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This has 7 points within 18 minutes. Forgive me if I'm wrong - but isn't it a little uncool to spruik yourselves this way? I mean - fair enough if you had lin

This has 7 points within 18 minutes. Forgive me if I'm wrong - but isn't it a little uncool to spruik yourselves this way? I mean - fair enough if you had linked to a blog post highlighting some interesting tech you had used or something like that - but to a blank twitter sign up page... which I don't want to use... without even an overview of what the service does... that's lame. (even lamer to be vote rigging such a lame submission). If I could downvote this - I would.

r4vik 15y ago
I don't have anything to do with them, just been listening to it all morning and thought it was cool and HN might be interested as it was made by dudes in the startup community as a side project. Also with turntable.fm blowing up right now, we could be looking at a rebirth in social music innovation which has been kind of stagnant since pandora/spotify/grooveshark.
- jfeldstein2 15y ago
  We definitely are. =^]
alexkiwi 15y ago
Sorry your experience was so poor, we honestly didn't want this to go out on HN yet. We're testing stuff too. Happy to explain whatever.
- grovulent 15y ago
  Well I got nothing against the service. Tweeting things to dozens of people does tend to let the cat out of the bag tho... I got nothing against self-promotion mind you. I just don't think a blank sign up page is news... anyhoo - power to you. The music is v. nice.
  - alexkiwi 15y ago
    Thanks for the kind words, the tweets were intended to get a small, < 100 people to test it out.
Lukeas14 15y ago
That might be out of the ordinary on Monday morning. But I can't imagine there's too much competition for the front page at 2 am on Saturday night.
- grovulent 15y ago
  Maybe that reinforces my point? It's not that it hit the front page - it really doesn't take many votes for that even during busy hours. But that it got THIS many votes so quickly during a low period... hmm... sorry but it's just dubious to me. Maybe lots of fans of electronic stay up late?
yesimahuman 15y ago
I'm not sure what is up with the recent hostility on HN. This is an interesting service that is already launched (so your quibble about it not being news is kind of strange). The fact you don't want to use it and you consider the signup page "blank" means you could have responded with positive criticism and helped them improve the landing page. That would help the community more as a whole here.

r4vik 15y ago

I don't have anything to do with them, just been listening to it all morning and thought it was cool and HN might be interested as it was made by dudes in the startup community as a side project. Also with turntable.fm blowing up right now, we could be looking at a rebirth in social music innovation which has been kind of stagnant since pandora/spotify/grooveshark.

jfeldstein2 15y ago
We definitely are. =^]

alexkiwi 15y ago

Sorry your experience was so poor, we honestly didn't want this to go out on HN yet. We're testing stuff too. Happy to explain whatever.

grovulent 15y ago
Well I got nothing against the service. Tweeting things to dozens of people does tend to let the cat out of the bag tho... I got nothing against self-promotion mind you. I just don't think a blank sign up page is news... anyhoo - power to you. The music is v. nice.
- alexkiwi 15y ago
  Thanks for the kind words, the tweets were intended to get a small, < 100 people to test it out.

Lukeas14 15y ago

That might be out of the ordinary on Monday morning. But I can't imagine there's too much competition for the front page at 2 am on Saturday night.

grovulent 15y ago
Maybe that reinforces my point? It's not that it hit the front page - it really doesn't take many votes for that even during busy hours. But that it got THIS many votes so quickly during a low period... hmm... sorry but it's just dubious to me. Maybe lots of fans of electronic stay up late?

yesimahuman 15y ago

I'm not sure what is up with the recent hostility on HN. This is an interesting service that is already launched (so your quibble about it not being news is kind of strange). The fact you don't want to use it and you consider the signup page "blank" means you could have responded with positive criticism and helped them improve the landing page. That would help the community more as a whole here.