[HN Gopher] Show HN: BandMatch - "Tinder" but for finding musici...
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Show HN: BandMatch - "Tinder" but for finding musicians to create
bands/collab
Author : pg5
Score : 195 points
Date : 2024-05-03 18:11 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| 999900000999 wrote:
| Cool idea, but I'm not giving you my location. Please allow me to
| select a city manually.
| pg5 wrote:
| I figured that "allow once, approximate location" would be
| sufficient for the privacy conscious.
|
| A little scared to make it selectable, as it would make it much
| easier for spammers/scammers to target locations, as the only
| verification is email. I do realize they can still change their
| location that with an emulator.
| 999900000999 wrote:
| You're only keeping honest people out. It's trivial to spoof
| location on Android.
| feoren wrote:
| > A little scared to make it selectable, as it would make it
| much easier for spammers/scammers to target locations, as the
| only verification is email. I do realize they can still
| change their location that with an emulator.
|
| So there's not really any hurdle at all for automated
| spammers who can fake their location easily, but you're
| making it more difficult for genuine users anyway?
| pg5 wrote:
| My thought process was that clicking allow or allow once
| would be less difficult for genuine users than searching
| for their city.
| hyperadvanced wrote:
| IMO you're losing more people due to the location
| requirement than you are gaining a bad rap from
| scammers/spammers. I just went through the exact
| experience of the above poster, I blanket deny loc
| tracking.
| grumpymouse wrote:
| I'm not going to install this because I'm not looking for a band,
| but it would be cool if you could keep in mind solo musicians
| often need to hire a band in order to play
|
| This could be a good way for people to find that when they don't
| have other musicians in their network who can fill that role for
| them.
| dylan604 wrote:
| seems like something a website could do and not require an app.
| I hope the dev learned a lot about making an app while building
| this, as that seems the only purpose for app only to me. Unless
| they want to get at all of that precious data hoovering money
| potential. I have become so callused and cynical from malicious
| devs, that's my first thought on anything that is an app
| instead of a website
| drusepth wrote:
| I think the "app" form-factor is preferrable to a "website"
| for a lot of people. Almost every website I've built over the
| past 10 years (summing to ~900k-ish users) has had constant
| streams of users always requesting an app alternative to the
| website, quote "even if it's just the regular website in an
| app".
| dylan604 wrote:
| You just described a web app. Go forth and sin no more
| dumbo-octopus wrote:
| People don't like web apps and don't know how to install
| PWA's (by design of the OS manufacturers that make money
| from developers needing to pay to be on their hosted
| platforms). Like it or not, if you tell someone you have
| a product to use on their phone, they're going to want it
| to be in the App Store.
| dylan604 wrote:
| Web apps should be able to be listed in the app stores. I
| understand why people want to find things in the store.
| Younger generations don't really use the internet the way
| us old farts did. Discovery is no longer something that
| SEO and ad driven search makes organic any more, so
| discovery is nearly impossible. Instead of Yahoo style
| search of webpages, we have the curated search of apps
| via stores. Not that the app search is amazing, but it's
| still a smaller subsection than all of the internet which
| makes it easier.
| pg5 wrote:
| A good chunk of my motivation for building this was to get
| learn React native and get experience with building out real-
| time messaging.
| ajakate wrote:
| I downloaded the app, but running into an infinite spinner on the
| main "Artists" tab, so can't really comment on the what the app
| is like...
|
| What I will say is that it seems a little unfortunate that so
| many "matching" apps take the tinder swipe model these days when
| it really makes the matching experience worse.
|
| I have a friend who's a drummer in central Illinois. He's used
| https://www.bandmix.com to find multiple groups that he's been
| jamming with for a while now. The UI is such that you can see a
| grid of all the bands/artists matching your criteria, and can
| facet and filter your search in the sidebar with a lot of other
| options including distance, commitment level, genre, etc.
| pg5 wrote:
| Thanks for checking it out. Ugh, I thought I had fixed the
| infinite spin, but it seems to happen on the first app open
| occasionally still - its related to permissions dialog
|
| I intend to add filtering, but didn't initially because 0
| people use it currently, and also wanted to get an mvp out
| quickly
| FailMore wrote:
| Can't download of find it on the iOS App Store. Based in Uk
| pg5 wrote:
| Ah sorry - initially only launched in the US/Canada because I
| don't have translations set up. I suppose there is no reason to
| not make it available in the UK though.
| benenglish wrote:
| Yes please
| block_dagger wrote:
| Installed iOS version. Looks like I can't even browse content
| without (1) giving away email and (2) entering profile
| information. So I uninstalled it. Please consider showing content
| before you ask for personal info from the user.
| spacebacon wrote:
| I agree, musicians are a finicky bunch. Show profiles and
| onboard after peaking an interest.
| entropicdrifter wrote:
| I agree with this sentiment as well, but my OCD requires me
| to inform you that the word you want is "piquing"
| pg5 wrote:
| That is fair, I may have copied the tinder model too literally.
| willsmith72 wrote:
| i definitely get this sentiment, but as someone who's used
| similar apps for other stuff, i prefer knowing that people who
| are viewing my profile at least had some email verification
|
| yes anyone can use a throwaway email, maybe it's all
| irrational, but i know from user interviews i'm not the only
| one who feels that way
|
| same thing for app vs web. there's at least a feeling that
| scammers/hackers/creeps on the other side of the world have
| less access to my personal info. again maybe it's fake, but the
| perception is there. (otherwise generally i would prefer web >
| app 100 times out of 100)
| Pine_Mushroom wrote:
| App is a dealbreaker for me also. Neat idea though.
| srameshc wrote:
| Great idea, I always wanted to build something to do with music
| and musicians but never did I think of this case. I can see it
| useful and a website instead of an app to begin with will make it
| easier for many to try and test.
| debo_ wrote:
| Drummers are probably going to be the "attractive person"
| equivalent on this app lol
| rozap wrote:
| We did have a drummer but unfortunately he died in a bizarre
| gardening accident.
| hi-v-rocknroll wrote:
| On stage or off? (What? There could be a band that does live
| gardening as part of its routine.)
| toddmorey wrote:
| I heard you've gone through quite a few drummers, actually.
|
| List of Spinal Tap Drummers, all deceased
| https://zeroenthusiasm.tumblr.com/post/47032679583/list-
| of-s...
| RajT88 wrote:
| Now _technically_ he died by choking on his own vomit. But
| the thing is - it wasn 't his vomit. But you can't very well
| fingerprint vomit, innit?
| tnolet wrote:
| What's the difference between a drummer and a drum machine?
|
| You only have to punch the beat into a drum machine once.
|
| (Had bands and multiple drummers. Love'm)
| hi-v-rocknroll wrote:
| My Roland MC-505 is in violent agreement.
| toddmorey wrote:
| Sure, sure but can it still drum when you turn it
| completely upside down like Tommy Lee?
| hi-v-rocknroll wrote:
| As long as the cables reach because it's a drum machine
| running from a program.
|
| You can even go Marty McFly on the ground jamming on the
| keys and kick over the subs if you really want to.
|
| EDIT: PS: If you kick over my sub, your foot will break
| from either the sub itself or this 6 pound sledgehammer
| foot detector. Fair warning.
| bravura wrote:
| What does a drummer use for birth control? Their personality.
|
| (Agree with sibling posts, getting a great drummer is hard and
| amazing.)
| beretguy wrote:
| I'm slow. Can somebody explain all the drummer jokes? What's
| wrong with drummers?
| meowtimemania wrote:
| Often the drum pattern that best fits into a song is
| simple/boring. Maybe stereotypically, it's hard for the
| drummer to resist "overdoing" the drums.
|
| I think there's a metaphor that can be applied to software
| engineers.
| lukas099 wrote:
| There are jokes about all instruments, but some seem to get
| the brunt of them. In orchestra it's the viola
| nineteen999 wrote:
| They beat on things with sticks, like a caveman. It's low
| hanging fruit. The bass player often cops it to a lesser
| extent as well, it's how singers and guitar players retain
| our false sense of superiority. We actually usually love
| our drummers (but only if their playing is on form,
| otherwise they cop abuse).
| commandlinefan wrote:
| Do you know what they call people who hang around with
| musicians?
|
| Drummers.
| maw wrote:
| How do you know that there's a drummer at your door? The
| knocking speeds up.
| jaybrendansmith wrote:
| you meant to say "good drummers"
| htrp wrote:
| Can we page the owners/devs of the app to at least explain what
| they've built and at least answer some questions about it?
| pg5 wrote:
| Hi, I'm here. I built this as an alternative to city-based
| Facebook groups (for people who don't use it) and in part to
| learn React Native.
|
| It lets you create an artist profile, view nearby ones, match
| with them, then have a real-time chat with your matches.
|
| Added a "nearby concerts" tab mainly so that the first adopters
| in new areas would have something useful besides a blank
| screen.
| pvg wrote:
| That's effectively what 'Show HN' means - someone is posting
| their own work and is around to talk about it.
| higgins wrote:
| awesome app! how did you source the initial musicians before
| launch?
| pg5 wrote:
| Thanks! I suppose the answer is that I didn't. It's pretty
| empty right now, besides friends and the results of a recent
| Meta ad campaign.
| jyash97 wrote:
| Wow, I had a similar idea back in 2018 and I created a visual
| prototype for it with bunch of screens and did user interviews.
|
| I didnt get chance to look into the app fully yet, but my idea
| covered musicians and people ( like restaurant owner/mgr or other
| ) to hire musician, I also handled a way to find other band
| members too. Would love to share my idea and details in case you
| are interested
| ktbwrestler wrote:
| Damn this piques my interest, would love to hear more:
|
| jhg7nm at Virginia.edu
| pg5 wrote:
| In my spreadsheet of possible expansions, I do have "artist",
| "band" and "venue" specific profiles and some way to provide
| value to them, but I haven't really thought it through.
| throwaway22032 wrote:
| The League of Legends role selection screen comes to mind...
| pg5 wrote:
| Is that a good or bad thing?
| throwaway22032 wrote:
| Running joke that if you pick support you'll match in 1
| second
| irskep wrote:
| How does this differ from Vampr and Bandmix, which claim to be
| the same thing?
| pg5 wrote:
| Haven't used Vampr. I made this in part because I did not enjoy
| the "retro" UX of BandMix and the fact that you have to pay
| money to send a message.
| irskep wrote:
| It's literally a Tinder-style swipe interface for musician
| matching. I recommend taking a realistic look at your
| competition.
| wizardwes wrote:
| Installed to give it a look, but, sadly, as expected, nobody in
| my area, and concerts are basically non-existent.
| pg5 wrote:
| I considered making my own profile visible to everyone
| regardless of distance.
| wizardwes wrote:
| Would be cute, kinda like MySpace, but I think would detract
| from the experience if there are people in your area, unless
| it was always the first one to show up, and only ever when
| you first open the app
| paxys wrote:
| Unless there are somehow millions of musicians looking to get
| matched in a single city, the "swipe" UI is pointless and will
| just make the whole thing unusable. The search + filter pattern
| for online datasets was perfected many decades ago. Use it.
| Philip-J-Fry wrote:
| Yeah, swiping is a dark pattern employed by dating apps.
|
| Even with millions of users, there's better ways to match
| people up than a simple swipe. It's to keep people at the mercy
| of an algorithm where spending money is the only way to get any
| sort of control over what you see.
|
| It exists only for shady monetisation.
| PaulHoule wrote:
| Actually if you use the same interface for recommendation
| systems for content (say RSS feed items, videos, etc.) you
| get much better results than western content recommenders
| which don't get accurate negative samples. It finally hit me
| the reason I didn't understand a lot of the recommender
| literature is that it doesn't make sense and it's
| transformative to treat recommendation as a classification
| problem the way TikTok does. The real Dark Pattern is that
| YouTube and every other western app looks like
|
| https://marvelpresentssalo.com/wp-
| content/uploads/2015/09/id...
|
| where you can't conclude anything at all because a user
| didn't click on an item. (That and the scan-ignore-repeat UI
| paradigm that has kept RSS readers thoroughly out of the
| mainstream forever)
|
| Even if you want to have a search-based UI it would still
| make sense to show you one match at a time and let you thumbs
| up and thumbs down and have the system remember your choices
| so you can come back next week and look at new items without
| the considerable cognitive burden of ignoring. But say "see
| something once, why see it again?" and people look at you
| like you're a psycho killer. The whole advertising economy
| though is based fundamentally on spamming you with the same
| crap over and over and a 'dislike' button that works
| (negative sampling) would end it overnight, i guess there's a
| reason why you can't explain something to a person whose
| paycheck is based on not understanding it.
| derefr wrote:
| > it's transformative to treat recommendation as a
| classification problem the way TikTok does
|
| Treating recommendation as a classification problem has all
| sorts of flaws, mostly down to normalizing the user's
| indications into a larger model. People will be more
| passive sometimes and more engaged at other times.
| Sometimes they'll blindly accept and watch everything that
| comes along (or blindly swipe right on every match, etc);
| other times they'll be very choosey.
|
| It's kind of the same problems that asking users for star
| ratings has -- people interpret the meaning of "one star"
| or "three stars" or "five stars" differently; and there are
| selection biases on when people will bother to vote at all.
| (The Netflix Prize was a _challenge_ for a reason!)
|
| You can avoid all these temporal and selection biases,
| though, because content recommendation is actually
| ultimately a _ranking_ problem: any recommendation
| algorithm ultimately wants to generate a subjective ranking
| of its universe of items, such that everything gets put in
| a sequence, with the thing the user would most like to see
| next, first.
|
| And conveniently, we already have a mathematically-perfect
| way to do ranking: ELO. Or, in app UX terms: the classical
| HotOrNot design, where you're presented with exactly two
| options, and you have to pick one as being better than the
| other. And you get to see the each option several times,
| paired against different other options each time.
|
| In user-engagement terms, a HotOrNot interface would be
| just as much of a "dark pattern" as a Tinder interface. But
| in recommendation-tuning terms, the backend of a HotOrNot-
| UX app _could_ build you a subjective scoring function that
| 's much more accurate, much sooner.
|
| > you can't conclude anything at all because a user didn't
| click on an item
|
| The real negative signal that sites like YouTube (and to a
| degree, TikTok) use, is landing on something though a more
| passive engagement action (e.g. auto-play next) and this
| inducing engagement in a previously-passively-consuming
| user to "get away" from this content.
| PaulHoule wrote:
| Classification gives you calibrated scores that you can
| use together with other information. A classifier may not
| be the ideal recommender by itself but it is a good
| component.
|
| A probability score for "will he like it?" works as a
| ranking score in my experience with some caveats which
| aren't so much about the score as a score but that
| recommendation is really a sequential problem. That is,
| if I get different versions of the same news article that
| all score 0.9, it might be OK to show me one or two
| articles from that list. I believe people's satisfaction
| with an article is greatly influenced by being spammed
| with too much of the same thing and that is not so
| influenced by ranking scores.
|
| I'll go so far as to say full text search should also be
| treated as a classification problem, in particularly you
| need a probability score if you want to make a service
| like "Google Alerts" where you tell people about new
| marching documents. Also if you are trying to combine
| several radically different searchers (like IBM Watson
| did back in the day) the probability score is essential.
| codetrotter wrote:
| I mean. Tinder is pretty awful in general. But the UI does
| have some merit. It's exactly the idea of _not_ filling out
| pages and pages of details about yourself that is great. And
| likewise, being able _in principle_ to randomly find
| potential partners that you would not had you gone the route
| of manually tweaking a bunch of search parameters that your
| potential partner has to fit.
|
| Swipe UI is not the problem. Tinder is separately awful
| independently of its UI.
| gizajob wrote:
| The UI has some merit for attractive people.
| solumos wrote:
| wait, why isn't there a dating app that has this?
| derefr wrote:
| Because then people would drill down and either find their
| perfect partner quickly, or figure out there's nobody
| compatible with them on the app quickly; and either way,
| delete the app.
|
| Dating app monetization creates a principal-agent problem:
| both subscriptions (for paid apps) and advertising/data-
| brokering (for free apps) are revenue streams that depend on
| people engaging with the app as much as possible -- which
| people who actually manage to find solid romantic
| relationships won't do.
|
| The only good dating app monetization model, would be a one-
| time-fee model. This would induce the correct incentives: as
| long as people are on the app, they continue to be a cost
| burden on the service with no further revenue -- so, like
| people hogging a table at a restaurant, the service would be
| motivated to satisfy them and get them out the door!
|
| But AFAIK, nobody has ever done this yet. (I think it's just
| because such a site would make so much less money than the
| traditional "milk your user base eternally" type of dating
| site. And people who build dating sites are usually in it for
| the money.)
| zero-sharp wrote:
| We need an open dating platform. "OpenHinge"?
| gizajob wrote:
| When it first started, OKCupid was about the perfect
| dating platform until Match.com bought it and totally
| killed the functionality with monetisation.
| eddythompson80 wrote:
| I don't know if the timeline of events supports that
| entirely. Match.com bought OkCupid in 2011. OkCupid
| didn't start becoming Tinder-like until Match merged with
| Tinder in 2017.
|
| There was also very little changes made to OkCupid core
| functionality between 2011 and 2016. Most monetized
| features predated the match.com acquisition, though I
| think the price increased at some point.
| excalibur wrote:
| In the world of dating, "open" doesn't mean what you
| think it means.
| zero-sharp wrote:
| "AjarHinge"?
| RunningDroid wrote:
| Sounds like Alovoa: https://alovoa.com/ /
| https://github.com/Alovoa/Alovoa/
| eddythompson80 wrote:
| Because they all used to be that (see old OkCupid, match.com,
| Plenty of Fish, etc), but swiping apps stole the majority of
| their user base when they came around and every app had to
| become another swiping app to attract users. 9 times out of
| 10, the person being approached is gonna look at the
| approaching person's pictures and "basic stats" (age, height,
| kids, religion, job, education, pets, smoking) and decide
| yes/no. So what's the point of all the other stuff?
| RunSet wrote:
| LokiList.com[0] is a free, anonymous online personals site
| intended as a replacement for Craigslist's Casual Encounters.
| It also allows searching by A/S/L[1].
|
| [0] https://www.lokilist.com/about.php
|
| [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age/sex/location
| saila wrote:
| Considering how important style is in most genres, I think the
| swipe interface could be a good way to quickly find better
| potential matches, assuming there's a pre-filter based on your
| selected genres.
|
| If I was looking to start a band today, I'd definitely give
| this kind of thing a try.
| chrisin2d wrote:
| Furthermore, this photo-forward interface design pattern
| presents candidates' physical attractiveness as the most
| salient feature. While this is desirable in a dating app, this
| is probably not very relevant for assessing people for their
| potential as musical collaborators.
|
| From the top of my head, I'm going to guess people want (1)
| personable and agreeable bandmates with (2) compatible music
| styles, (3) musical talent and skill, and (4) can play
| instruments or roles that a band is missing.
|
| So the interface should support users in presenting and finding
| these traits. If I were to design it, I'd have:
|
| - Auto-playing music sample gallery. This is the most important
| thing to present. The current design asks the user to dig into
| Youtube and Soundcloud links -- which is very high-friction and
| would have the user jumping between this app and other apps
| every few seconds.
|
| - One-minute self-introduction video. This helps the user grok
| the general 'vibe' of someone.
|
| - Allow users to connect their Spotify or other music accounts.
| Then show users their shared music interests. This can provide
| another clue about having compatible musical personalities.
| arcticfox wrote:
| I like your ideas, and I feel like tiktok/reels would be the
| better base for this type of app than tinder
| pg5 wrote:
| I agree with pretty much all this. I avoided in-app videos
| because of the complexity and cost of building a
| transcoding/streaming system. But I suppose audio-only
| wouldn't be too bad.
| pg5 wrote:
| Good point, I do intend to add genre and instrument filtering.
| I figured I had some time to do that since there are barely any
| users. Not much point of having filtering if there are 5 people
| in your area.
| PUSH_AX wrote:
| Ease of recording has made remote bands and collaborations very
| common, you can trade stems with people anywhere and make music.
|
| This would be a million times more useful without the
| geographical restriction, although I concede if the true intent
| is to make in person bands then sure, it's useful. Just consider
| the wider market.
| pg5 wrote:
| A lot of people have mentioned this, so I'll add the toggle to
| disable "local artists only" to the top of my TODO. Though I
| suppose genre filtering would need to be built first, or it
| would be obnoxious.
| amelius wrote:
| Using this terminology you might as well call Uber: "Tinder" but
| for finding a cab driver.
| eweise wrote:
| Looks good. Wish it was a website though.
| winternett wrote:
| Does the app feature music by musicians? As a musician that's
| what I'd expect to see myself, because seeing a bunch of people
| only talking about what they do is useless in terms of conveying
| style and skill. It also enables scammers and fraud if people
| aren't required to at least upload a video of themselves in
| action.
|
| Back in the old days, we had a local paper that allowed musicians
| to connect from a classified section, and boy was it scary
| meeting some of the strangers that posted in there to jam.
| wheels wrote:
| There's a simple website for where I live (Berlin) which is
| basically musical want ads. Biggest problem is that while it
| allows it, most musicians don't include an audio clip. People
| self-describing their musical ability is almost entirely
| useless.
| jdiez17 wrote:
| What's the website called?
| pg5 wrote:
| Since this is the first iteration, I went the easiest route
| where people link their SoundCloud/Spotify/or Youtube channel.
|
| I considered having MP3 uploads or even video uploads, but
| didn't seem worth it building a transcoding/streaming system,
| when someone could still upload things that is not them
| playing.
|
| Another idea is to "verify" linked Spotify accounts by having
| the artist place a short random code in their Spotify bio, to
| prove they are actually the artist.
| wheels wrote:
| You're missing the bulk of the already small market if you're
| assuming people signing up for your app will universally have
| Spotify tracks up or their own YouTube channel. Soundcloud is
| more likely, but still not a given, as it's geared towards
| mostly finished tracks. Hint: the most sought after band
| members are bassists and drummers, and they don't tend to do
| solo tracks.
|
| You want people to be able to have a low quality video of
| them noodling or playing along to something for 30 seconds.
| hyperadvanced wrote:
| I think, fwiw, I would rather work with someone who has the
| drive and motivation to finish a track of their own than
| merely recruit a noodler. I think that from a management
| perspective, I would also abhor opening up any sort of
| video/audio sharing because then you're a target for the
| majors and you get DMCA'd into the ground when kids start
| uploading their remixes of Taylor Swift songs or whatever.
| hyperadvanced wrote:
| It's awesome that you did the simplest thing. Whenever I've
| done these kinds of attempts to collab with strangers online
| kinds of things, I've always found that people will express a
| desire to be in a band but are awful at creating music. Just
| requesting that someone posts a sample through another
| channel is a great idea. Do you think this could become toxic
| though? Like people stealing tracks and trying to release
| them? My guess is no but you never know.
|
| Anyway - great call on the song requirement, for a lot of us,
| it's important to know that the people we work with can
| operate a daw and solve their own problems and care about
| creating a finished product. Unless they're incredibly
| talented instrumentalists (usually not the case, they find
| bands) at a certain point it becomes either a jam sesh (not
| interested) or you become a producer for someone who isn't
| very good.
| novaomnidev wrote:
| What does swiping left mean? I may not want to collab with
| someone for a particular project but that doesn't mean I never
| want to see their profile again. Also swiping left feels like
| rejecting them. What if I'm just browsing the artists? I don't
| want to be rejecting while I'm browsing options.
|
| Also why am I limited to my area? I want to be able to
| collaborate digitally. I don't need to be in close proximity to
| do that. I ran out of people in my area after 2 left swipes.
|
| I would like to just click on the genre of artist I want, hear a
| sample of their work and then be able to message and favorite the
| ones I like.
| pg5 wrote:
| Thanks for the feedback! Having a skip, but not reject sounds
| useful.
|
| I have in the roadmap a "don't limit to my area" option!
|
| Also plan to have some sort of inline playable sample on the
| profile, but haven't figured out the best way to do that -
| video vs audio vs embedding SoundCloud or YouTube.
| financetechbro wrote:
| A neat idea would be to have "projects." Each account/profile
| has a default/personal "project," meaning a contained
| instance of matching. But they're also able to create
| additional "projects." So if someone wants to look for a
| match for a specific project or a new band they can create a
| new project and swipe across all accounts. Would be cool to
| set up filters when creating a project, so that the options
| to swipe are more relevant to the current "project" at hand.
| Making it easier to find a match
| lovegrenoble wrote:
| https://www.reddit.com/r/BandMatch/
|
| nothing
| pg5 wrote:
| I'm not exactly sure what you were expecting - the app has been
| live for a day
| ElevenLathe wrote:
| Congratulations on yet another novel attempt to apply the swipe-
| based matching algorithm that has so effectively revolutionized
| hookups to the world of music creation. It's heartwarming to see
| how technology keeps pushing the boundaries of human interaction,
| from love and sex to now forming musical collaborations. I can
| just envision the future where we'll have swipe-based tools for
| finding roommates, jobs, and even toilet paper preferences. But
| seriously, best of luck to all the aspiring musicians out there,
| may BandMatch bring you one step closer to your musical dreams.
| pg5 wrote:
| RoomMateMatch, JobMatch, and ToiletPaperMatch are all in the
| works, I just have to copy paste the repo and find-replace the
| brand names.
| zero-sharp wrote:
| Plot twist: ToiletPaperMatch doesn't use a swiping UI.
| RajT88 wrote:
| Great. A whole new trend of exaggeration and outright lying on
| social apps.
|
| ISO - band. Lead guitar player, regularly practices Yngwie
| Malmsteen songs.
| aantix wrote:
| What's the equivilent of marketing/engineering matching, for
| founding a company?
| pg5 wrote:
| Have you tried YC's Co-founder matching tool?
| hyperadvanced wrote:
| Just a comment - love the idea, going to use this, I think it's a
| good idea not to lead with "Tinder for X". At this point Tinder
| occupies a pretty bad lexical territory of being one of the
| classic examples of anti-user practices and enshittification.
| pg5 wrote:
| Ah, I wasn't aware of the connotation. Luckily, this post is
| the only place where I've described it in that way.
| arnorhs wrote:
| Would be interested in testing, however not available in my
| country.. is there a particular reason? Seems like some artists
| like to collaborate across borders.. it's not like a dating app
| where your location is crucial, and you want certain level of
| usage saturation in a particular region before expanding.. I
| guess what I'm saying is: why not open for all regions?
| pg5 wrote:
| I didn't want to release the app without proper translations
| for the target countries. FYI - I haven't yet implemented the
| feature to toggle off "local-only" artists.
| ericyd wrote:
| Love the idea, but I've tried similar apps in the past and they
| all suffer from lack of critical mass, and/or lots of accounts
| with little activity. I'd love it if this one were different, but
| Craigslist has been the most consistent way I've found to connect
| with musicians.
|
| Other services I've tried are Hendrix (gohendrix.com) and Vampr
| paul7986 wrote:
| I joined a similar app .. it has a lot reviews in the app store
| (not to say those are real lol) and i was excited to join and
| meet fellow local musicians.
|
| If you thought online dating was hard and judgemental ... finding
| musicians to play music is even more judgemental .. if you are a
| good to great singer for instance these apps will keep you busy.
| Personally i just wanted to connect and play music without the
| judgement (tho do want you to be able to actually play an
| instrument fairly well .. strum chords on guitar and lets sing
| along as we strum together).
|
| I posted songs i wrote where professional singers were singing
| them and those got people reaching out. Their messages were like
| good song and did you sing that (i noted i did not) but they
| became disinterested when they truly realized i was not the
| singer.
| nineteen999 wrote:
| Great, I was looking for a baritone sax player for a demo just
| yesterday. Look forward to seeing it available in my part of the
| world.
| benenglish wrote:
| Can't believe you don't have the UK :/
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