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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 dylan604 »

drusepth wrote: post #10
dylan604 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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".

You just described a web app. Go forth and sin no more

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

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Post by spacebacon »

block_dagger wrote: post #7

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.

I agree, musicians are a finicky bunch. Show profiles and onboard after peaking an interest.

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

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Post by jyash97 »

Wow, I had a similar idea back in 2018 and I created a visual prototype for it with bunch of screens and did user interviews.

I didnt get chance to look into the app fully yet, but my idea covered musicians and people ( like restaurant owner/mgr or other ) to hire musician, I also handled a way to find other band members too. Would love to share my idea and details in case you are interested

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

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Post by pg5 »

ajakate wrote: post #4

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 g…

Thanks for checking it out. Ugh, I thought I had fixed the infinite spin, but it seems to happen on the first app open occasionally still - its related to permissions dialog

I intend to add filtering, but didn't initially because 0 people use it currently, and also wanted to get an mvp out quickly

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