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Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab

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Re: Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab

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Post by grumpymouse »

I’m not going to install this because I’m not looking for a band, but it would be cool if you could keep in mind solo musicians often need to hire a band in order to play

This could be a good way for people to find that when they don’t have other musicians in their network who can fill that role for them.

Re: Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab

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Post by ajakate »

I downloaded the app, but running into an infinite spinner on the main "Artists" tab, so can't really comment on the what the app is like...

What I will say is that it seems a little unfortunate that so many "matching" apps take the tinder swipe model these days when it really makes the matching experience worse.

I have a friend who's a drummer in central Illinois. He's used https://www.bandmix.com to find multiple groups that he's been jamming with for a while now. The UI is such that you can see a grid of all the bands/artists matching your criteria, and can facet and filter your search in the sidebar with a lot of other options including distance, commitment level, genre, etc.

Re: Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab

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Post by block_dagger »

Installed iOS version. Looks like I can’t even browse content without (1) giving away email and (2) entering profile information. So I uninstalled it. Please consider showing content before you ask for personal info from the user.

Re: Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab

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Post by dylan604 »

grumpymouse wrote: post #3

I’m not going to install this because I’m not looking for a band, but it would be cool if you could keep in mind solo musicians often need to hire a band in order to play This could be a good way for people to find that when they don’t have other musicians in their network who can fill that role for them.

seems like something a website could do and not require an app. I hope the dev learned a lot about making an app while building this, as that seems the only purpose for app only to me. Unless they want to get at all of that precious data hoovering money potential. I have become so callused and cynical from malicious devs, that's my first thought on anything that is an app instead of a website

Re: Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab

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Post by drusepth »

dylan604 wrote: post #8
grumpymouse wrote: post #3

I’m not going to install this because I’m not looking for a band, but it would be cool if you could keep in mind solo musicians often need to hire a band in order to play This could be a good way for people to find that when they don’t have other musicians in their network who can fill that role for them.

seems like something a website could do and not require an app. I hope the dev learned a lot about making an app while building this, as that seems the only purpose for app only to me. Unless they want to get at all of that precious data hoovering money potential. I have become so callused and cynical from malicious devs, that's my first thought on anything that is an app instead of a website

I think the "app" form-factor is preferrable to a "website" for a lot of people. Almost every website I've built over the past 10 years (summing to ~900k-ish users) has had constant streams of users always requesting an app alternative to the website, quote "even if it's just the regular website in an app".
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