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> there are ... tons of creative products that you ... would truly love, if only you knew about them – music, art, stories, and more. The problem is that you do
by nix0n 8y ago
> there are ... tons of creative products that you ... would truly love, if only you knew about them – music, art, stories, and more. The problem is that you don’t know about them yet ... This “discovery” problem is one that no platform on the web has really bothered to address in a meaningful way
Pandora attempted this, and for me, it worked. I think Pandora succeeded because they took the effort (in the Music Genome Project) to understand how to categorize music, so they could build a really good recommendation engine.
- leetcrew 8y agoI'm always surprised when people are enthusiastic about Pandora. maybe I just haven't tried it enough (and/or recently enough). when I use Pandora I find that it plays a bunch of related artists that don't actually sound very similar. for instance, if I make a Death Cab for Cutie radio station, I just hear a bunch of mainstream indie rock from the mid/late 00s. I'm sure that modest mouse and dcfc are very close on an association graph, but they don't really sound anything like each other.
- nix0n 8y agoI've had better luck if I give Pandora a bit more input data (try the "add variety" button). That being said, I used to listen to Death Cab and I'm not sure what to recommend either. Maybe Andrew Bird? I think the lesson to be learned here is that recommendation engines are difficult.