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The Feel Good Initiative. Discover new music daily.
- andr 19y agoThe result of about 20 days of exploratory programming. We didn't really know where we were going in the beginning. Things to check out: tagging (I like this song), posting your own music, the podcast (my favorite), other tidbits. Note: I submitted The Feel Good back in February but it was a totally different site, so this is not a dupe.
- jsjenkins168 19y agoMaking your logo a bit prominent will make your brand more easily identifiable. As it is right now, I searched the page but couldn't really determine what was the logo.
- zabravih 19y agoI actually like the way you've done the logo - meshing it with the slogan and all. You've given it a very upstream look - the logo, like the site itself, is laid out quite unconventionally. Now, I hope this was on purpose, yes? ;D
- sant0sk1 19y agoI love the "instant on" feel of this app. Just press play. Very cool. The fact that you don't instantly force a registration page on a potential user will help attract the BugMeNot types who would otherwise move on.
- andr 19y agoYes, that was one of our key goals. You can even tag music and organize playlists without registering. You only need to register if you want to post music or save your favorites/tags (they are stored in cookies for guests).
- chrisbroadfoot 19y agoReminds me of Pandora. I don't like the fact that the music stops when I click to go into comments Sorry... however, I do like it, and everything seems nicely executed
- andr 19y agoThat's high on the todo list. Look for it today or tomorrow.
- chrisbroadfoot 19y agoAwesome. Well, it's bookmarked. I'll visit again in a month or so
- Prrometheus 19y agoI love these guys. They think of everything and they make a great product. I loved the original feel good, and I love the new one too. Congrats on the [re]launch!
- blinks 19y agoFinally, a You Tube for audio. I've been waiting for something like this for some time -- sites like http://virb.com/ http://virb.com/ are nice, but revolve around the album, which isn't usually how an indie artist really writes. Now I can put things up as I work on them, which'll be cool. -- http://thefeelgood.com/blinks http://thefeelgood.com/blinks
- hhm 19y agoYes, a YouTube for audio. I was waiting for it for ages... why didn't anybody did it before? I think this idea & implementation has magic; in other words, it's a winner.
- Prrometheus 19y agoCan I play a continuous stream of music from just the channels I follow, preferably with forward/back/pause options?
- andr 19y agoYes, in your Podcast page. Currently it goes 3 days back, but we are thinking about expanding that or turning it into a river.
- marrone 19y agonice, I love last.fm for this exact reason. I use that site the way you guys are promoting this one. Skip a song or say you like it and eventually it learns what to recommend. I will keep my eye on this one
- mynameishere 19y agoNice, easy-to-use website, but what awful music. I'll stick to the classics, thanks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_Tf2lQvDz0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_Tf2lQvDz0
- andr 19y agolol, well that's the idea. post the music you like
- spydez 19y agoBlocked by my IT department already... Ya'll may be on to something. ;)
- wave 19y agoSuggestion: On your sign up page, I think you should make it simple by just asking username and password. Since you are just launching, your sign up page should be very simple. See http://anywhere.fm http://anywhere.fm
- Prrometheus 19y agoIt’s hard to figure out how to follow a channel vs. how to favorite a song. I notice that if I favorite a song I start to follow the channel automatically. Also, I’ve mentioned it before, but I would like affiliate links. I’d like to buy music from some of the new artists I’ve found through the site, but I am too lazy to look them up on Amazon/ iTunes
- andr 19y agoAffiliate links are now live on the comments page. 6 minutes turnaround :) The philosophy of following vs favorites is that we automatically pick the channels you follow based on which ones you like the most songs from. It will work for the majority of the users. More "likes" = stronger relationship. However, the podcast is only limited to 20 songs per day for the channels with the strongest relationship, so only the minority of power users that have more than 20 songs a day will need to explicitly follow a channel or another to keep it in the podcast. But you are right, we need to communicate this better.
- as 19y agoWhat are the copyright issues you're dealing with?
- scorxn 19y agoHow about an embeddable mini-player? The src could be per-song, per-channel, or just "Featured Music." I bet a lot of people (myself included) would love this for their blogs. Then it becomes a functional ad for your site.
- andr 19y agoWe are actually working on this feature right now :)
- scorxn 19y agoAnother idea: A narrow, vertical interface for loading in Firefox's sidebar. Makes it easier to keep the player open while you browse elsewhere.
- lastone 19y agothe browser is not the desktop oh right, micro$oft invented the desktop, we cant let them control our minds
- maximilian 19y agoHow does this site not violate copyright law? I love the idea, but as it is, I feel like a nasty letter from the RIAA is being carried by a postman still wet from the tongue of some RIAA lawyer. Anyway, don't let that set you back. It seems great.
- kingnothing 19y agoWhere is all of the music from?
- andr 19y agoother users
- sfg 19y agoLiked it straight away. Long time last.fm user and yet have never used their site to listen to music in the way I used this. Do you host the music shared via the share good music feature? What on earth is going on copyright wise?
- rob 19y agoWhat language did you make it in?
- andr 19y agomy homegrown PHP framework
- pchristensen 19y agoWell now I have a counterexample for when people say PHP sucks :). I think your site looks and works great and it just goes to show that great hackers can always do great things.
- andr 19y agoThe advantage of writing your own framework: $ ab -c 5 -n 5000 http://thefeelgood.com/explore [...] Requests per second: 784.50 [#/sec] (mean) [...] Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms) 50% 4 66% 4 75% 4 80% 5 90% 12 95% 13 98% 22 99% 40 100% 40 (longest request) That's running on a 1/2GB Joyent accelerator.
- hernan7 19y agoA volume control and/or some type of compression/limiting would be useful.