Just a comment - love the idea, going to use this, I think it’s a good idea not to lead with “Tinder for X”. At this point Tinder occupies a pretty bad lexical territory of being one of the classic examples of anti-user practices and enshittification.
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
#102Would be interested in testing, however not available in my country.. is there a particular reason? Seems like some artists like to collaborate across borders.. it's not like a dating app where your location is crucial, and you want certain level of usage saturation in a particular region before expanding.. I guess what I'm saying is: why not open for all regions?
Re: Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab
#103What's the equivilent of marketing/engineering matching, for founding a company?
Have you tried YC's Co-founder matching tool?
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#104Love the idea, but I've tried similar apps in the past and they all suffer from lack of critical mass, and/or lots of accounts with little activity. I'd love it if this one were different, but Craigslist has been the most consistent way I've found to connect with musicians.
Other services I've tried are Hendrix (gohendrix.com) and Vampr
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
What does a drummer use for birth control? Their personality. (Agree with sibling posts, getting a great drummer is hard and amazing.)
I’m slow. Can somebody explain all the drummer jokes? What’s wrong with drummers?
They beat on things with sticks, like a caveman. It's low hanging fruit.
The bass player often cops it to a lesser extent as well, it's how singers and guitar players retain our false sense of superiority. We actually usually love our drummers (but only if their playing is on form, otherwise they cop abuse).
Re: Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab
#106Congratulations on yet another novel attempt to apply the swipe-based matching algorithm that has so effectively revolutionized hookups to the world of music creation. It's heartwarming to see how technology keeps pushing the boundaries of human interaction, from love and sex to now forming musical collaborations. I can just envision the future where we'll have swipe-based tools for finding roommates, jobs, and even…
RoomMateMatch, JobMatch, and ToiletPaperMatch are all in the works, I just have to copy paste the repo and find-replace the brand names.
Plot twist: ToiletPaperMatch doesn't use a swiping UI.
Re: Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab
#107Installed 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 definitely get this sentiment, but as someone who's used similar apps for other stuff, i prefer knowing that people who are viewing my profile at least had some email verification yes anyone can use a throwaway email, maybe it's all irrational, but i know from user interviews i'm not the only one who feels that way same thing for app vs web. there's at least a feeling that scammers/hackers/creeps on the other side…
App is a dealbreaker for me also. Neat idea though.
Re: Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab
#108I joined a similar app .. it has a lot reviews in the app store (not to say those are real lol) and i was excited to join and meet fellow local musicians.
If you thought online dating was hard and judgemental ... finding musicians to play music is even more judgemental .. if you are a good to great singer for instance these apps will keep you busy. Personally i just wanted to connect and play music without the judgement (tho do want you to be able to actually play an instrument fairly well .. strum chords on guitar and lets sing along as we strum together).
I posted songs i wrote where professional singers were singing them and those got people reaching out. Their messages were like good song and did you sing that (i noted i did not) but they became disinterested when they truly realized i was not the singer.
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#109Would be interested in testing, however not available in my country.. is there a particular reason? Seems like some artists like to collaborate across borders.. it's not like a dating app where your location is crucial, and you want certain level of usage saturation in a particular region before expanding.. I guess what I'm saying is: why not open for all regions?
I didn't want to release the app without proper translations for the target countries. FYI - I haven't yet implemented the feature to toggle off "local-only" artists.
Re: Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab
#110Just a comment - love the idea, going to use this, I think it’s a good idea not to lead with “Tinder for X”. At this point Tinder occupies a pretty bad lexical territory of being one of the classic examples of anti-user practices and enshittification.
Ah, I wasn't aware of the connotation. Luckily, this post is the only place where I've described it in that way.