Musicfellas
Consumer and social
music discovery
SHOW HN2013
114points
82comments
#197of 1,739 in 2013
Top 12%of 2013 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
14 positive, 27 neutral or asking, 8 mixed, 12 critical, out of 61 comments about the project. Thread score +0.01.
Design: 5 for, 3 againstIdea: 3 for, 2 againstPerformance: 0 for, 4 againstExecution: 0 for, 3 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Clean, intuitive design
From 3 comments
I really like the design. Your logo is especially nice. There are a lot of buttons, but the interface seems to be well organized. I got a good selection of music just from the…
ollerac on HNI really like the design, it's much cleaner than Spotify or Rdio. A few things though: - I have an error icon next to my name in the sidebar, that says I need to complete my…
randomchars on HNDude! This is awesome. Outside of the idea. I love how simple and amazing your UI is. Its light and brilliantly intuitive. I have been using everything from grooveshark, new…
phusuke on HN
Good discovery of indie artists
From 2 comments
I think one thing that's nice about this is a much smaller inventory to sort through that gives some front page exposure specifically to indie artists. I played around with this…
sharkweek on HNThe design looks good, and I've been playing the music for half an hour (/hot/) and it seems to be excellent so far. Good job. I hope there's an API or a mobile app plan in the…
alphakappa on HN
Objections
Hot songs list is an unfocused mix without genre filtering
From 3 comments
Two points of feedback; 1. No one I know wants to browse "independent music" as an amorphous blob of everything lumped together. On the initial "Hot Songs" page, I had absolutely…
onion2k on HNAgreed, why isn't there something for genre? I searched for 'techno' and got 4 results from some electro-acoustic band with a female vocalist, which is about the exact opposite…
anigbrowl on HNVery clean design and the UI is really nice to use - great site and great music :) I would suggest however to show genre on the "What's Hot" list or add filtering by genre like…
pkorzeniewski on HN
Missing Last.fm scrobbling
From 1 comment
I really like the design, it's much cleaner than Spotify or Rdio. A few things though: - I have an error icon next to my name in the sidebar, that says I need to complete my…
randomchars on HN
Slow loading full-size images and Flash dependency
From 3 comments
cool design! the images load quite slow tho, inspecting them shows that they are fullsize images even when used as mini-icons. quite noticable on all pages...
alternize on HNthumbnail those images! you'll drastically cut page speed. other than that, site looks good!
lowkaseo on HNNice work. FYI the flash blocker in chrome doesn't register that there's flash content on the site. I had to click around quite a bit in order to get an option to enable flash.…
Sym3tri on HN
Requests
Genre filtering and genre on hot list
From 2 comments
Very clean design and the UI is really nice to use - great site and great music :) I would suggest however to show genre on the "What's Hot" list or add filtering by genre like…
pkorzeniewski on HNAgreed, why isn't there something for genre? I searched for 'techno' and got 4 results from some electro-acoustic band with a female vocalist, which is about the exact opposite…
anigbrowl on HN
Radio based on song or artist
From 1 comment
I really like the design. Your logo is especially nice. There are a lot of buttons, but the interface seems to be well organized. I got a good selection of music just from the…
ollerac on HN
Public API
From 2 comments
This looks cool! Is there or will there be an API at some point so I could potentially build native clients?
jurre on HNThe design looks good, and I've been playing the music for half an hour (/hot/) and it seems to be excellent so far. Good job. I hope there's an API or a mobile app plan in the…
alphakappa on HN
Lossless FLAC downloads
From 1 comment
They should definitely add FLAC downloads like bandcamp.
egeozcan on HN
Questions
How artist approval and curation work
From 2 comments
How long do artist song approvals take? I submitted a second one about an hour ago, but the first took until the next day. Just curious :)
lux on HNAmazing. I just signed up my music project, and while I'm really glad to see you've made the path for artists to get on the service easy, I'm curious what sort of gatekeeping /…
mortenjorck on HN
How the company differs from Spotify and Bandcamp
From 2 comments
It's interesting to me that you see yourself as spotify + itunes, as the comparison that immediately struck me is Bandcamp + recommendations and the ability to queue up tracks.…
tfinch on HNGood job, buy why Spotify rather than just a music player?
nicklovescode on HN
Alternatives named
Spotify
From 2 comments
AFAIK, there is independent music on Spotify. I've seen a lot of small artists on it and the platform has a lot of visibility so most of these artists will try to go there. So I…
louhike on HNGood job, buy why Spotify rather than just a music player?
nicklovescode on HN
Bandcamp
From 2 comments
It's interesting to me that you see yourself as spotify + itunes, as the comparison that immediately struck me is Bandcamp + recommendations and the ability to queue up tracks.…
tfinch on HNI cannot seem to figure out how an Indian startup has mostly foreign artists. I am asking because couple of years back, I tried to do the same thing and licensing was the biggest…
acidity on HN
Amie Street
From 1 comment
I really like the design. Your logo is especially nice. There are a lot of buttons, but the interface seems to be well organized. I got a good selection of music just from the…
ollerac on HN
Songza
From 1 comment
I like like this, and I want to support independent artists, but consider grouping similar songs together like Songza does. My .02. Congrats on the great site and what seems like…
selfexperiments on HN