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I got techcrunched!
Hehe, I made it to TC now how cool is that.
- Sam_Odio 19y agoCongrats, man
- agentbleu 19y agoHehe I got Hackernews'ed too Bonus points. ding ding. lol
- wave 19y agoKeep us updated with the traffic effect from the TechCrunch mention.
- agentbleu 19y agosure will report back as it cools off
- agentbleu 18y agoTraffic serge has been interesting, as a result of TC article it also made the popular list on delicious and as you know here too, then other blogs kicked in, one Spanish one which seemed to bring a nice flux of traffic too. The main serge lasted about 8 hours, then flattened off, and now its back to a mix of natural traffic and some residue from the articles. Id say at this point I had about 15K uniques hit it as a direct result but thats a guess and wont know for sure until tomorrow now. I think that's not bad given TC isn't a music blog per say with limited interest from many in this sector. But I'm v pleased to have been given the opportunity and very proud to be a part of this community here.
- vikas5678 19y agoWhy does the article start off with "a bootstrapped startup from Agentbleu, a Englishman living in France" and in the end say the location is in India? Did they get it wrong?
- agentbleu 19y agocompany is based in India, it's just me that is in France ;-)
- ROFISH 19y agoGood job! May I ask how you managed to do that?
- agentbleu 19y agoBelieve me it was not easy. Last year I made an app and they totally snuffed it. Someone somewhere along the line made a comment saying 'just move on, make another and another', I did and they still ignored it, bastards ha (lol). There is no formula, I suggest getting whatever you're making off the ground with SEO and once you gain some traction they might just take you more seriously (hopefully).
- abhishekdesai 19y agocongrates man :) any suggestion how my application rivals4ever.com can get techcrunched ??
- lacker 19y agoCongrats! Why does Arrington call Pandora "geo-retarded"?
- rms 19y agoCongrats!
- simianstyle 19y agoCongrats, although your logo image on the homepage is a bit distorted because you're trying to squeeze it into smaller dimensions (making the font look jagged). May want to get that cleared up.
- ericb 19y agoCool app! It's funny listening to tool & metallica and watching pictures of puppies and snowmen. Is this legal? Is it "fair use" because it's remixing music with pictures? edit: I'm not seeing where it says what the current song is? Any pointers?
- agentbleu 19y agolegal yes (see above link), in the player at the bottom right it has the track playing.
- hwork 19y agoPretty sweet. Question: is it possible for an embed not to immediately start playing when a person hits my blog?
- agentbleu 19y agoYea I will add that in a few days.
- omfut 19y agoCongrats, pretty cool. Just tried pink floyd and was pretty cool. Hope ur server can handle tones of traffic from techcrunch. Is it not illegal to play songs retreived from other sources?
- agentbleu 19y agohttp://thenextweb.org/2008/01/30/the-music-wars-continue-warner-bros-records-vs-seeqpod/ http://thenextweb.org/2008/01/30/the-music-wars-continue-war...
- FiReaNG3L 19y agoHow did you get on techcrunch? emailed them or they just found out?
- agentbleu 19y agoI had to kidnap MA's dog.
- TrevorJ 19y agoGrats!!!
- pete83 19y agodid TC contact you before they cover you?
- agentbleu 18y agoyes they let me know it was going to be covered 24 hours in advance and I switched the server to a larger one with 300Mg more ram. It handled it all well, but Im glade I migrated it as I was down to 20% head room during the best of it.
- spazmaster 19y agowe just got crunched ourselves yesterday (see: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/16/soocial-makes-plaxo-look-lame-beta-invites/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/16/soocial-makes-plaxo-loo...). we tried to get techcrunched a year but that was way to early (hindsight). pick the moment you know you are up for it and then make sure you visit an event where some editor of techcrunch is and give them a demo. face to face contact really is so much more powerful than an e-mail from a stranger. thats how it worked for us, anyways!
- agentbleu 19y agoOnly currently available for macs, love it. long live Apple. Spazmaster, for server scalability I might suggest running a linode. I run my apps from a Linode and use the YC backed startup Virtualmin for setting up the domains. I highly recommend both of these products, and my app survived getting crunched with 20% headroom all times (so far).
- wozer 18y agoPretty cool app. What I'm missing, is a way to get info on the current image. Maybe a click on the image could bring up the Flickr side in a new tab?
- agentbleu 18y agowill add this function asap, thanks b
- wmeredith 18y agoThat is one badass web app you've got there. I'm enjoying it right now. One GUI issue: The controls and song info are displayed on top of the slideshow, which leads to them being unreadable 25% of the time. (When they're on top of very bright or white pictures) I would move it down below the slideshow onto a stable background. There's also no home link from the listen page. Once again, nice app. I'll be using for a bit. Oh, and you should block Pandora adds from your Adsense account.
- agentbleu 18y agohome link is called search, and the best way to use it is in full screen mode, then the controls are clear enough. Ideal situation is just to start it off and let it fill your day with music similar to your first choice. b
- cmm324 18y agoCongrats
- wumi 18y agocongratulations, but with the over-emphasis on music 2.0 on sites like techcrunch, there may be other sites where you want coverage
- Monti 18y agoCongratz! 15K hits only? I thought getting TCed would get you at least 50K to 75K. Still great.. and good app too. thanks!