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by testb 3049 days ago
Hey I live near UCSD (recently graduated) and I've love to talk more about what you're doing. Feel free to ping me - details in profile.

Initial feedback: I'm kinda confused by mysongsnap vs galiboo? Like other commentators have mentioned my first thoughts are to find what differentiates you from pandora, spotify, or even youtube and what additional value you can offer beyond similar existing services. I think your landing page did a great job of communicating your initial proposition but I'd wish you explained more HOW you're 100x better than Spotify Radio and Discovery weekly.

I did poke around your demo at galiboo and some of the tags seem contradictory? Like simultaneously being 'Emotion-Pleasant / Comfortable Emotion-Arousing / AwakeningEmotion-Powerful / Strong' and I could definitely forsee this almost being an API service.

Overall I think if you can execute+deliver there's people who are definitely interested in better music discovery and I'd love to see it happen!

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Hey testb! Thanks a lot for your feedback! It's awesome to know that you're from UCSD also!!

I would definitely love to talk with you, but I don't see any contact details under your profile..

To address your thoughts, sorry for the confusion! Songsnap is the name of the music streaming service and Galiboo is the name of my startup.

Also, out of curiosity, which name do you think would be better for the music streaming service? :)

Moreover, I've given a little info of how I'm different than Spotify, Pandora, etc. in my comment above.

I would absolutely love for you to check it out!

It's great to know that you tried out the demo!

The main tech that powers my music streaming service (and makes it a lot different & better) is an AI that can extract emotions/tags from music (which is the thing you saw at demo.galiboo.com).

In fact, the tags it output actually have weights associated with them (indicating their relative importance), which I don't visually show in the demo. I just realized that this can probably cause a little confusion!

Also, the funny things is that I have actually built an API for it: apidocs.galiboo.com

But I wasn't sure if developers in general would love to use it.

What do you think?

Also, I would love to connect with you! I couldn't find any details on your profile, but it would be nice if we could connect another way!

Thanks a lot!