Yeah, we have Amazon affiliate links set up so we get a little share of the purchases. There's ad/sponsorship possibilities and a couple other ones we're exploring.
This is really cool. It is the first Show HN I've immediately added to my favorites and sent over to non-technical friends. Also I'm glad you found a good way to monetize without adspamming the crap out of the sidebars. To echo above, really cool execution.
I see this working very well if it is possible to create sub-upbeats, especially for groups of friends. A big general one is hard in the context of music. Good interface btw.
One UI request however. Put the music controls above the comments section immediately below the album art or above the album art. The bottom right is like a ghost town when you're looking for a control (at least for me, took me a bit to notice them down there).
First of all great job guys. The website looks really good even better than HN. One thing I dislike is the scroll bar in the middle. It makes navigation a bit cumbersome in my opinion.
I see you are using redis! It would be great if you could share some details about your usage like how much memory your app uses and what are your costs associated with it.
Our redis instance is pretty tiny (~10mb) and we haven't had any issues thus far. The performance has been outstanding and we have only used a small fraction of our capacity.
I like that this will allow me to try to promote my music in a way that doesn't feel so spammy. If people don't like it, it won't get any visibility, and I won't have to feel like I'm bothering people.
A bit of feedback: people's submissions should default with 1 upvote(ala Reddit).
Thanks! You can submit any song from Soundcloud at the moment (they can be yours if you'd like), and we'll be adding more sources soon. We'll work on making the submit form more clear, good feedback.
Ahhh sorry. It appears that after submission I was on the New page, with my track at the top. When I clicked away I was back on the Hot page. I thought it was a different algorithm where there's only one page, and new stuff starts at the top and drops away very quickly unless it is upvoted, something you sometimes see on other sites. So I assumed it was deleted. Silly me.
So, in conclusion, you need to make the Hot/New link stand out more.
EDIT: I'll tell you what happened: the Hot/New page doesn't touch the history stack, so when I hit refresh, expecting to be in the same place, my track had vanished.
Ironically of course the refresh was probably pointless, everything's all websockets these days.
We stream all of the songs via Soundcloud API, so its not really any different than a blog posting a song their site. If an artist wants a song removed though, we do have a channel set up to request removal.
Your are still liable for copyright infrigement, wherever your music comes from.
- so its not really any different than a blog posting a song their site.
And that's totally illegal since the owner usually doesnt give you the permission to do so. Did Grant Lee Buffalo label or Placebo label gave you the permission to broadcast their music ? Your host can shut down your website directly without warning following a DMCA takedown notice,if it is a US business.
Firefox unfortunately doesn't support Soundcloud's stream types, so we're working on some fallbacks at the moment. Thanks for feedback though, we're working on make it compatible with as many browsers as possible. Works perfectly on Chrome and Safari currently.
What I never could wrap my head around is how to monetize it without using ads all over.
I see you are using "Buy on amazon". Is this giving you a share of the profit?
Anyway, great job!