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shameless plug time We're not an all-you-can-eat type of service, but with BoomboxFM[1] we've been working on something like this. Every week we send you 3 song

shameless plug time We're not an all-you-can-eat type of service, but with BoomboxFM[1] we've been working on something like this. Every week we send you 3 songs from 3 different independent / undiscovered artists, personalized to your genre preferences. Songs are free to download. That's it, nice and easy. We're one week from demo day in our accelerator (TSF in N.C.) and actually use the "4mm songs have never been played on Spotify" in the opening of our pitch. What a lot of people are missing right now - amidst all the fighting about crappy payouts from streaming services and still shady labels - is that even if the payouts were amazing the lesser-known artists still need fans to know about them in order to get plays. As David Foster Wallace said (paraphrasing), "without gatekeepers/curators, we're all gonna be bodysurfing through shit 95% of the time online." [1] http://www.boombox.fm/ http://www.boombox.fm/

quinndupont 11y ago
Looks awesome. I'm signing up now. (Unsolicited advice: the green "Click here to join!" call to action has a kind of "spammy" feel to it... I can't quite put my finger on it, but I feel like between the color and the font and the generic wording I feel like I'm about about to sign up with a spam service. The orange call to action below it is much better. My 2c.)
- petejodo 11y ago
  I agree. I think it's also because the button is a non-flat design on a rather flat designed page and sticks out
- Disruptive_Dave 11y ago
  I can't argue with that! And appreciate the feedback. The site is actually built on a template service (Strikingly), so we're a bit hindered right now. Working on that, though. LOTS of things we'd like to improve upon with the site and overall product, but we're tackling things in our wheelhouse first (I'm a marketing/BD guy, non tech). Enjoy the tunes!
realusername 11y ago
Thanks for putting this here ! It looks really good and it's exactly the kind of service I was looking for, I'm subscribing ! (If I can provide some feedback, the Join button looks a bit strange, it looks a bit like some advertising so I did not even see it first)
Disruptive_Dave 11y ago
TIL - our join button sucks. Good to know, will get on that! Thanks guys.

quinndupont 11y ago

Looks awesome. I'm signing up now. (Unsolicited advice: the green "Click here to join!" call to action has a kind of "spammy" feel to it... I can't quite put my finger on it, but I feel like between the color and the font and the generic wording I feel like I'm about about to sign up with a spam service. The orange call to action below it is much better. My 2c.)

petejodo 11y ago
I agree. I think it's also because the button is a non-flat design on a rather flat designed page and sticks out
Disruptive_Dave 11y ago
I can't argue with that! And appreciate the feedback. The site is actually built on a template service (Strikingly), so we're a bit hindered right now. Working on that, though. LOTS of things we'd like to improve upon with the site and overall product, but we're tackling things in our wheelhouse first (I'm a marketing/BD guy, non tech). Enjoy the tunes!

realusername 11y ago

Thanks for putting this here ! It looks really good and it's exactly the kind of service I was looking for, I'm subscribing ! (If I can provide some feedback, the Join button looks a bit strange, it looks a bit like some advertising so I did not even see it first)

Disruptive_Dave 11y ago

TIL - our join button sucks. Good to know, will get on that! Thanks guys.