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Ask HN: Review my new project, blaster.fm
Blaster.fm is a social network for discussing and sharing music, built on the last.fm API.
I had the idea after being frustrated with the "social" experience of last.fm, and wanted somewhere I could share music and rants about various artists without annoying people on twitter. It's basically a FB news feed of your last.fm friends.
If you link your twitter account it also makes a handy blip.fm replacement.
It's still in the early stages with only a couple of hundred users, but obviously I'm hoping for a some steady growth. Working on an API and some mobile clients next.
I'm sure there are some things to be tweaked in the initial signup process - at the moment I don't think it's "sticky" enough if you don't have friends in the service. A lot of people sign up, never post anything and (so far) haven't come back. Possibly also some confusing terminology.
Would love your feedback, but be gentle :)
Works best if you already have a last.fm account.
http://blaster.fm
Edit: if you don't want to sign up, here's what a profile page looks like http://blaster.fm/killthelight/
- EgeBamyasi 16y agoLooks promising! It would be swell tough if the user could enter a youtube or vimeo link and share that, last.fm doesnt have it all. :) And another thing, when clicking on an band-name it would be nice if there where some link to the artists entry on rateyourmusic.com . I find it to be the best service for discovering all the nerdy stuff about bands(like members, boolegs, reviews etc etc.)
- joshsharp 16y agoOh, I hadn't heard of rateyourmusic, thanks for the tip. You can actually post a youtube link - see explanation in http://blog.blaster.fm/2011/getting-the-most-out-of-your-blaster-fm/ http://blog.blaster.fm/2011/getting-the-most-out-of-your-bla... - but at the moment it's a bit of an "advanced" feature.
- EgeBamyasi 16y agoRYM is fabulous for everything music! Quickstart: Click on charts in the top menu. Insert random obscure genre, be shure to check "+ child genres " Click Show Chart and be amazed. A neat feature would be when entering an artist and title a little button or something would appera. Pressing it would launch a popup or something where the search results from youtube would appear where you could also listen/watch and then select the relevant video.
- joshsharp 16y agoWhich is what blip.fm does :) Hesitant to keep adding stuff to the UI, but it might be helpful.
- sagacity 16y agoClickable: http://blaster.fm http://blaster.fm Edit: Not really my thing, still took a quick look, kind of neat. All the best.
- srinivastamada 16y agoNeat Design