Thank you for this :) It is sometimes hard to connect with new people and stand out. Created my account and posted my stuff as Psy Conversion !
EDIT : I liked the sign up experience, that was really quick, kudos for that !
Next Big Thing, a HN-like site for music content
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Re: Next Big Thing, a HN-like site for music content
#42The problem with this is most people have bad taste in music.
From your POV ;)
What I see as a problem is that it's probably going to become (if it gets really big) a copy of mainstream charts or (if a a genre group becomes the majority) only have music for that genre and related genres.
I wish them the best of luck but I personally don't see a future.
Re: Next Big Thing, a HN-like site for music content
#43What is the value add over hypem or r/music?
Or don't forget http://www.radioreddit.com which is for independent musicians.
Disclosure: I developed their Android app.
Re: Next Big Thing, a HN-like site for music content
#44Site got mentioned a few places and is currently down from traffic. In the post I do mention that you can do the same thing with reddit or following a ton of music related twitter accounts, but the voting and input from different people. We're not doing anything new, but I do think the presentation and appeal is there for nbt. If you are interested, bookmark the link, it should be up again shortly.
A nice touch might be if voting reordered the site's RSS feed as well as the webpage. If you have a way to generate a podcast from submitted music, that could be a great combination. I have a lot of trouble following HN through an rss reader because the filter is so much worse, but there's no reason the .xml file should be in any different order than the html file. And podcasts have even worse navigation options than other rss feeds.
This would probably not work with PuSH. But two separate feeds, one for PuSH and one that gives a voting-ordered snapshot when it's fetched, might let you target both the very-frequent and the casual users.
(haven't been able to check out the site yet, so this point might be extra ignorant)
Re: Next Big Thing, a HN-like site for music content
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree. Labelling music is one thing, but outright censorship will ensure your project never takes off. However, after looking at your site, I don't get it. I thought the music would be embedded in the page itself. Also, you have music and news/editorial links on the same page. What's more there's no tagging/categorization so I have no way of filtering music to my tastes. The site looks slick and you deserve kudos f…
Twitter censors, Facebook censors, Hacker News censors, and they took off. I can support my argument. Can you with yours?
None of them censor music to my knowledge
Re: Next Big Thing, a HN-like site for music content
#46Being middle aged and not particularly into music I'm surprised to find I'm already aware of most of the 'next big things' on the front page. I don't think this is a good sign.
Re: Next Big Thing, a HN-like site for music content
#47Looks good so far - I've already discovered some great sounding bands.
Just a few suggestions:
* When you vote, the arrow should disappear. Instead, it just pops a notification saying you can't vote again - but there's no easy way to determine which songs you've voted on.
* It would be great to see a page of links you've upvoted so you can refer back to songs you liked.
Edit to add...
* A way to exclude domains you can't use (e.g. Spotify, which is unavailable in some countries).
* There's no need for the site to auto-scroll to the top of the page and display a Thank You message every time you vote.
Re: Next Big Thing, a HN-like site for music content
#48Looks good so far - I've already discovered some great sounding bands. Just a few suggestions: * When you vote, the arrow should disappear. Instead, it just pops a notification saying you can't vote again - but there's no easy way to determine which songs you've voted on. * It would be great to see a page of links you've upvoted so you can refer back to songs you liked. Edit to add... * A way to exclude domains you c…
Thanks for the feedback Ryan, appreciate it!
Re: Next Big Thing, a HN-like site for music content
#49Site got mentioned a few places and is currently down from traffic. In the post I do mention that you can do the same thing with reddit or following a ton of music related twitter accounts, but the voting and input from different people. We're not doing anything new, but I do think the presentation and appeal is there for nbt. If you are interested, bookmark the link, it should be up again shortly.
A nice touch might be if voting reordered the site's RSS feed as well as the webpage. If you have a way to generate a podcast from submitted music, that could be a great combination. I have a lot of trouble following HN through an rss reader because the filter is so much worse, but there's no reason the .xml file should be in any different order than the html file. And podcasts have even worse navigation options than…
The site does do this :)
Re: Next Big Thing, a HN-like site for music content
#50Is there an open source version of HN anywhere?
When I developed NBT, I started with this: https://github.com/phil303/hacker-news-clone and then modified it beyond recognition :)