| I'm someone who's been in the music industry for many, many years. This reminds me a bit of a platform called mixtape (I think) that was in this vein. Here are a few thoughts and hopefully helpful feedback: - your net is too broad. genre is meaningless in 2024 but what's the heuristic for inclusion here? You're up against some very powerful recommendation algos. We can complain about those algos all day but functionally and practically, the Spotify algo is pretty good or good enough. So what's the leg up here? - I'm having a hard time understanding what's different about this site from any other previous incarnation of music blog - which applied a level of curation that was reliable. What if instead of just dumping tracks on the front page, you used curators to present new music, and those curators were expressed as personalities with tastes? - It looks like the heuristic here isn't curation or subjectivity, it's just whoever can send the most fans to the page to upvote new music. I don't see how that gains users. At best, it turns into one of those sites you see on Facebook where people ask for votes for contests. - There isn't a lot of differentiation in your information presentation from Spotify. It'd be great to see more about the band and the song when clicking on it. Spotify has been moving into this direction for a while but their issue is scaling metadata; not a problem at your scale right now. Why not ask for more info, or something exclusive to your site? At this point you're really just rehashing spotify links. Small technical feedback - the play button on the track listings should turn into a pause button. I have to hit play, but in order to pause it, I have to find and then move to a separate button. Shouldn't it be the same button? |