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Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab
- 999900000999 2y agoCool idea, but I'm not giving you my location. Please allow me to select a city manually.
- pg5 2y agoI figured that "allow once, approximate location" would be sufficient for the privacy conscious. A little scared to make it selectable, as it would make it much easier for spammers/scammers to target locations, as the only verification is email. I do realize they can still change their location that with an emulator.
- 999900000999 2y agoYou're only keeping honest people out. It's trivial to spoof location on Android.
- feoren 2y ago> A little scared to make it selectable, as it would make it much easier for spammers/scammers to target locations, as the only verification is email. I do realize they can still change their location that with an emulator. So there's not really any hurdle at all for automated spammers who can fake their location easily, but you're making it more difficult for genuine users anyway?
- pg5 2y agoMy thought process was that clicking allow or allow once would be less difficult for genuine users than searching for their city.
- hyperadvanced 2y agoIMO you’re losing more people due to the location requirement than you are gaining a bad rap from scammers/spammers. I just went through the exact experience of the above poster, I blanket deny loc tracking.
- jolmg 2y agoThe concern's probably that in order for location tracking to not give you their exact home location, they'd have to drive a good distance away from their home or something before allowing it once. That doesn't seem less difficult than searching for the city from the comfort of their home.
- AlecSchueler 2y agoKeep in mind the privacy concerns of the HN are significantly higher than for normal people. It might not be much of an issue at all. That said, one thing that is useful with being able to select a city is that it would allow me to browse my home city when I'm abroad, or look for people to play with while I'm traveling. Tinder offers this as a premium feature.
- notfed 2y agoThen support both?
- HelmetFigNewton 2y agoI don't think he's making it more difficult. How is automatic "more difficult" than manually typing in your city?
- mmclar 2y agoWhat if I'm not in the location I care about? Musicians are famously people who are often on the road.
- earthnail 2y agoGreat premium feature. Like on Tinder. Put location choice behind a paywall; keeps fake profiles out, too.
- earthnail 2y agoI think asking for location is perfectly sensible and the right thing to do. Track how many people say no, but if the opt out rate is too high, work on the wording to increase the rate before you allow manually entering a city.
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- grumpymouse 2y agoI’m not going to install this because I’m not looking for a band, but it would be cool if you could keep in mind solo musicians often need to hire a band in order to play This could be a good way for people to find that when they don’t have other musicians in their network who can fill that role for them.
- dylan604 2y agoseems like something a website could do and not require an app. I hope the dev learned a lot about making an app while building this, as that seems the only purpose for app only to me. Unless they want to get at all of that precious data hoovering money potential. I have become so callused and cynical from malicious devs, that's my first thought on anything that is an app instead of a website
- drusepth 2y agoI think the "app" form-factor is preferrable to a "website" for a lot of people. Almost every website I've built over the past 10 years (summing to ~900k-ish users) has had constant streams of users always requesting an app alternative to the website, quote "even if it's just the regular website in an app".
- dylan604 2y agoYou just described a web app. Go forth and sin no more
- dumbo-octopus 2y agoPeople don't like web apps and don't know how to install PWA's (by design of the OS manufacturers that make money from developers needing to pay to be on their hosted platforms). Like it or not, if you tell someone you have a product to use on their phone, they're going to want it to be in the App Store.
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- ajakate 2y agoI downloaded the app, but running into an infinite spinner on the main "Artists" tab, so can't really comment on the what the app is like... What I will say is that it seems a little unfortunate that so many "matching" apps take the tinder swipe model these days when it really makes the matching experience worse. I have a friend who's a drummer in central Illinois. He's used https://www.bandmix.com https://www.bandmix.com to find multiple groups that he's been jamming with for a while now. The UI is such that you can see a grid of all the bands/artists matching your criteria, and can facet and filter your search in the sidebar with a lot of other options including distance, commitment level, genre, etc.
- pg5 2y agoThanks for checking it out. Ugh, I thought I had fixed the infinite spin, but it seems to happen on the first app open occasionally still - its related to permissions dialog I intend to add filtering, but didn't initially because 0 people use it currently, and also wanted to get an mvp out quickly
- colonwqbang 2y agoWhy does swiping make it worse? Is there a better alternative?
- unixhero 2y agoWhy not just list everyone... tables and filters for the end user
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- AlecSchueler 2y agoYou give up on a lot of data you could otherwise have collected by doing that, data which could have helped the product in other ways.
- FailMore 2y agoCan’t download of find it on the iOS App Store. Based in Uk
- pg5 2y agoAh sorry - initially only launched in the US/Canada because I don't have translations set up. I suppose there is no reason to not make it available in the UK though.
- benenglish 2y agoYes please
- pg5 2y agoUpdated both app stores to make it available in the UK, might take a bit to take effect
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- block_dagger 2y agoInstalled iOS version. Looks like I can’t even browse content without (1) giving away email and (2) entering profile information. So I uninstalled it. Please consider showing content before you ask for personal info from the user.
- spacebacon 2y agoI agree, musicians are a finicky bunch. Show profiles and onboard after peaking an interest.
- entropicdrifter 2y agoI agree with this sentiment as well, but my OCD requires me to inform you that the word you want is "piquing"
- pg5 2y agoThat is fair, I may have copied the tinder model too literally.
- treme 2y agoI disagree. People on HN won't even signup for Twitter because "reasons". I think gate keeping finicky people is fine, you should at least A/B test how likely you can encourage registration because building initial network effect for something like this is crucial.
- AlecSchueler 2y agoI agree with this, don't get too bogged down by what people here think, focus on your target audience. This is the crowd that would have passed on Dropbox because it's so easy just to use rsync.
- codedokode 2y agoWhen you use rsync, you don't have to share your data with foreign intelligence.
- srameshc 2y agoGreat idea, I always wanted to build something to do with music and musicians but never did I think of this case. I can see it useful and a website instead of an app to begin with will make it easier for many to try and test.
- debo_ 2y agoDrummers are probably going to be the "attractive person" equivalent on this app lol
- rozap 2y agoWe did have a drummer but unfortunately he died in a bizarre gardening accident.
- hi-v-rocknroll 2y agoOn stage or off? (What? There could be a band that does live gardening as part of its routine.)
- toddmorey 2y agoI heard you've gone through quite a few drummers, actually. List of Spinal Tap Drummers, all deceased https://zeroenthusiasm.tumblr.com/post/47032679583/list-of-spinal-tap-drummers-all-deceased https://zeroenthusiasm.tumblr.com/post/47032679583/list-of-s...
- RajT88 2y agoNow technically he died by choking on his own vomit. But the thing is - it wasn't his vomit. But you can't very well fingerprint vomit, innit?
- tnolet 2y agoWhat’s the difference between a drummer and a drum machine? You only have to punch the beat into a drum machine once. (Had bands and multiple drummers. Love’m)
- hi-v-rocknroll 2y agoMy Roland MC-505 is in violent agreement.
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- htrp 2y agoCan we page the owners/devs of the app to at least explain what they've built and at least answer some questions about it?
- pg5 2y agoHi, I'm here. I built this as an alternative to city-based Facebook groups (for people who don't use it) and in part to learn React Native. It lets you create an artist profile, view nearby ones, match with them, then have a real-time chat with your matches. Added a "nearby concerts" tab mainly so that the first adopters in new areas would have something useful besides a blank screen.
- htrp 2y agoDid you try/build on other frameworks ? What made you choose ReactNative?
- pvg 2y agoThat's effectively what 'Show HN' means - someone is posting their own work and is around to talk about it.
- higgins 2y agoawesome app! how did you source the initial musicians before launch?
- pg5 2y agoThanks! I suppose the answer is that I didn't. It's pretty empty right now, besides friends and the results of a recent Meta ad campaign.
- jyash97 2y agoWow, I had a similar idea back in 2018 and I created a visual prototype for it with bunch of screens and did user interviews. I didnt get chance to look into the app fully yet, but my idea covered musicians and people ( like restaurant owner/mgr or other ) to hire musician, I also handled a way to find other band members too. Would love to share my idea and details in case you are interested
- ktbwrestler 2y agoDamn this piques my interest, would love to hear more: jhg7nm at Virginia.edu
- pg5 2y agoIn my spreadsheet of possible expansions, I do have "artist", "band" and "venue" specific profiles and some way to provide value to them, but I haven't really thought it through.
- throwaway22032 2y agoThe League of Legends role selection screen comes to mind...
- pg5 2y agoIs that a good or bad thing?
- throwaway22032 2y agoRunning joke that if you pick support you'll match in 1 second
- irskep 2y agoHow does this differ from Vampr and Bandmix, which claim to be the same thing?
- pg5 2y agoHaven't used Vampr. I made this in part because I did not enjoy the "retro" UX of BandMix and the fact that you have to pay money to send a message.
- irskep 2y agoIt's literally a Tinder-style swipe interface for musician matching. I recommend taking a realistic look at your competition.
- javier123454321 2y agoFrom what I can tell, it's worse than Vampr, but also has a smaller network.
- wizardwes 2y agoInstalled to give it a look, but, sadly, as expected, nobody in my area, and concerts are basically non-existent.
- pg5 2y agoI considered making my own profile visible to everyone regardless of distance.
- wizardwes 2y agoWould be cute, kinda like MySpace, but I think would detract from the experience if there are people in your area, unless it was always the first one to show up, and only ever when you first open the app
- paxys 2y agoUnless there are somehow millions of musicians looking to get matched in a single city, the "swipe" UI is pointless and will just make the whole thing unusable. The search + filter pattern for online datasets was perfected many decades ago. Use it.
- Philip-J-Fry 2y agoYeah, swiping is a dark pattern employed by dating apps. Even with millions of users, there's better ways to match people up than a simple swipe. It's to keep people at the mercy of an algorithm where spending money is the only way to get any sort of control over what you see. It exists only for shady monetisation.
- PaulHoule 2y agoActually if you use the same interface for recommendation systems for content (say RSS feed items, videos, etc.) you get much better results than western content recommenders which don't get accurate negative samples. It finally hit me the reason I didn't understand a lot of the recommender literature is that it doesn't make sense and it's transformative to treat recommendation as a classification problem the way TikTok does. The real Dark Pattern is that YouTube and every other western app looks like https://marvelpresentssalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/idiocracy-ow-my-balls.jpg https://marvelpresentssalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/id... where you can't conclude anything at all because a user didn't click on an item. (That and the scan-ignore-repeat UI paradigm that has kept RSS readers thoroughly out of the mainstream forever) Even if you want to have a search-based UI it would still make sense to show you one match at a time and let you thumbs up and thumbs down and have the system remember your choices so you can come back next week and look at new items without the considerable cognitive burden of ignoring. But say “see something once, why see it again?” and people look at you like you’re a psycho killer. The whole advertising economy though is based fundamentally on spamming you with the same crap over and over and a ‘dislike’ button that works (negative sampling) would end it overnight, i guess there’s a reason why you can’t explain something to a person whose paycheck is based on not understanding it.
- PUSH_AX 2y agoEase of recording has made remote bands and collaborations very common, you can trade stems with people anywhere and make music. This would be a million times more useful without the geographical restriction, although I concede if the true intent is to make in person bands then sure, it's useful. Just consider the wider market.
- pg5 2y agoA lot of people have mentioned this, so I'll add the toggle to disable "local artists only" to the top of my TODO. Though I suppose genre filtering would need to be built first, or it would be obnoxious.
- hyperadvanced 2y agoGenre is probably a prerequisite, yeah. I wouldn’t want to use something that basically firehosed every metal guitarist on earth into my feed when I’m looking for someone who’s into post-rock (or whatever)
- amelius 2y agoUsing this terminology you might as well call Uber: "Tinder" but for finding a cab driver.
- impulsivepuppet 2y agoUsing Tinder as analogy for bandmate-finding works quite well, as the end goal can be abstracted away as some "intimate relationship". Whether the mechanics of Tinder are worth parodying is another question, I need to try the app first.
- eweise 2y agoLooks good. Wish it was a website though.
- winternett 2y agoDoes the app feature music by musicians? As a musician that's what I'd expect to see myself, because seeing a bunch of people only talking about what they do is useless in terms of conveying style and skill. It also enables scammers and fraud if people aren't required to at least upload a video of themselves in action. Back in the old days, we had a local paper that allowed musicians to connect from a classified section, and boy was it scary meeting some of the strangers that posted in there to jam.
- wheels 2y agoThere's a simple website for where I live (Berlin) which is basically musical want ads. Biggest problem is that while it allows it, most musicians don't include an audio clip. People self-describing their musical ability is almost entirely useless.
- pg5 2y agoSince this is the first iteration, I went the easiest route where people link their SoundCloud/Spotify/or Youtube channel. I considered having MP3 uploads or even video uploads, but didn't seem worth it building a transcoding/streaming system, when someone could still upload things that is not them playing. Another idea is to "verify" linked Spotify accounts by having the artist place a short random code in their Spotify bio, to prove they are actually the artist.
- wheels 2y agoYou're missing the bulk of the already small market if you're assuming people signing up for your app will universally have Spotify tracks up or their own YouTube channel. Soundcloud is more likely, but still not a given, as it's geared towards mostly finished tracks. Hint: the most sought after band members are bassists and drummers, and they don't tend to do solo tracks. You want people to be able to have a low quality video of them noodling or playing along to something for 30 seconds.
- novaomnidev 2y agoWhat does swiping left mean? I may not want to collab with someone for a particular project but that doesn’t mean I never want to see their profile again. Also swiping left feels like rejecting them. What if I’m just browsing the artists? I don’t want to be rejecting while I’m browsing options. Also why am I limited to my area? I want to be able to collaborate digitally. I don’t need to be in close proximity to do that. I ran out of people in my area after 2 left swipes. I would like to just click on the genre of artist I want, hear a sample of their work and then be able to message and favorite the ones I like.
- pg5 2y agoThanks for the feedback! Having a skip, but not reject sounds useful. I have in the roadmap a "don't limit to my area" option! Also plan to have some sort of inline playable sample on the profile, but haven't figured out the best way to do that - video vs audio vs embedding SoundCloud or YouTube.
- financetechbro 2y agoA neat idea would be to have “projects.” Each account/profile has a default/personal “project,” meaning a contained instance of matching. But they’re also able to create additional “projects.” So if someone wants to look for a match for a specific project or a new band they can create a new project and swipe across all accounts. Would be cool to set up filters when creating a project, so that the options to swipe are more relevant to the current “project” at hand. Making it easier to find a match
- chillingeffect 2y agoLove this! Bc my various music styles are very different!
- trenchgun 2y agoTikTok is your top competitor. Your edge aganst it is that you are focused on musicians only. BTW TikTok has swiping down to go to next video, up to go back, left to go to live, and the like, follow, comment etc. But yeah, "don't limit to area" should be top priority if you want to scale.
- lovegrenoble 2y agohttps://www.reddit.com/r/BandMatch/ https://www.reddit.com/r/BandMatch/ nothing
- pg5 2y agoI'm not exactly sure what you were expecting - the app has been live for a day
- ElevenLathe 2y agoCongratulations on yet another novel attempt to apply the swipe-based matching algorithm that has so effectively revolutionized hookups to the world of music creation. It's heartwarming to see how technology keeps pushing the boundaries of human interaction, from love and sex to now forming musical collaborations. I can just envision the future where we'll have swipe-based tools for finding roommates, jobs, and even toilet paper preferences. But seriously, best of luck to all the aspiring musicians out there, may BandMatch bring you one step closer to your musical dreams.
- pg5 2y agoRoomMateMatch, JobMatch, and ToiletPaperMatch are all in the works, I just have to copy paste the repo and find-replace the brand names.
- zero-sharp 2y agoPlot twist: ToiletPaperMatch doesn't use a swiping UI.
- simondotau 2y agoYeah, more of a pinch and twist.
- RajT88 2y agoGreat. A whole new trend of exaggeration and outright lying on social apps. ISO - band. Lead guitar player, regularly practices Yngwie Malmsteen songs.
- aantix 2y agoWhat's the equivilent of marketing/engineering matching, for founding a company?
- pg5 2y agoHave you tried YC's Co-founder matching tool?
- hyperadvanced 2y agoJust a comment - love the idea, going to use this, I think it’s a good idea not to lead with “Tinder for X”. At this point Tinder occupies a pretty bad lexical territory of being one of the classic examples of anti-user practices and enshittification.
- pg5 2y agoAh, I wasn't aware of the connotation. Luckily, this post is the only place where I've described it in that way.
- hyperadvanced 2y agoYep, just 2 cents from me! Excited to see how the app develops!
- arnorhs 2y agoWould be interested in testing, however not available in my country.. is there a particular reason? Seems like some artists like to collaborate across borders.. it's not like a dating app where your location is crucial, and you want certain level of usage saturation in a particular region before expanding.. I guess what I'm saying is: why not open for all regions?
- pg5 2y agoI didn't want to release the app without proper translations for the target countries. FYI - I haven't yet implemented the feature to toggle off "local-only" artists.
- Angostura 2y agoWhich language do you think is most popular in the UK? :)
- Nevermark 2y agoNot American! We apologize for the inconvenience, but unfortunately, our specialized app is not authorized to operate or cash checks from your financial center due to a catalog of regionalized legal financial terminology, and therefore, we cannot fulfill a properly personalized vernacular experience. Unfortunately, this language barrier also prohibits any user dialog about future support for your neighborhood. See ya, buddy! Aluminum! /humor (Disclaimer - Not actually associated with the site, but having lived in both countries, I feel so very qualified to clear things up.)
- lloeki 2y agoMy tongue in cheek take :) https://ibb.co/8DGyTyK https://ibb.co/8DGyTyK
- socksy 2y agoFun fact: "-ize" is a valid British spelling (but "-yze", e.g. in "analyze" isn't!) See https://www.oed.com/dictionary/apologize_v https://www.oed.com/dictionary/apologize_v & https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_spelling https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_spelling
- ericyd 2y agoLove the idea, but I've tried similar apps in the past and they all suffer from lack of critical mass, and/or lots of accounts with little activity. I'd love it if this one were different, but Craigslist has been the most consistent way I've found to connect with musicians. Other services I've tried are Hendrix (gohendrix.com) and Vampr
- abhpro 2y agoYeah apps like this are kinda doa unless you got a huge marketing budget
- paul7986 2y agoI joined a similar app .. it has a lot reviews in the app store (not to say those are real lol) and i was excited to join and meet fellow local musicians. If you thought online dating was hard and judgemental ... finding musicians to play music is even more judgemental .. if you are a good to great singer for instance these apps will keep you busy. Personally i just wanted to connect and play music without the judgement (tho do want you to be able to actually play an instrument fairly well .. strum chords on guitar and lets sing along as we strum together). I posted songs i wrote where professional singers were singing them and those got people reaching out. Their messages were like good song and did you sing that (i noted i did not) but they became disinterested when they truly realized i was not the singer.
- nineteen999 2y agoGreat, I was looking for a baritone sax player for a demo just yesterday. Look forward to seeing it available in my part of the world.
- benenglish 2y agoCan't believe you don't have the UK :/
- pg5 2y agoUpdated both app stores so it's available in the UK and Australia. Unsure how fast it takes effect.
- biscuits1 2y agoBandStand, Sideman, SoundMate... or eHarmony.
- twobitshifter 2y agoI would rather see a playlist of musicians filtered by style and experience and then skip through the playlist as I listen and have a contact button. A tinder interface doesn’t really make sense for music.
- VoodooJuJu 2y agoI think this would be awesome as a normal search classifieds kind of thing, not as a Tinder thing. Tinder's selling point isn't the swiping mechanism itself, but that it's taking something publicly taboo, harem culture, and enabling it by taking it private, with a discrete, subtle, and low-stakes mechanism for participating in that culture. There's nothing to hide when it comes to finding musicians to jam with, so that's why I think a more traditional search & filter thing would be better suited for this.
- arrowsmith 2y agoThere are already tons of "find a bandmate" classified ads sites that work exactly like you describe. E.g. https://bandmix.co.uk/ https://bandmix.co.uk/
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- HelmetFigNewton 2y ago[dead]
- liquid153 2y agoWhat a dumb app
- Minor49er 2y agoFound the guitarist
- Ylpertnodi 2y agoAs a guitarist I tend blame the bass players of the world.
- _sys49152 2y agough. had this idea more than 14 years ago with nothing to do it for. hope the concept takes off.
- epcoa 2y agoNotably an even higher risk of VD than Tinder, sources say.
- Waterluvian 2y agoTimbre was right there.
- bpm140 2y agoI saw down below that you’re not familiar with Vampr, which is very similar to what your screenshots suggest. Moments like this always make me sad. Even a cursory web search would have surfaced Vampr, along with several other find-a-bandmate sites. Weeks or even months of work because Googling was too much trouble. So what happens now? Do you let sunk cost dictate your actions and force you to continue working on an undifferentiated and far less feature-rich product? Or do you stop working on your app and just start using Vampr?
- 12907835202 2y agoI think this would work better if it had 2 modes, one built by scraping/bots from public listings, sound cloud etc, which would let you discover and reach out on those platforms. And one powered by "list yourself" where people would create their profiles to make themselves easier to discover. This would avoid the issue of not having many users initially whilst also making it interesting to use.
- 1270018080 2y agoIt's been awhile since I've seen one of these. The Tinder of ________ is a vintage meme in tech entrepreneurship.
- bustylasercanon 2y agoThis is such a good idea.
- dmix 2y agoI love this idea, two things: 1) You should have "drum machine" or "sampler" as an instrument option for hip-hop/electronic producers looking to connect with other beatmakers, I get it's for live band type stuff but plenty of electronic-based production teams double up and form teams. 2) The email entry box on the first screen of the mobile app is some non-standard input. I had to manually type in my email when every other app autocomplted with 1password
- pg5 2y agoAh thanks! I don't know how I missed #2, but both are easy fixes and I'll knock em out.
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- sergiotapia 2y agoI play guitar - never played live with any group. Has anyone played in a "virtual band" does that even work or does the latency kill it?
- Ylpertnodi 2y agoHaving a backing track is a great way to practice. You can replay the tune over and over to practice, the band 'members' never get tired...ever. Being able to program/ write backing tracks (on computer) is a sneaky way of getting into programming too (editing vsts etc).
- analog31 2y agoI did this during the pandemic, using Jamulus. I'm a jazz bassist. I felt that the amount of latency was a mixed bag, depending on your Internet service. Just because you're in close physical proximity to other players doesn't mean your latency is short. Also, it works as advertised if you play an electric instrument and can block out the natural sound of your instrument with headphones. For this reason, electric bass was a lot easier than upright bass for me. Many of the musicians are not techies, and explaining these details is impossible. "I took my headphones off because hearing the mix was messing me up" is a constant refrain. Trying to maintain a sense of time under those circumstances made it mentally fatiguing to play, and no fun, so I eventually gave up and started just working on my technique and improvisation. Jamming with people outdoors was a lot more fun.
- Perenti 2y agoHow can I use this without a smartphone?
- blueprint 2y agoToo bad this one never took off - it looked amazing at the time https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/3/16082864/treble-fm-social-networking-app-musicians-collaborate https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/3/16082864/treble-fm-social-...
- timnetworks 2y agoI don't know how to play, but I would like to. I'm the kind of person that needs stuff to be a group activity or I lose interest very very quickly. Clone the app and call it L2Play, there's a bunch of noobs just like me. edit - Lock it geographically, but not temporally. I'm as interested now as I was 6 months ago and will be 6 months from now.
- VikingCoder 2y agoPlease allow switching to Online Collaboration. I'd prefer to find someone local, but until then, I'd be open to online connections.
- fagrobot 2y agofunk yes!
- ultra-giraffe 2y agoNeat idea but the musician directory seems buggy. After scrolling once through a few musicians I can’t seem to return to them. Eventually the entire list disappears and I get a “no musicians in your area” message. No documentation, user guide, or support that I could find. It would be cool to see this working or to understand how to use it… i’m an amateur musician who has thought of looking for others to jam with.
- pg5 2y agoThanks for checking it out. That behavior is intentional and mirrors apps like Tinder and Bumble. Swiping left means you aren't interested in the profile and won't see it again. Got a lot of feedback for needing a neutral skip, so that's on my list. Also considering replacing the swiping UI entirely, as many people here pointed out that it's not really ideal.
- unixhero 2y agoDoes anything like this exist for friends? 40+ is a lonely existence. I have seen that at this stage the number of interactions with friends are dwindling...
- analognoise 2y agoRight? Can we just have tinder but for cool projects and friendships?
- neom 2y agoI used bumbles "Friends Mode" and found some cool dudes my age to chill with...but.. then I realized I didn't actually want to make new friends I wanted to be less lonely, so I just started volunteering instead.
- SethMurphy 2y agoI find that the more music creation and distribution is gamified, the less gratifying it is for me. Discovery of the music and people who share your distinct musical passions is such and important part of the process of enjoying music and it's creation. On first look I thought, interesting, why would they go ruin the best (if also one of the more frustrating) parts of music creation. No thanks, too derivative and solving a problem in a way that feels icky to me.
- normcoreashore 2y agoSo true. get out there, go to shows, find/attend jam sessions by asking around, visit studios, make friends in person.
- pineaux 2y agoLovely! When will this roll out in the EU?
- paines 2y agoIs this country filtered? iOS->latest Update->not available in Germany...
- atmanactive 2y agoI found recommended concerts useful.
- footlose_3815 2y agoThis has been done before, and it was free. It was called “Grouptones” It was cool. Sadly it’s no longer up. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/grouptones-help-to-bring-this-free-resource-to-musicians-everywhere#/ https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/grouptones-help-to-bring-...
- leadguit 2y agoMake sure you check the name - there is a website called bandmatch already, which is a somewhat established platform (granted, it's I think only for DACH meaning: Switzerland (primarily), Austria, Germany, and is a traditional blackboard style site, but naming conflicts are never fun). Unless your affiliated with them of course: https://www.bandmatch.ch https://www.bandmatch.ch
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- nemoniac 2y agoNeeds a GDPR statement to be legal in EU and UK.
- teucris 2y agoI’m loving the feedback everyone is posting here. While there are some cynics, you all have posted a treasure trove of useful insights for this creator. And for people like me who are constantly trying to improve user experience for the products they make, reading these comments has been incredibly insightful.
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- tiimbz 2y agoNice! How is this different from Vampr? [0] they use (or at least, used) the same tagline: ‘Tinder, but for musicians to collaborate’ [0] https://vampr.me/ https://vampr.me/
- zerr 2y agoPlease provide desktop or web app. Not everyone uses iOS or Android devices.
- derefr 2y agoI'm not disagreeing; they should do this. But I would like to point out that these days, releasing an app as mobile-only really doesn't disenfranchise that many people. • iOS apps can be installed and used pretty transparently on Apple Silicon Macs; • and Android apps can likewise be installed and used pretty transparently on both Windows 11 (via Windows Subsystem for Android) and on ChromeOS. So by choosing to release an app as mobile-only, you're "only" excluding people without (even a very old!) smartphone, who are also: • people with only Intel Macs; • people with only Windows PCs, who are stuck on a previous version of Windows; • or Linux users. That's... not too many people at this point. (And most of them live so far behind the curve that they wouldn't be interested in installing some bleeding-edge mobile app anyway.)
- derefr 2y agoAnd, separate point, tangent to this: I would guess that probably most people in that state of "no smartphone and no modern Windows/macOS/ChromeOS device", who would also actually care about installing some random bleeding-edge app, are people who are in that state by choice — i.e. they're not unable, but rather unwilling to use a mobile app, due to being extremely concerned with their privacy/anonymity. And being that kind of person, is actually kind of incompatible with being a "member in good standing" of a matchmaking service (whether the matchmaking is for dating; for getting a band together; for finding a babysitter; for renting a condo; etc.) Matchmaking apps only "work" insofar as they 1. can prevent catfishing, 2. can allow users to permanently block others who are harassing them, and 3. can allow users to report spammers/scammers/etc in such a way that a bad actor will be permanently removed from the platform altogether. Matchmaking apps that don't make these guarantees, end up being negative-experience generators and go down in bad-PR flames. With the rise of botnets that use proxy IP addresses to register massive numbers of accounts on such services for nefarious purposes, the only way matchmaking services have been able to survive, is to require the user to at least complete initial registration through a device that can give a remote attestation that the user is not in ultimate control of the device — i.e. the device has a Trusted Computing Base and has not been rooted — and so the app is not being tampered with or fed false device metrics. (See also: browser integrity.) Wanting to have absolute privacy/anonymity, is fundamentally incompatible with using a device that's able to make such guarantees.
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- xchip 2y agoI can finally pretend to be pretty and able to play guitar
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- cush 2y agoI tried the app and have a bit of feedback Since it’s designed to have people meet up, it’s important to require a photo. It’s a safety thing. This seems like it would be the first feature (what photo-swipe is to Tinder) but it would be nice if, when the card is displayed, you heard a sample of the musician’s music. It’s odd that the cards are silent. The entire app should be a sonic experience. Linking to YouTube is fine but why send people away from the app? Also, sad but true, don’t forget to populate every major city with a few really good looking and sounding fake profiles. There were just 5 blank profiles near me.
- electrondood 2y agoThis is a great idea- sound samples per profile. Love the app idea!
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- suranyami 2y agoThis is so insultingly dumb. The skill and music categories are simplistic and show no knowledge of the true depth and breadth of music styles or techniques, and it pathetically assumes I want to find someone within 10 “miles”. You do know that there are 7.5 billion people on this planet that don’t know or give a shit about your dumb barbarian units? “Yeah, brah! This’ll help you build your sweet-as rock band… or jazz or some shit, whatevs…”