How does this differ from Vampr and Bandmix, which claim to be the same thing?
From what I can tell, it's worse than Vampr, but also has a smaller network.
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
#162What 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.
TikTok is your top competitor. Your edge aganst it is that you are focused on musicians only. BTW TikTok has swiping down to go to next video, up to go back, left to go to live, and the like, follow, comment etc.
But yeah, "don't limit to area" should be top priority if you want to scale.
Re: Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab
#163funk yes!
Re: Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab
#164What 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.
> but haven’t figured out the best way to do that...
The best way is whatever the musician has available and is comfortable sharing. Allow any of the embeddings or ability to upload a clip you’ll host. Start with the easiest and ping your subscribers each time you add another one.
Re: Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab
#165What a dumb app
Found the guitarist
Re: Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab
#166Neat idea but the musician directory seems buggy. After scrolling once through a few musicians I can’t seem to return to them. Eventually the entire list disappears and I get a “no musicians in your area” message. No documentation, user guide, or support that I could find. It would be cool to see this working or to understand how to use it… i’m an amateur musician who has thought of looking for others to jam with.
Re: Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab
#167Would 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.
IMO English only is better than nothing, support can always be added later. I live in Finland and guess the probability of translation to Finnish is somewhere on the order of 0.1%. It’s also not really needed since a large majority of people here under the age of 50 speak English pretty well.
Re: Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab
#168Installed 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.
That is fair, I may have copied the tinder model too literally.
I disagree. People on HN won't even signup for Twitter because "reasons". I think gate keeping finicky people is fine, you should at least A/B test how likely you can encourage registration because building initial network effect for something like this is crucial.
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#169I play guitar - never played live with any group. Has anyone played in a "virtual band" does that even work or does the latency kill it?
Having a backing track is a great way to practice. You can replay the tune over and over to practice, the band 'members' never get tired...ever. Being able to program/ write backing tracks (on computer) is a sneaky way of getting into programming too (editing vsts etc).