I'd like to add a little bit to this discussion. Disclaimer: I wrote most of the site's code and worked extensively with Mark for the past few months. To start

I'd like to add a little bit to this discussion. Disclaimer: I wrote most of the site's code and worked extensively with Mark for the past few months. To start, Mark is a great co-founder. He doesn't code, but he always has a strong vision about the product. Yes, at first I thought that a visionary co-founder was a glorified way of saying over-zealous MBA, but Mark has the ability to see both the forest and the trees when it comes to building a product and developing software on a constrained schedule. The two of us worked extensively on the product, building and scaling it from a simple flatpage app to something that appealed to college kids around the US while handling 22 concurrent req/sec. I left FratMusic for two reasons. First, I didn't have enough time to dedicate to developing the site. Second, I was concerned with some of the legal issues that the site could be facing. Despite this, I know Mark has been working diligently to find a way to make the site work. If I had more time, I definitely would have stuck with the project. Technically, the site is pretty fun. I wrote it all in Django and it comes with some interesting problems, both tech and systems. From a technical perspective, I spent a fair bit of time trying to better recommend music to users, and to A/B test purchasing avenues through iTMS and Amazon. From a systems perspective, the site has a grown a lot. Last semester, we were doubling our slice's ram just about every three weeks. We switched from Apache to nginx and are now running in a full MySQL / python / fcgi / nginx / memcached environment. There are a lot of fun challenges in there to. FratMusic is a household name on a lot of college campuses. Here's a twitter search: http://twitter.com/search?q=fratmusic http://twitter.com/search?q=fratmusic. Our facebook page has about 25K fans and is growing. The site is very simple, but it works. Anyways, if you have any questions, feel free to ping me as well. omar.bohsali@gmail.com.