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If anyone cares, feel free to Ask Me Anything :)

by pud 13y ago

antidaily 13y ago
How are you so goddamned productive?
- pud 13y ago
  I don't feel productive. For example, it's 10:37am and I'm still in bed, tapping this out on my iPhone. I do launch a lot of stuff though. I think most of it is fairly MVP (Minimum Viable Product, as the kids say...:) and not super complicated. If/when one of my projects becomes popular, then I tack on the complicated stuff. Also, when I'm building things, I have this irrational fear that some competitor (real or imagined) is building the exact same thing. So I work as fast as I can, as late into the night as I can. So I can beat them to launch.
- j45 13y ago
  Cosigned - a post about your processes from taking an idea to shipping it, with anything that helps you do it easier, better, or faster would be an interesting read.
  - pud 13y ago
    That would be fun to write. Maybe it should be my first Medium.com post.
jcampbell1 13y ago
Do you worry about spam? e.g. people using your service to upload typo-squatted songs, or stolen music. It seems like it would be difficult to police 10 bad actors with the revenue from 5000. It seems iTunes already has this problem. See "Time of your Life" by Greedy. LOL.
- pud 13y ago
  I am worried a little. Right now I keep an eye on the users who upload the most stuff daily. If I suddenly see one person upload 500 songs in a row (which I did once), I'll investigate. As the service (hopefully) grows, I may need to come up with other ways to police it. Fortunately Apple and Spotify and Google and Amazon have systems to detect spam as well.
zackkitzmiller 13y ago
You still using coldfusion for everything?
- pud 13y ago
  The main backend code is ColdFusion. There's a lot of Javascript in the front end, and some PHP also in the backend. And some Applescript (seriously). And some Bash scripts.
thetrumanshow 13y ago
Hi Pud, I actually worked with Gary Burke on an early-early version of TuneCore. I just... could never imagine how it would make money back then. Maybe I simply underestimated the number of artists willing to pay for this (probably). I guess my #1 question has always been: How on earth did you get access rights to the API to do this... and how on earth did Gary do that way back when (if you have any idea)? Thanks!

If anyone cares, feel free to Ask Me Anything :)

by pud 13y ago

If anyone cares, feel free to Ask Me Anything :)

antidaily 13y ago

How are you so goddamned productive?

pud 13y ago
I don't feel productive. For example, it's 10:37am and I'm still in bed, tapping this out on my iPhone. I do launch a lot of stuff though. I think most of it is fairly MVP (Minimum Viable Product, as the kids say...:) and not super complicated. If/when one of my projects becomes popular, then I tack on the complicated stuff. Also, when I'm building things, I have this irrational fear that some competitor (real or imagined) is building the exact same thing. So I work as fast as I can, as late into the night as I can. So I can beat them to launch.
j45 13y ago
Cosigned - a post about your processes from taking an idea to shipping it, with anything that helps you do it easier, better, or faster would be an interesting read.
- pud 13y ago
  That would be fun to write. Maybe it should be my first Medium.com post.

jcampbell1 13y ago

Do you worry about spam? e.g. people using your service to upload typo-squatted songs, or stolen music. It seems like it would be difficult to police 10 bad actors with the revenue from 5000. It seems iTunes already has this problem. See "Time of your Life" by Greedy. LOL.

pud 13y ago
I am worried a little. Right now I keep an eye on the users who upload the most stuff daily. If I suddenly see one person upload 500 songs in a row (which I did once), I'll investigate. As the service (hopefully) grows, I may need to come up with other ways to police it. Fortunately Apple and Spotify and Google and Amazon have systems to detect spam as well.

zackkitzmiller 13y ago

You still using coldfusion for everything?

pud 13y ago
The main backend code is ColdFusion. There's a lot of Javascript in the front end, and some PHP also in the backend. And some Applescript (seriously). And some Bash scripts.

thetrumanshow 13y ago

Hi Pud, I actually worked with Gary Burke on an early-early version of TuneCore. I just... could never imagine how it would make money back then. Maybe I simply underestimated the number of artists willing to pay for this (probably). I guess my #1 question has always been: How on earth did you get access rights to the API to do this... and how on earth did Gary do that way back when (if you have any idea)? Thanks!