Show HN: Live Music Chat and Listening Parties https://ift.tt/t0xW3J9

Show HN: Live Music Chat and Listening Parties Hello HN, Vincent here. Working on a new product, for music lovers and musicians alike. Musicians that are starting out and new bands have a hard time getting exposure. I have a lot of musician friends and have been contemplating this problem for a few years now. I just sat down to code this thing up a few days ago, so pardon the rough edges, but the concept is there. Real-time chat around albums and tracks as a focus. How it works: We have some musicians who love writing words about sound and music, we call them "editors" and they write, manually, not chatGPT, manually, reviews for albums and tracks submitted to our DB. "Well, that doesn't scale at all!" you might think. Yup. It does not scale. So we are doing pre-sales to help raise funds, to be self-funded as much as possible, and to remunerate our busy editor team for their valuable time. For a paying membership, musicians (and music lovers) get one priority review request per month. This means your track that you made, or album you made, (or album you love, not necessarily your creation), will get reviewed by one of our editors and added to our Database. Once a track or album is in our database, other paying members can write their own review of it. If you stop paying your reviews will stay up on the site, but only paying members have access to live chat which is the "listening parties" aspect -- you can navigate to an album page and listen to an album with others, and chat about it if you like. We have some "ambient presence" features in development, like the music notes you see bubbling across the screen when a user sends a chat message. You can get a sense of the other people online, and share, in an uncluttered and complementary way, music. I wrote a small post on our website, and our website will eventually point straight to the new app (right now it is the blog/wordpress). https://ift.tt/NcD0Sou At that post you can find the short 3 minute video I recorded to demo the product. That video can be found directly by going here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH7BDFM8_NM And if you are ready to help, there is a stripe checkout link available here. Special Pre-Sale rate. I hope it's kosher to post it here, if not, we can remove ^.^ https://ift.tt/7DReCsm Alright, thanks! As far as feedback goes, uh, pay me if you want to see this thing. Feedback will be more welcome once the actual product is tangible and you can try it out. For now, maybe just enjoy the fact that I'm working on something crazy and different x) Oh and if you also see the potential for how awesome this is going to be, lock in that pre-sale pretty please with treble on top and bass on the bottom. March 2, 2023 at 05:40AM