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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 pg5 »

novaomnidev wrote: post #64

What does swiping left mean? I may not want to collab with someone for a particular project but that doesn’t mean I never want to see their profile again. Also swiping left feels like rejecting them. What if I’m just browsing the artists? I don’t want to be rejecting while I’m browsing options. Also why am I limited to my area? I want to be able to collaborate digitally. I don’t need to be in close proximity to do th…

Thanks for the feedback! Having a skip, but not reject sounds useful.

I have in the roadmap a "don't limit to my area" option!

Also plan to have some sort of inline playable sample on the profile, but haven't figured out the best way to do that - video vs audio vs embedding SoundCloud or YouTube.

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

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Post by arcticfox »

chrisin2d wrote: post #74
paxys wrote: post #41

Unless there are somehow millions of musicians looking to get matched in a single city, the "swipe" UI is pointless and will just make the whole thing unusable. The search + filter pattern for online datasets was perfected many decades ago. Use it.

Furthermore, this photo-forward interface design pattern presents candidates' physical attractiveness as the most salient feature. While this is desirable in a dating app, this is probably not very relevant for assessing people for their potential as musical collaborators. From the top of my head, I'm going to guess people want (1) personable and agreeable bandmates with (2) compatible music styles, (3) musical talen…

I like your ideas, and I feel like tiktok/reels would be the better base for this type of app than tinder

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

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Post by wizardwes »

pg5 wrote: post #39
wizardwes wrote: post #32

Installed to give it a look, but, sadly, as expected, nobody in my area, and concerts are basically non-existent.

I considered making my own profile visible to everyone regardless of distance.

Would be cute, kinda like MySpace, but I think would detract from the experience if there are people in your area, unless it was always the first one to show up, and only ever when you first open the app

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

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Post by pvg »

htrp wrote: post #12

Can we page the owners/devs of the app to at least explain what they've built and at least answer some questions about it?

That's effectively what 'Show HN' means - someone is posting their own work and is around to talk about it.

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

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Post by pg5 »

paxys wrote: post #41

Unless there are somehow millions of musicians looking to get matched in a single city, the "swipe" UI is pointless and will just make the whole thing unusable. The search + filter pattern for online datasets was perfected many decades ago. Use it.

Good point, I do intend to add genre and instrument filtering. I figured I had some time to do that since there are barely any users. Not much point of having filtering if there are 5 people in your area.

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

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Post by RajT88 »

rozap wrote: post #19
debo_ wrote: post #11

Drummers are probably going to be the "attractive person" equivalent on this app lol

We did have a drummer but unfortunately he died in a bizarre gardening accident.

Now technically he died by choking on his own vomit. But the thing is - it wasn't his vomit. But you can't very well fingerprint vomit, innit?

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

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Post by pg5 »

chrisin2d wrote: post #74
paxys wrote: post #41

Unless there are somehow millions of musicians looking to get matched in a single city, the "swipe" UI is pointless and will just make the whole thing unusable. The search + filter pattern for online datasets was perfected many decades ago. Use it.

Furthermore, this photo-forward interface design pattern presents candidates' physical attractiveness as the most salient feature. While this is desirable in a dating app, this is probably not very relevant for assessing people for their potential as musical collaborators. From the top of my head, I'm going to guess people want (1) personable and agreeable bandmates with (2) compatible music styles, (3) musical talen…

I agree with pretty much all this. I avoided in-app videos because of the complexity and cost of building a transcoding/streaming system. But I suppose audio-only wouldn't be too bad.

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

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Post by pg5 »

feoren wrote: post #47
pg5 wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I figured that "allow once, approximate location" would be sufficient for the privacy conscious. A little scared to make it selectable, as it would make it much easier for spammers/scammers to target locations, as the only verification is email. I do realize they can still change their location that with an emulator.

> A little scared to make it selectable, as it would make it much easier for spammers/scammers to target locations, as the only verification is email. I do realize they can still change their location that with an emulator. So there's not really any hurdle at all for automated spammers who can fake their location easily, but you're making it more difficult for genuine users anyway?

My thought process was that clicking allow or allow once would be less difficult for genuine users than searching for their city.
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