I find that the more music creation and distribution is gamified, the less gratifying it is for me. Discovery of the music and people who share your distinct musical passions is such and important part of the process of enjoying music and it's creation. On first look I thought, interesting, why would they go ruin the best (if also one of the more frustrating) parts of music creation. No thanks, too derivative and solving a problem in a way that feels icky to me.
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
#182What 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…
This is the same problem that every modern dating site seems to have after they copied Tinder.
Swipe left - I never want to see this person again!
Swipe right - I must contact this person right now!
What happened to the idea of curating a list of interesting people who I may or may not want to meet right this moment, but I would like to make a list that I can refer to later?
Just look at OkCupid for what a disaster this turns into. I see an interesting young lady, but it may be late at night (like 2AM my time right now).
I would like to put her on my personal list of someone I may want to contact at a more reasonable hour, and after I've had a chance to read her profile more thoroughly.
My only choices are to swipe left and forget her forever, or swipe right and send her a "like" and I'd better send her a message right now!
Maybe there are a few young ladies I may be interested in contacting.
Why doesn't the site let me make a list of them?
I did finally figure out a hack. If I click the little "down arrow" at the bottom of the main page, it takes me to her profile. Then I can use the "share" link in Chrome to create a draft in Gmail with a link to her profile!
I have a lot of drafts now.
This really sucks. If you are a dating site, just let me make a list of the profiles of interesting young ladies!
The same applies to a site for musicians I may want to contact to play music with.
Re: Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab
#183Cool idea, but I'm not giving you my location. Please allow me to select a city manually.
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.
I think asking for location is perfectly sensible and the right thing to do. Track how many people say no, but if the opt out rate is too high, work on the wording to increase the rate before you allow manually entering a city.
Re: Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab
#184Earlier 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.
What if I'm not in the location I care about? Musicians are famously people who are often on the road.
Great premium feature. Like on Tinder. Put location choice behind a paywall; keeps fake profiles out, too.
Re: Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab
#185I 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…
Why does swiping make it worse? Is there a better alternative?
The swipe feature, while familiar to users, may not be the most efficient way for musicians to connect and form bands. A UX that allows creating a band and receive applications could prove more effective, then perhaps you can use the swipe to accept or reject them into your band.
Re: Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab
#186Lovely! When will this roll out in the EU?
Re: Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab
#187Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Same for the Netherlands. Fun fact: a majority of Dutch people prefers to have their apps in English.
Re: Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab
#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why does swiping make it worse? Is there a better alternative?
Why not just list everyone... tables and filters for the end user
You give up on a lot of data you could otherwise have collected by doing that, data which could have helped the product in other ways.
Re: Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab
#189Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I agree with this, don't get too bogged down by what people here think, focus on your target audience. This is the crowd that would have passed on Dropbox because it's so easy just to use rsync.
Re: Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab
#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
Keep in mind the privacy concerns of the HN are significantly higher than for normal people. It might not be much of an issue at all.
That said, one thing that is useful with being able to select a city is that it would allow me to browse my home city when I'm abroad, or look for people to play with while I'm traveling.
Tinder offers this as a premium feature.