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I have a question though. How are you ever going to compete to Bandcamp? From what I read, the services sound very similar, except Bandcamp does it all (well, almost all) for free. Plus a lot of artists and consumers are already familiar with Bandcamp, it's pretty much the go-to website unsigned indie artists put their stuff up (either as a free download or paid download).
Some initial feedback on the site's layout:
- The layout breaks at medium and narrow widths, particularly the home and FAQ pages
- Looks enough like Rdio that I feel compelled to mention it here
Good luck!
I couldn't find an example of an artist page, so it's hard for me to evaluate. I have a question though. How are you ever going to compete to Bandcamp? From what I read, the services sound very similar, except Bandcamp does it all (well, almost all) for free. Plus a lot of artists and consumers are already familiar with Bandcamp, it's pretty much the go-to website unsigned indie artists put their stuff up (either as…
How will we ever compete? We obviously won't be able to match them feature for feature at this point -- we're just two guys working on this in our spare time.
But I think our positioning is a little different. Plus, both of us have years of experience music blogging so we'll lean on our networks of artists we're in contact with to hopefully drive some initial sing-ups and get some momentum.
We have dreams of being the go-to service for this kind of stuff, but we know it's going to be awhile before we get there.
I understand that you're targeting musicians, but to whom will you sell and distribute their music? The site doesn't currently mention or appeal to listeners. You probably don't (yet) have a lot of music to promote, but a quick visit to Beatport shows what type of attention is paid to audience and content. Some initial feedback on the site's layout: - The layout breaks at medium and narrow widths, particularly the ho…
Once our content library starts to build up, we'll hopefully transition to a more listener-driven public site. Thanks for the feedback!
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As far as the branding goes, MVSIC reminds me of a minimal Bandcamp and I assume the whole V thing is taken directly from Svpply? Now, I'm sure this will resonate with the artist, but the problem you have is the same problem faced by many sites I've seen before. It's partly a branding issue (on the front page, all I see is a globe) and a distribution issue. Do I have to post a link to mvsic somewhere in order to get…
Thanks for the feedback. To answer some of your points: I think our goal is to one day drive our own traffic to an artist's music. Have people coming to the site and clicking around to find stuff. But in the near term, we can't promise we'll drive any of our own traffic to the artist, so we're relying on the artist to spread it. The other thing people have seemed to love is the concept of real-time stats similar to G…
I understand that you're targeting musicians, but to whom will you sell and distribute their music? The site doesn't currently mention or appeal to listeners. You probably don't (yet) have a lot of music to promote, but a quick visit to Beatport shows what type of attention is paid to audience and content. Some initial feedback on the site's layout: - The layout breaks at medium and narrow widths, particularly the ho…
As we move forward, we do plan on using Mvsic as a way for listeners to not only download, but also discover, new music. Hartley and I are both in the music blogging scene, and we're really excited to work with bloggers to figure out how they can use our service and players to make their sites even better.
I couldn't find an example of an artist page, so it's hard for me to evaluate. I have a question though. How are you ever going to compete to Bandcamp? From what I read, the services sound very similar, except Bandcamp does it all (well, almost all) for free. Plus a lot of artists and consumers are already familiar with Bandcamp, it's pretty much the go-to website unsigned indie artists put their stuff up (either as…
For example, Bandcamp makes their revenue by taking a % off of all music sales. For this reason, they only let artists give away a certain number of tracks for free (at which point they make artists pay to give away their music for free).
That makes sense for Bandcamp, we understand. For Mvsic, we think that free music is a lot more valuable to indie artists who are looking to get their foot in the door, and we're all about supporting unlimited downloading (and selling!)
Thanks for your feedback though, we'll keep working!
Google Chrome 23.0.1262.0 (Official Build 155673) dev / OS Linux
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Thanks for the feedback. To answer some of your points: I think our goal is to one day drive our own traffic to an artist's music. Have people coming to the site and clicking around to find stuff. But in the near term, we can't promise we'll drive any of our own traffic to the artist, so we're relying on the artist to spread it. The other thing people have seemed to love is the concept of real-time stats similar to G…
Sounds awesome! I'll talk to the rest of the band about signing up with you guys.
Here's what your site looks like to me: http://i.imgur.com/frnJd.png Google Chrome 23.0.1262.0 (Official Build 155673) dev / OS Linux
This is how it should look, by the way: http://imgur.com/wt9kC
