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Ask HN: Review my startup: seevl.fm (free music discovery)

5 points by terraces 13y ago

Hey all We've recently launched seevl.fm, a free, unlimited and targeted music discovery platform: - Find music by genre, record labels, etc. - Know more about your favorite artists (influences, band members, etc.) - Discover how artists are connected to each other - Find and follow other music fans to discover more music - Generate your own mixtape automatically All or this with an unlimited listening experience through YouTube music videos! If you're using Chrome, it's available at https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/seevlfm/cgejiabpndbkmhcippjgajbmffhofadd For other browsers: http://seevl.fm Any feedback would be appreciated, thanks a lot! Alex. NB: If you're not using Chrome, you can access it at http://seevl.fm

joebo 13y ago
Searching for a band that's not in your database gives a blank response. I searched for mumford and sons and got nothing back. Once I figured out how to search it worked reasonable well. I like that it starts playing videos and has music available.
- terraces 13y ago
  Sorry about the issue - we've fixed the message when nothing is found. We'll make sure to improve the way we handle with spelling issues!
contextual 13y ago
Doesn't work on my BlackBerry Z30 browser. The site doesn't load. Consider that many will visit your site on mobile, and design accordingly. Good luck with Seevl!
- terraces 13y ago
  We're experiencing issues on some mobile devices - thanks for the heads up about the BlackBerry browser!
ScottWhigham 13y ago
Nice. I searched for "jazz" and got what I thought was just a generic/scraped page about jazz (no recommendations, just general "What is jazz" stuff). It wasn't until I scrolled way down that I saw the artists. I was about to close the window - "What is this? There's nothing for me to do. I already know what jazz is!" So it looks like the list is scrolled by artist first name. Yikes. How do you get the track licensing? I clicked on Alex Skolnick, for example, who is not a jazz artist. Will he get a royalty as a result? Are there commercials?
- terraces 13y ago
  Thanks for the comment about the scroll, we'll consider this to make the results more obvious! For the licensing, we're using the YouTube API, so the royalties are managed directly via the YouTube program. We also have a Deezer app, in that case, it's through Deezer directly

5 points by terraces 13y ago

joebo 13y ago

Searching for a band that's not in your database gives a blank response. I searched for mumford and sons and got nothing back. Once I figured out how to search it worked reasonable well. I like that it starts playing videos and has music available.

terraces 13y ago
Sorry about the issue - we've fixed the message when nothing is found. We'll make sure to improve the way we handle with spelling issues!

contextual 13y ago

Doesn't work on my BlackBerry Z30 browser. The site doesn't load. Consider that many will visit your site on mobile, and design accordingly. Good luck with Seevl!

terraces 13y ago
We're experiencing issues on some mobile devices - thanks for the heads up about the BlackBerry browser!

ScottWhigham 13y ago

Nice. I searched for "jazz" and got what I thought was just a generic/scraped page about jazz (no recommendations, just general "What is jazz" stuff). It wasn't until I scrolled way down that I saw the artists. I was about to close the window - "What is this? There's nothing for me to do. I already know what jazz is!" So it looks like the list is scrolled by artist first name. Yikes. How do you get the track licensing? I clicked on Alex Skolnick, for example, who is not a jazz artist. Will he get a royalty as a result? Are there commercials?

terraces 13y ago
Thanks for the comment about the scroll, we'll consider this to make the results more obvious! For the licensing, we're using the YouTube API, so the royalties are managed directly via the YouTube program. We also have a Deezer app, in that case, it's through Deezer directly