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Copy imgur. Don't require a title, description, tags and all that. Don't even put it there, it just makes it seem too complicated. Copy imgur's flow exactly. Ma

by staunch 17y ago

Copy imgur. Don't require a title, description, tags and all that. Don't even put it there, it just makes it seem too complicated. Copy imgur's flow exactly. Make it a simple front page. Give back a URL. Don't bother with browse and all that, at least not until you've got a lot of recordings. Change the URL. soundkey.com/key=so9m6u is lame, make it soundkey.com/so9m6u No one needs an account. Don't even let people register yet. Honestly though. I'd give up. People really want to upload videos and they really want to upload images. The number of people that want to record a sound is far far smaller. This is not likely to ever be all that popular. I'd turn it into a much simpler site, then stop thinking about it. Chalk it up as good experience, and then work on something else.

coryl 17y ago
This was my sentiments as well. The market for sharing sounds just isn't popular imo. Adapt the site to mobile video and try to figure that out perhaps?
sendos 16y ago
Thanks for the frank feedback. Maybe in its current form it doesn't have much of a future. When this all started, my grand vision was the following: Imagine that soundkeys are common-knowledge and familiar to everyone. Then, you could have soundkeys on wine bottles, menus, in magazine articles, books, business cards, basically anywhere. Anyone can take their smart phone and take a picture of the soundkey (or enter it manually), and instantly know how to say the name of the wine, how to pronounce the items on the menu of some French restaurant, how a bird mentioned in the magazine sounds, how a car explosion in Iraq mentioned in the book sounds, how a potential client's name sounds, etc. It would bring alive static pieces of paper (like menus, books, magazines, business cards, etc) : You see a soundkey anywhere and you know that you can hear a sound related to that thing. So, to start things off, I started the website. Maybe instead of focusing on consumers, I could focus on talking to companies to start incorporating this into their products, books, etc. Of course, there needs to be a general awareness of soundkeys before companies use them, so there is a chicken-and-egg thing that needs to be addressed and which I thought that a consumer-facing website (i.e. soundkey.com) could address if it became popular.
- staunch 16y ago
  What makes you think people want a soundkey on their business card, magazine, or restaurant menu? I'm guessing almost no one really does, even if they also agree its a neat idea. I understand how easy it is to convince yourself that a neat idea is a great business idea. That's what it seems like you're doing.
  - sendos 16y ago
    If you don't mind my asking, is your name easy or difficult to pronounce? [In my talking to people, I have found, statistically, that people with easy names (e.g. Bill Smith) think there is no demand for this service, and people who either have difficult names or work with lots of people with difficult/foreign names tend to think that this is useful and that there is demand for it. Also, people who deal all the time with customers (e.g. sales people, realtors, etc) tend to think there is a lot of demand for it among their colleagues. Of course they could be wrong. And even if they are right, this may not be a good business idea. But I have seen sufficiently high levels of interest in the idea, which is why I got started on this]
    - staunch 16y ago
      My name is definitely easy to pronounce.

by staunch 17y ago

coryl 17y ago

This was my sentiments as well. The market for sharing sounds just isn't popular imo. Adapt the site to mobile video and try to figure that out perhaps?

sendos 16y ago

Thanks for the frank feedback. Maybe in its current form it doesn't have much of a future. When this all started, my grand vision was the following: Imagine that soundkeys are common-knowledge and familiar to everyone. Then, you could have soundkeys on wine bottles, menus, in magazine articles, books, business cards, basically anywhere. Anyone can take their smart phone and take a picture of the soundkey (or enter it manually), and instantly know how to say the name of the wine, how to pronounce the items on the menu of some French restaurant, how a bird mentioned in the magazine sounds, how a car explosion in Iraq mentioned in the book sounds, how a potential client's name sounds, etc. It would bring alive static pieces of paper (like menus, books, magazines, business cards, etc) : You see a soundkey anywhere and you know that you can hear a sound related to that thing. So, to start things off, I started the website. Maybe instead of focusing on consumers, I could focus on talking to companies to start incorporating this into their products, books, etc. Of course, there needs to be a general awareness of soundkeys before companies use them, so there is a chicken-and-egg thing that needs to be addressed and which I thought that a consumer-facing website (i.e. soundkey.com) could address if it became popular.

staunch 16y ago
What makes you think people want a soundkey on their business card, magazine, or restaurant menu? I'm guessing almost no one really does, even if they also agree its a neat idea. I understand how easy it is to convince yourself that a neat idea is a great business idea. That's what it seems like you're doing.
- sendos 16y ago
  If you don't mind my asking, is your name easy or difficult to pronounce? [In my talking to people, I have found, statistically, that people with easy names (e.g. Bill Smith) think there is no demand for this service, and people who either have difficult names or work with lots of people with difficult/foreign names tend to think that this is useful and that there is demand for it. Also, people who deal all the time with customers (e.g. sales people, realtors, etc) tend to think there is a lot of demand for it among their colleagues. Of course they could be wrong. And even if they are right, this may not be a good business idea. But I have seen sufficiently high levels of interest in the idea, which is why I got started on this]
  - staunch 16y ago
    My name is definitely easy to pronounce.