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Songkick (YC S07) iPhone app: 100,000 concerts in your pocket(evolver.fm)
42 points by ian 15y ago|5 comments
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by ian 16y ago
We wanted to be based in one of the live music capitals of the world to be close to our industry and were torn between New York and London. It could have quite easily gone either way. Over the last few years Europe has become quite a strong
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by ian 17y ago
Last.fm's data is amazing, and definitely more valuable than ours for predicting trends in recorded music. We focus 100% on live music though, so have some interesting information of our own on the concert industry - for example which ticke
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by ian 17y ago
will fix that, thanks for the heads up.
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by ian 17y ago
I'm not really sure how Compete could be getting that from our stats. We've actually seen some nice growth over the past year. Maybe I should just get our site quantified and put it all out there via Quantcast. Alexa is usually the most acc
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by ian 17y ago
Hey Ian from Songkick here, bands in town didn't plagiarise us, we launched around the same time back in 2007. They're good guys.
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by ian 17y ago
If any of you guys are going to shows soon and use twitter, we'd love your feedback.
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by ian 18y ago
Sounds good. I'm @soundboy on twitter. That was the easiest way to organise things last time.
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by ian 18y ago
Yeah I agree, I think any future speakers will aim for 30 mins max. The Erlang guys did an awesome job, my fault for not setting clearer guidelines...
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by ian 18y ago
That's exactly what the demos are for - each month about 4-5 hackers spend 5 mins each demoing something cool they've built. Would be great to check out your project at the next one.
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by ian 18y ago
We've got a some start-ups & hackers doing demos as usual, but no formal speaker for this one. Will be organising speakers for some of the upcoming meetups. How did you find the Erlang one? Anyone you'd particularly like to see speak?
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Reminder - London Hacker Meetup #7 tomorrow night(facebook.com)
31 points by ian 18y ago|11 comments
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by ian 18y ago
An interesting piece on the subject here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/nov/08/gender.weekend7
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by ian 18y ago
One way in which this can occur is if you raise a seed round in convertible debt which converts into preferred stock at a following Series A.
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by ian 18y ago
Glad to hear it!
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by ian 18y ago
Thanks very much guys for the kind words
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by ian 18y ago
Congratulations guys, get those black t-shirts on!
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by ian 18y ago
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by ian 18y ago
2 thoughts: 1. it's really cool how many locations they've funded companies in 2. Eric Marcoullier does a mean robot dance
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by ian 18y ago
Massive congratulations to Drew and Arash
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London Hacker Meetup tonight @ Songkick hq(facebook.com)
6 points by ian 18y ago|0 comments
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by ian 18y ago
Totally agree, I've wanted this to exist for a while. Thanks guys.
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by ian 18y ago
hey man i'm sorry to hear we've missed some of the stuff you go to. it's a big priority for us to go right to the very end of the tail. we have though got pretty much every ticketed concert in the UK and US listed so would love to see examp
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Songbird beta launches (includes integration with Songkick for concert tickets)(arstechnica.com)
40 points by ian 18y ago|8 comments
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by ian 18y ago
Hey Omakase, if you've had trouble finding tickets check out Songkick. We've built the largest database (over 20 ticket vendors now) of ticketed concerts in the world so hopefully can help.
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by ian 18y ago
nice work Babul. Peter (Nixey) and Harj are the masters of US Visa stuff. Let us (Songkick) know if you've got any questions about applying to YC from the UK. Happy to chat on Skype. You can also grab me at one of our Hacker Meetups if in L
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by ian 18y ago
Updated! Sorry about that.
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by ian 18y ago
Sorry about that truebosko. We're working on extending our coverage to Canada & Australia over the next months. We focused initially on getting as comprehensive as possible in the UK and US (focusing on doing a good job in a specific ni
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by ian 18y ago
we (Songkick) have already built an aggregator for concert tickets - covering 17 ticket vendors in the UK and US. If you're looking for gig tickets I'd love your feedback. Thanks
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by ian 18y ago
We did as well and they saved us a fair bit of cash - not to mention the hassle of figuring out what vanilla terms should look like.

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