Flock.fm
Consumer and social
music discovery
SHOW HN2011
25points
16comments
#423of 1,097 in 2011
Top 39%of 2011 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
2 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 1 critical, out of 10 comments about the project. Thread score -0.02.
Design: 0 for, 1 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Good visual design
From 1 comment
I'm confused by where this music is coming from. After digging into the about page, I finally understood that people are uploading music but it wasn't readily apparent when I…
jianshen on HN
Fun for discovering new artists
From 1 comment
How do "cool points" work? Also, there doesn't seem to be an easy way to search for specific artists or tracks. Otherwise, I like the idea and had some fun discovering new artists.
sniW on HN
Custom stream by artist or genre works well
From 1 comment
I was able to get some pretty good results using the custom stream feature (by artist, by genre), but yeah you're right it's not the same as a full featured search.
ap3mantus on HN
Objections
Autoplay music is annoying
From 2 comments
Is it really the best idea to auto-play music? It feels like a web design cardinal sin.
estel on HNBy negative feedback do you mean people emailing you, or any automated metrics you're using? Are you guys doing some sort of A/B testing on this? I find it terribly annoying when…
bonobo on HN
Unclear where the music comes from
From 1 comment
I'm confused by where this music is coming from. After digging into the about page, I finally understood that people are uploading music but it wasn't readily apparent when I…
jianshen on HN
No search for artists or tracks
From 1 comment
How do "cool points" work? Also, there doesn't seem to be an easy way to search for specific artists or tracks. Otherwise, I like the idea and had some fun discovering new artists.
sniW on HN
Requests
Add search for artists and tracks
From 1 comment
Think of cool points as HN karma. You get points if things are hearted after you heart them (double if you were the original person to share them). Search will come soon...that's…
snikolic on HN
Make autoplay optional
From 1 comment
By negative feedback do you mean people emailing you, or any automated metrics you're using? Are you guys doing some sort of A/B testing on this? I find it terribly annoying when…
bonobo on HN
Clearer music upload and sharing
From 1 comment
I should add that we're beginning work on a new system for uploading tracks (or just pasting URLS to audio files or SoundCloud). That should make it much easier to share, and…
snikolic on HN
Questions
How do cool points work?
From 1 comment
How do "cool points" work? Also, there doesn't seem to be an easy way to search for specific artists or tracks. Otherwise, I like the idea and had some fun discovering new artists.
sniW on HN
How is this different from Console.fm?
From 1 comment
Aren't http://Console.fm doing this with genres and other features? What does this do that's different? Are the playlists based upon anything?
brackin on HN
Alternatives named
Console.fm
From 1 comment
Aren't http://Console.fm doing this with genres and other features? What does this do that's different? Are the playlists based upon anything?
brackin on HN
Muxtape
From 1 comment
By negative feedback do you mean people emailing you, or any automated metrics you're using? Are you guys doing some sort of A/B testing on this? I find it terribly annoying when…
bonobo on HN