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by subby 3040 days ago
Hi guys, thanks a lot for your feedback!! I certainly should have done a better job of communicating my service's core value/distinction! In short, the main idea behind my service is that, whenever you open the app throughout the day, we'll instantly curate and provide you with different music mixes that align with your tastes and go along with what you're doing (such as upbeat tracks for commuting to work, relaxing music for the evening, etc.).

So when you're at a cafe, for example, we can automatically detect that and instantly serve you with "focus" mixes of songs that you'll love, without having to pre-curate a public, editorial playlist of focus tracks (which aren't personalized to YOU).

In fact, a main point in our service is that, unlike Spotify & Apple Music, we actually DON'T manually curate public editorial playlists (since this can lead to generic & unpersonalized recommendations). Rather, we've built an AI technology that can accurately extract emotions/moods from music, which can help you discover more of the music you love-- on-demand.

For example, you can tell the app to play some "relaxing music," and we'll instantly serve with you with music that's relaxing (which we didn't have to manually curate for you). As a result, you're not limited to any editorial selections, and the music you get once won't be the same as what someone else gets, etc.

Finally, it's actually different from Spotify in many ways:

On a high level, Spotify Radio operates by playing you similarly-liked music, based on the tracks that you & others like/dislike. This can sometimes leads to uninteresting recommendations, since just because you like rap and classical doesn't mean you want to listen to both at the same time in a radio session! However, as mentioned before, I've built an AI that accurately extract emotions/moods from the music you listen to, enabling my service to not only better understand your personal tastes (as opposed to using "similarly-liked" songs like Spotify Radio) but also serve you with music that actually sound similar.

So if you don't like to listen to aggressive, rap in the night, we can automatically learn that & improve the recommendations you get instantly.

We don't use playlists, since they're static and don't instantly adapt to the user's tastes & behavior (and are often manually curated & created once per day/week). Rather, we're able to use our A.I tech to act as your personal music "concierge," serving you an ever-changing music mix that dynamically adapts to your likes, in real-time.

We're also different from Pandora, because Pandora is a service that's more oriented towards artist-based music recommendations, whereas the main point of our service is to get you the right music that aligns with your tastes & what you're currently doing at the moment (your context), whether it's commuting, exercising, unwinding, etc.

Does this give you more insight into my service, guys? What do you guys think?

Once again, thanks for your feedback!! I've learned a lot from you guys so far! Really appreciate it!