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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
#122Earlier 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".
Why not both? Assuming it's running off a DB in the cloud, it should be simple enough for the developer to write a web front-end for it.
I try to keep my phone lean and mean, and I'm not inclined to install an app for something I don't use all the time. Heck, even if I were to use this all the time, I would much rather use it through a web interface.
Re: Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab
#123Earlier 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?
I don't think he's making it more difficult. How is automatic "more difficult" than manually typing in your city?
Re: Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab
#124Unless 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.
Yeah, swiping is a dark pattern employed by dating apps. Even with millions of users, there's better ways to match people up than a simple swipe. It's to keep people at the mercy of an algorithm where spending money is the only way to get any sort of control over what you see. It exists only for shady monetisation.
Swiping doesn't match people. It's simply a (usually shitty) UI affordance for the user to progress through the application.
Re: Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab
#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think, fwiw, I would rather work with someone who has the drive and motivation to finish a track of their own than merely recruit a noodler. I think that from a management perspective, I would also abhor opening up any sort of video/audio sharing because then you’re a target for the majors and you get DMCA’d into the ground when kids start uploading their remixes of Taylor Swift songs or whatever.
I work in the music industry. An important thing said once to my arrogant twenty something self by a product manager: "Our market is amateurs. The pro market is a unsustainably tiny." There's basically no product in the music industry that can be supported by just pros. There just aren't very many of them. And again, most drummers and bass players don't create complete tracks on their own, and they're the main thing…
Interesting. My perspective is pretty skewed as a semi-pro musician and someone who is mostly a recording artist and not a live band/jam guy. I think there are a lot of people who CAN do it all but might be open to collabs with the right person(s). You are correct that the pro market is vanishingly small but if OP thinks they’re making any money off of bassists who could just post on Craigslist I think they’re in for a surprise.
Re: Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab
#126What a dumb app
Re: Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab
#127Just 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.
Yep, just 2 cents from me! Excited to see how the app develops!
Re: Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab
#128Ease of recording has made remote bands and collaborations very common, you can trade stems with people anywhere and make music. This would be a million times more useful without the geographical restriction, although I concede if the true intent is to make in person bands then sure, it's useful. Just consider the wider market.
A lot of people have mentioned this, so I'll add the toggle to disable "local artists only" to the top of my TODO. Though I suppose genre filtering would need to be built first, or it would be obnoxious.
Genre is probably a prerequisite, yeah. I wouldn’t want to use something that basically firehosed every metal guitarist on earth into my feed when I’m looking for someone who’s into post-rock (or whatever)
Re: Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab
#129ugh. had this idea more than 14 years ago with nothing to do it for. hope the concept takes off.
Re: Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab
#130Does the app feature music by musicians? As a musician that's what I'd expect to see myself, because seeing a bunch of people only talking about what they do is useless in terms of conveying style and skill. It also enables scammers and fraud if people aren't required to at least upload a video of themselves in action. Back in the old days, we had a local paper that allowed musicians to connect from a classified sect…
Would be cool to have a version of this app that banned photos, and only allowed music samples as an introduction.