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I had high hopes for SoundCloud but in the end, VC’s always win.

• dzhiurgis 3y ago
  They still pretty much same. I don't get any audio ads, some ads in my stream, but never seem to be playing. Premium offering is stuck somewhere in 2009 when offline playback was a thing. Lack of integrations with Homepod & Tesla is somewhat becoming a problem. Still no way to filter your stream or get know what bitrate you are streaming.
• whizzter 3y ago
  (I studied with one of the founders) Soundclouds problem was always that they started out as basically a free service for a particular niche(artist to label contacts), starting to charge(pissing off people who expected free forever) and then moving out of the niche made it so they never really had a footing for something people would pay for. The problem with so many "internet unicorns" from the 2000-2010 era is that they handwaved per-customer costs as hardware/network costs and assumed that as long as they scaled then salaries would be a minor part, we as an industry are now trying to dig ourselves out of that hole with a even shittier AD experiences just as that AD market is crashing down.
  • waveBidder 3y ago
    free money for VC via low interest rates was a terrible strategy for creating innovation that would last.
• justatdotin 3y ago
  yes, I was very hopeful for sc: such a waste.