alexirobbins

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by alexirobbins 13y ago
Thanks! and welcome to hn - We're very focused on live music, but that would definitely be a cool service!
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by alexirobbins 13y ago
Can I ask where you live? We're really interested in tuning the suggestions to population/venue density :)
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by alexirobbins 13y ago
Definitely! We're working on improving our ticket price info right now so we can know when shows are sold out etc.
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by alexirobbins 13y ago
Thanks! Definitely something we're interested in, there's a great startup here in SF called WillCall that is working with venues to sell last minute tickets too. They rock!
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by alexirobbins 13y ago
No there's a quick 2-step signup system that makes picking artists really fast. We did a lot of polling and most of the people who go to shows weren't using iTunes on their phone :/ and they liked picking genres and artists.
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by alexirobbins 13y ago
We founded first, and they're a concert listing app, not suggestions. They're really cool guys though and they gave us some really helpful design advice :)
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by alexirobbins 13y ago
We just launched for iPhone, and we would love to offer a web interface as well as an Android version as well :) We're a small team, and we didn't have the resources to build all three for launch.
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by alexirobbins 13y ago
If we want an openweb, advocacy won't cut it over the long haul. open is currently just less efficient at distributing + monetizing content. That's what we need to change, not the minds and paychecks of developers.
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by alexirobbins 14y ago
I think you're touching on a really interesting subject, which namank elaborated on in his comment. It's too early to tell, but it seems education is heading in a more 'intrinsic' direction, with less structure and more exploration. On the
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by alexirobbins 14y ago
Maybe it was the 3 pizzas? Seriously, what 18 year-old has that kind of money to blow on pizzas...
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by alexirobbins 14y ago
Oh interesting, did you build your own collaborative filtering engine? or are the artist recommendations from somewhere else? I'm sorry if I came off as a snob, I intended that to be really a direct reply to gfodor and not as an attack on 2
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by alexirobbins 14y ago
I think that what we're seeing is actually just one service being repackaged as many. Echonest provides the data supporting all of these services, so it makes sense that they all look very similar and that there is no remarkable difference
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by alexirobbins 14y ago
What are the indicators of failure that you focused on?
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by alexirobbins 14y ago
but the other goes down by the same amount... right?
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by alexirobbins 14y ago
Do you think it would make sense to issue X shares for each site, and then split the shares at Y value? And in real stock exchanges, companies issue shares of the company, so they have real value. InTrade links its share value to the likeli
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by alexirobbins 14y ago
ask for socials? square does it..
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by alexirobbins 14y ago
This is fantastic! I've been considering this idea for a while - it 1) could become a legitimate way to invest in tech startups, and 2) could inform smarter investment - the best startups can get spotted faster. Great job making it! EDIT: i
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by alexirobbins 14y ago
Point taken, bad idea. But they would need to back up a rebranding with new and innovative products that demonstrate vision. I shouldn't pretend to know what those products should be, or how they should be sold.
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by alexirobbins 14y ago
The "slate" logo is okay. The promise of delivering the future is brilliant. I had the same exact reaction to it - there needs to be a multi-billion dollar company devoted to this philosophy! I think microsoft is in a unique position to bec
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by alexirobbins 14y ago
I have been working on a solution to exactly this issue. What we came up with is a crowd-sourcing artist discovery system that lets users find the best up-and-coming acts, keep up with their favorite artists (and buy their merch), and recei
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by alexirobbins 15y ago
I agree, anything that is designed with the intention of being used by people must unify functionality with visual appeal. The best way to do this is to have those creating it involved with both sides of development.