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I couldn't find an example of an artist page, so it's hard for me to evaluate. I have a question though. How are you ever going to compete to Bandcamp? From wh

by waxjar 14y ago

I couldn't find an example of an artist page, so it's hard for me to evaluate. I have a question though. How are you ever going to compete to Bandcamp? From what I read, the services sound very similar, except Bandcamp does it all (well, almost all) for free. Plus a lot of artists and consumers are already familiar with Bandcamp, it's pretty much the go-to website unsigned indie artists put their stuff up (either as a free download or paid download).

hartleybrody 14y ago
I'd be lying if I told you that I thought Bandcamp was a bad service. In fact, they've been a big influence on what we've decided to build. Them and Soundcloud. How will we ever compete? We obviously won't be able to match them feature for feature at this point -- we're just two guys working on this in our spare time. But I think our positioning is a little different. Plus, both of us have years of experience music blogging so we'll lean on our networks of artists we're in contact with to hopefully drive some initial sing-ups and get some momentum. We have dreams of being the go-to service for this kind of stuff, but we know it's going to be awhile before we get there.
brianlovin 14y ago
Hartley and I are on the same page - Bandcamp and Soundcloud are awesome. We just think there's room for a different angle. For example, Bandcamp makes their revenue by taking a % off of all music sales. For this reason, they only let artists give away a certain number of tracks for free (at which point they make artists pay to give away their music for free). That makes sense for Bandcamp, we understand. For Mvsic, we think that free music is a lot more valuable to indie artists who are looking to get their foot in the door, and we're all about supporting unlimited downloading (and selling!) Thanks for your feedback though, we'll keep working!

by waxjar 14y ago

hartleybrody 14y ago

I'd be lying if I told you that I thought Bandcamp was a bad service. In fact, they've been a big influence on what we've decided to build. Them and Soundcloud. How will we ever compete? We obviously won't be able to match them feature for feature at this point -- we're just two guys working on this in our spare time. But I think our positioning is a little different. Plus, both of us have years of experience music blogging so we'll lean on our networks of artists we're in contact with to hopefully drive some initial sing-ups and get some momentum. We have dreams of being the go-to service for this kind of stuff, but we know it's going to be awhile before we get there.

brianlovin 14y ago

Hartley and I are on the same page - Bandcamp and Soundcloud are awesome. We just think there's room for a different angle. For example, Bandcamp makes their revenue by taking a % off of all music sales. For this reason, they only let artists give away a certain number of tracks for free (at which point they make artists pay to give away their music for free). That makes sense for Bandcamp, we understand. For Mvsic, we think that free music is a lot more valuable to indie artists who are looking to get their foot in the door, and we're all about supporting unlimited downloading (and selling!) Thanks for your feedback though, we'll keep working!