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I am in the U.K - Milton Keynes, which is less than an hour from London. I dabble but I am no hacker by any means. I do however design software for a living and I am looking for a hacker co-founder for a startup. So if anyone is interested, do get in touch - initially by reply here and we'll take it from there.
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Thanks man! Hope to meet you in person soon. What do you think of our recommendations right now? We're taking a different approach to the 2 most popular paradigms: collaborative filtering on your userbase (e.g. Last.fm) or expert hand labeling (e.g. Pandora). Instead we consider any implicit or explicit relationship between two artists expressed on the web as a data point for our recommendation engine to analyse. Thi…
I had a look around the artists pages; the recommendations are good, each set seems fairly solid with mostly nothing too irrelevant, the main associations I would expect are generally there, the results seem fairly consistent across genres, and pretty good for niche/non-mainstream bands too. If this is all hand-rolled from web crawling and that sort of thing, rather impressive! A couple of thoughts/ideas: It'd be goo…
We're also going to make the recommendations much more tour focused as you suggest. The goal is to really separate the signal out from the noise so you know which of the hundreds of small gigs going on are most likely to interest you.
We're also going to have user preferences for the recommendations (particularly how obscure you want them to be and whether you only want to see artists on tour. RIP B.I.G.)
Really interested to talk more at the hacker meetup. I've got a ton of emails so should be a good group.
Hi, ian here from Songkick (YC summer '07 batch). We're based in East London. If you're UK based get in touch - can introduce you to other hackers in the UK doing/interested in start-ups. We'll organise some drinks soon. You can reach us at founders at songkick dot com.
Gordon from Project Playfair (now hypernumbers.com) - we met at Seedcamp...
We have an alpha SDK out at the moment - we should show it to you before I head back to Scotland in a couple of weeks...
Just used Songkick - stuck in an obscure artiste and it turns out he's playing in Edinburgh 2 weeks after I get home - you seem to be serving some tasty dogfood there son...
Drop us a line at gordon blah-blah hypernumbers.com
Gordon
Hypernumbers.com just gone into alpha...
Linlithgow/Edinburgh
I'm scraping something together in Edinburgh.
gordon blah-blah hypernumbers dot com
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I had a look around the artists pages; the recommendations are good, each set seems fairly solid with mostly nothing too irrelevant, the main associations I would expect are generally there, the results seem fairly consistent across genres, and pretty good for niche/non-mainstream bands too. If this is all hand-rolled from web crawling and that sort of thing, rather impressive! A couple of thoughts/ideas: It'd be goo…
Thanks very much for your feedback man. We're aware of the issue that occurs with a few bands (e.g. Underworld) and are fixing that. Imagine my horror when I was listening to one of my favourite London producers Burial and got recommended bands like Grave, Funeral, Resurrection. That'll be fixed soon. We're also going to make the recommendations much more tour focused as you suggest. The goal is to really separate th…
You'll like this;
I've been in talks with a London-based investor. At the end of one of our meetings, the investor was checking his emails and pulled-up the Songkick powerpoint via an angel network they'd signed-up to! Then the following week you guys hit TechCrunch! That was pretty exciting and inspirational for me!
I'm eager to meet some fellow founders & hackers - so I've got to make OCC London and these hacker meetups...
Hey, i hope the sponsors of this site don't mind me offering help to anyone interested in building an international software brand. I was the development director at Codemasters and built and sold M$$$$$$$$$ software brands with hackers. I'm a follower of master hacker Paul Graham...see me....www.cibermole.com. Kent/England.