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by pud 13y ago
Yes. You can specify which stores you want to be on.
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by pud 13y ago
CD Baby takes a percentage of your royalties forever. DistroKid doesn't. TuneCore charges a (much larger) annual fee.
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by pud 13y ago
DistroKid makes money from the $19.99/year. DistroKid collects royalties & pays out monthly. I also founded AdBrite which paid out several million dollars per month, if that adds to DistroKid's credibility. And the good thing
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by pud 13y ago
All the stores have different requirements. One store requires 2500x2500 artwork, another requires FLAC audio, etc. So when users upload audio or video to DistroKid, everything gets converted to appease all the different stores. Right now t
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by pud 13y ago
It's actually free for anyone to submit to Pandora: http://submitmusic.pandora.com/ I may figure out a way to automatically submit there from DistroKid (so there's one less thing the artist needs to do), but in th
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by pud 13y ago
A few other people have also suggested I raise the price. If "too many customers" becomes a problem (increase in customer service expenses, etc) I'd consider it. But right now that's not an issue and I love that it'
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by pud 13y ago
What!!! Yeah!
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by pud 13y ago
Thanks! Hope so. Just really wanted something where as a musician, I can just upload my music to stores without really giving it much thought. Kinda like how anyone can upload to YouTube easy cheesy.
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by pud 13y ago
Founder/OP here. Totally agree. Funny how things change: Old technology for music discovery was FM radio. Today it's YouTube's related videos and stuff people are tweeting. I encourage all musicians to make videos for their m
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What I've been up to for the past year(pud.com)
616 points by pud 13y ago|171 comments
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Sonus silentii fallacy (pud.com)
34 points by pud 13y ago|31 comments
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by pud 13y ago
Semi-unrelated: To me, this page of screenshots did a better job of helping me discover new iPhone apps -- than any other attempt I've seen. And it's unintentional.
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by pud 13y ago
:)
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by pud 13y ago
That video of the Reddit co-founder struggling to use the product & struggling to say something good about it made me cringe a little. They should work on a better testimonial video.
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by pud 13y ago
Anyone else hoping they'd lose the exclamation mark? I think the "!" comes off as corny and condescending to users.
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by pud 13y ago
Quip is Bret Taylor's new company. Bret founded Google Maps and FriendFeed. Then he was CTO of Facebook for 3 years. So this should be interesting.
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by pud 13y ago
Problem with Google Maps' iPhone implementation (double-tap, then slide) is that it's unintuitive. Source: I didn't know it existed before now. (It's awesome btw, thanks!)
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by pud 13y ago
Ashton Kutcher plays Steve Jobs in the new movie and did a crazy amount of research for the role. He listened to hundreds of Steve's talks, studied art & topics that influenced Jobs, read Jobs' favorite books, obsessed over hi
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by pud 13y ago
I have that problem to. I've found that the best motivator for finishing the boring parts is to have real users. After receiving your 20th "I forgot my password" email, you're sure to build that reset-password feature.
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by pud 13y ago
Photo was taken (by my mom) with an old 35mm point-and-shoot. I scanned the print recently, using a modern scanner.
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by pud 13y ago
Pepsi made a clear cola in the early 90's called Crystal Pepsi: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Pepsi Here's an old pic of me drinking it. (and eating a turkey leg). http://i.imgur.com/T1
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by pud 13y ago
Bose got a bad rap. In the 80's, everyone agreed Bose products were pretty but overpriced. Unfortunately that reputation stuck. These days, we all gladly pay extra for good aesthetic design (see: Apple, and almost every electronic giz
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by 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.
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by 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 c
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by pud 13y ago
That would be fun to write. Maybe it should be my first Medium.com post.
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by 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
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by pud 13y ago
If anyone cares, feel free to Ask Me Anything :)
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New Service (by me, solo) Lets Musicians Sell On Itunes For Cheap(forbes.com)
14 points by pud 13y ago|12 comments
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by pud 13y ago
Here is the cake: http://youtu.be/oAiVsbXVP6k
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by pud 13y ago
Brilliant use of Vine for the demo! And speaking of PayPal: Max Levchin, who co-founded PayPal, recently founded Affirm, which appears to be a competitor. https://affirm.com/

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