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SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices

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Post by pingpongpung »

agilildo wrote: post #357
thowaway999 wrote: post #185

I was a director of an engineering department for SoundCloud for a time and left several years ago. Frankly none of this should be surprising: nobody there could figure out a product definition nor a monetization plan. What is more: the engineering organization at SoundCloud at large was completely fractured and suffered from in-fighting. Nobody trusted anyone across organizations. There was no shortage of bullying e…

Digital Ocean was smart to cut this short (the flock of brazilians from SoundCloud migrated there). Not all brazilians are like this tho - only the agilists.

Why were they smart to cut that short? What was wrong with those specific group?

Re: SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices

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Post by pingpongpung »

thowaway99999 wrote: post #213
thowaway9999 wrote: post #203

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follow the money: http://philcalcado.com/2017/06/26/on_leaving_digitalocean.ht...

As they say in the German, der Fisch stinkt vom Kopf her (a fish rots from the head down). This man bears a tremendous amount of responsibility for everything described above.

I'm really curious to understand why a single person was responsible for a big failure. That sounded a bit personal.

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thowaway999 wrote: post #185

I was a director of an engineering department for SoundCloud for a time and left several years ago. Frankly none of this should be surprising: nobody there could figure out a product definition nor a monetization plan. What is more: the engineering organization at SoundCloud at large was completely fractured and suffered from in-fighting. Nobody trusted anyone across organizations. There was no shortage of bullying e…

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Re: SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices

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rorykoehler wrote: post #381
imhelpingu wrote: post #316

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It's not the artists who are struggling, it's the platform. By your logic, I'm oppressing Youtube creators because I didn't buy Youtube Red. In terms of artists posting on Soundcloud, the fact that there's any demand for Soundcloud at all pretty much torpedoes this entire worldview you're espousing. It is extremely common for artists to simply give away mixtapes on Soundcloud. When/if Soundcloud is gone, those same a…

I take it you've never had to buy pro-audio equipment?

The capital investment required to make music these days essentially negligible unless your heart is set on setting up a studio so you can have a band like it's the 1980s.

Re: SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices

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Post by cyphunk »

brodock wrote: post #449
legohead wrote: post #291

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I was aware of that, but if a company fails to understand it's users' needs, I don't have much faith in them, so I just move on to something else.

Not to mention that the limitation in the API usage made the soundnode app useless, as it hits the API limit in a few hours of use. They are failing not to provide an alternative and to prevent you from using an alternative.

Is the API dependent on popularity of songs you listen to? Because I find I dont hit limit until a whole day of use (4 to 6 hours) but guessing this could be because I don't have much popular music in my queue. I ask because I notice that now they introduced advertisements but these also only come up on songs with over 60k plays
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