Show HN: Wavo.me - A social network for music to take on Spotify and iTunes.
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Re: Show HN: Wavo.me - A social network for music to take on Spotify and iTunes.
#2I’m one of the co-founders and just wanted to give a bit more info on what we’re trying to do with wavo.me. We’re artists, bloggers, event organizers and fans. We’ve felt for some time that existing services are missing key parts of the music experience. A truly excellent music service should connect artists, bloggers, labels and fans together. It should create a community that encourages discovery and dialogue. Wavo.me is our attempt to create a social network for music.
We’ve started with a service similar to Pinterest -- A simple and beautiful way to discover, collect and share music with friends.
It’s a big project. We’re at the very beginning and we’d love your feedback.
(FYI, you can only sign up with Facebook right now... We know, we know... alternative ways of signing in are coming, along with a mobile version)
Re: Show HN: Wavo.me - A social network for music to take on Spotify and iTunes.
#3This looks really interesting, but to be completely honest, I lost all interest once I saw that there was no other option but to sign up with Facebook.
As a developer, I understand the business and UX need for it, but it still manages to turn me away from really interesting services. It looks like you're looking to improve on this pain-point, so I'll definitely check this out later. :)
I'd also love it if the About page was on your own site as well. Linking to the Facebook app page feels like you were a little rushed.
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#4The UI is gorgeous; well done there.
Re: Show HN: Wavo.me - A social network for music to take on Spotify and iTunes.
#5This looks really interesting, but to be completely honest, I lost all interest once I saw that there was no other option but to sign up with Facebook. As a developer, I understand the business and UX need for it, but it still manages to turn me away from really interesting services. It looks like you're looking to improve on this pain-point, so I'll definitely check this out later. :) I'd also love it if the About p…
Hey borgopants -- I'm one of the devs at wavo.
We've gotten the same feedback from several people, and we know it's a priority. Artists and labels, in particular, have asked for non-Facebook login methods. It's on its way, promise. We just haven't quite made it there yet.
Re: Show HN: Wavo.me - A social network for music to take on Spotify and iTunes.
#6The UI is gorgeous; well done there.
Thanks, really glad you like it! We've spent a ton of time on the interface. (You would not believe the amount of UI we've designed, thrown away, redesigned, and thrown away again)
Re: Show HN: Wavo.me - A social network for music to take on Spotify and iTunes.
#7FYI for anyone else running Ghostery: you have to disable it to get the site to load at all. Seems to get stuck in a permanent "loading" loop if it doesn't detect the FB social plugin script.
Developers: if you care about privacy-conscious users, you may want to fix that.
Re: Show HN: Wavo.me - A social network for music to take on Spotify and iTunes.
#8FYI for anyone else running Ghostery: you have to disable it to get the site to load at all. Seems to get stuck in a permanent "loading" loop if it doesn't detect the FB social plugin script. Developers: if you care about privacy-conscious users, you may want to fix that.
Ah, interesting! Thanks for letting us know, we're looking into that right now.
Regarding Facebook, we do require Facebook to login (as mentioned elsewhere, we're going to add other ways to log in soon) and we require the Facebook SDK for some of our social stuff. That said, we should handle this better - we shouldn't get stuck in a permanent loading loop!
Re: Show HN: Wavo.me - A social network for music to take on Spotify and iTunes.
#9This looks really interesting, but to be completely honest, I lost all interest once I saw that there was no other option but to sign up with Facebook. As a developer, I understand the business and UX need for it, but it still manages to turn me away from really interesting services. It looks like you're looking to improve on this pain-point, so I'll definitely check this out later. :) I'd also love it if the About p…
This is my hold up too. I left Spotify to get away from Facebook.
Re: Show HN: Wavo.me - A social network for music to take on Spotify and iTunes.
#10Well done! This is awesome - such a nice UX :)