phase. Features include connecting to a custom domain, analytics, connecting to tour platforms like bandsintown etc..

I honestly believe there is a huge market for this but time will only tell. Nevertheless, I can understand where you're coming from so thanks a lot for the feedback!

Re: Show HN: I made a tool to turn a Spotify artist profile into a website

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Post by [deleted] »

Retr0id wrote: post #34

This is a really slick landing page, but please don't change my cursor into a lollipop without a good reason! Maybe I'm an outlier here, but I find it about as jarring as something like an auto-playing video popup. On a much more superficial note, I think the font choice in the Kelsy Lu example is questionable - I just don't think it has the right vibes. Other than that, this is a neat concept.

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Re: Show HN: I made a tool to turn a Spotify artist profile into a website

#37

Post by ahmdyassr »

Retr0id wrote: post #34

This is a really slick landing page, but please don't change my cursor into a lollipop without a good reason! Maybe I'm an outlier here, but I find it about as jarring as something like an auto-playing video popup. On a much more superficial note, I think the font choice in the Kelsy Lu example is questionable - I just don't think it has the right vibes. Other than that, this is a neat concept.

I know :) The lollipop cursor was a bad idea from a previous concept that I actually forgot to change! and yeah need to work on the themes/designs a bit more, I was too quick with my font choices! Thx for the feedback!

Re: Show HN: I made a tool to turn a Spotify artist profile into a website

#38

Post by dylan604 »

ahmdyassr wrote: post #35
dylan604 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm guessing you're thinking smaller independent artists would "need" this? Most artist's websites are created by their management/label/etc. They'll want to have tour information, and lots of other stuff than what Spotify might know about them. There's no way to add concert images/media and personalize it. This is just a reskinning of Spotify and drastically limits usability This seems like a nice experiment of "can…

Let's say you're not wrong! I've been in the music industry for a while and I know a lot of musicians and producers who wanna have a simple website to promote their music and social links. That's why link-in-bio services have become very popular between artists btw. The goal of Noise is to help musicians build simple beautiful websites without too much effort (think link-in-bio service mashed with Squarespace) and I'…

With that insight, then it does sound like you might be on to something and heading down a decent path. By heading down, forging your own of course

I'm the guy in the meeting that always says you're demoing the thing too early, as it's not yet representing the full thing. Some people in the room want to constantly show progress and look for gold stars, and some people think it's premature and people will not get the full idea and think it's not what they need. Pretty obvious which group I'm in. There's probably some people in the room with other ideas too. Damned if you do, damned if you don't?

Re: Show HN: I made a tool to turn a Spotify artist profile into a website

#39

Post by winternett »

Spotify does all kinds of tricky things to their music preview player. If you're not a logged in user, it only plays a preview of the tune, which of course does not count towards plays for artists. They also steer listeners away from independent artist links by playing completely different songs on shared links.

I'm thoroughly convinced the platform is against independent music, and actively working to suppress the discovery of new and independent musicians unless they pay a lot of money in ads on Spotify and social media (even before making a dime), especially now since they have set a minimum stream threshold for unknown artists. Their corporate practices are terrible behind the scenes.

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