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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 arrowsmith »

VoodooJuJu wrote: post #115

I think this would be awesome as a normal search classifieds kind of thing, not as a Tinder thing. Tinder's selling point isn't the swiping mechanism itself, but that it's taking something publicly taboo, harem culture, and enabling it by taking it private, with a discrete, subtle, and low-stakes mechanism for participating in that culture. There's nothing to hide when it comes to finding musicians to jam with, so th…

There are already tons of "find a bandmate" classified ads sites that work exactly like you describe. E.g. https://bandmix.co.uk/

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

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Post by lloeki »

Nevermark wrote: post #178
Angostura wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which language do you think is most popular in the UK? :)

Not American! We apologize for the inconvenience, but unfortunately, our specialized app is not authorized to operate or cash checks from your financial center due to a catalog of regionalized legal financial terminology, and therefore, we cannot fulfill a properly personalized vernacular experience. Unfortunately, this language barrier also prohibits any user dialog about future support for your neighborhood . See y…

My tongue in cheek take :)

https://ibb.co/8DGyTyK

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

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Post by onion2k »

unixhero wrote: post #173
colonwqbang wrote: post #171

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Why does swiping make it worse? Is there a better alternative?

Why not just list everyone... tables and filters for the end user

Filters are useful to narrow a list but they're useless for actually recording a decision against each item in the set. They're just not a mechanic for assigning a (boolean) value. Swiping is, and that's what's happening here.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

ajakate wrote: post #4

I 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…

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

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Post by Kiro »

pg5 wrote: post #109
arnorhs wrote: post #102

Would 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.

> I didn't want to release the app without proper translations for the target countries.

Not a valid reason. No-one in my country cares whether an app is translated or not. In fact, I find it kind of patronizing that you feel the need to shelter us like that. I always set the language to English even if the app has first-class translations.

> I haven't yet implemented the feature to toggle off "local-only" artists.

That's a valid reason.

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

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Post by chillingeffect »

financetechbro wrote: post #94
pg5 wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

A neat idea would be to have “projects.” Each account/profile has a default/personal “project,” meaning a contained instance of matching. But they’re also able to create additional “projects.” So if someone wants to look for a match for a specific project or a new band they can create a new project and swipe across all accounts. Would be cool to set up filters when creating a project, so that the options to swipe are…

Love this! Bc my various music styles are very different!

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

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Post by leadguit »

Make sure you check the name - there is a website called bandmatch already, which is a somewhat established platform (granted, it's I think only for DACH meaning: Switzerland (primarily), Austria, Germany, and is a traditional blackboard style site, but naming conflicts are never fun). Unless your affiliated with them of course: https://www.bandmatch.ch
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