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I love this thread, thank you! Ampwall. Musician-owned, Public Benefit Co alternative to Bandcamp. (Eventually.) https://ampwall.com https://ampwall.com. Dogfo

I love this thread, thank you! Ampwall. Musician-owned, Public Benefit Co alternative to Bandcamp. (Eventually.) https://ampwall.com https://ampwall.com. Dogfooding it with my own band’s merch sales at https://woeunholy.ampwall.com https://woeunholy.ampwall.com. Digital audio will launch soon (2-3 weeks?) and we plan on starting our tests with outside bands/labels by end of year. I’ve been building this throughout the past year but the stuff that’s publicly available is pretty basic. I was going to keep it quiet but the news about Epic selling Bandcamp two weeks ago prompted me to announce early, so might as well share it here too and really put the cart before the horse! I have a lot of opinions about things I’ve always wanted Bandcamp to offer. While it’s going to start very similar to BC, we’re going to experiment with some very different things ASAP. The feedback I gathered throughout the year showed me that there’s a hunger for this and the response to my announcement was bigger than I expected, so I’m feeling good about it. It’s been fun to build and it’s going to get better. It’s all Next.js and TypeScript. Hosted on Node.js servers because I don’t think serverless is for me. I’m using Porter.run for production, a YC alum whose office is in my neighborhood in Queens!

cushpush 3y ago
Cool, dude. Have you decided on a fee structure? I know bandcamp takes 15% for digital and 10% for physical items, not including merchant fees.
- sickcodebruh 3y ago
  Hey! We (my co-founder and I) haven’t decided but we’re experimenting and exploring. Right now it’s 5% plus payment processing (Stripe) fees but that will be reevaluated based on what we need to keep the lights on. Bandcamp’s fees were one of the many motivations to do this and I have a lot to say about them. I think there’s probably an approach that’s better at controlling costs while also helps folks who sell keep more of their money.

cushpush 3y ago

Cool, dude. Have you decided on a fee structure? I know bandcamp takes 15% for digital and 10% for physical items, not including merchant fees.

sickcodebruh 3y ago
Hey! We (my co-founder and I) haven’t decided but we’re experimenting and exploring. Right now it’s 5% plus payment processing (Stripe) fees but that will be reevaluated based on what we need to keep the lights on. Bandcamp’s fees were one of the many motivations to do this and I have a lot to say about them. I think there’s probably an approach that’s better at controlling costs while also helps folks who sell keep more of their money.