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I find the marketing message a bit hard to swallow. The perfect answer for “what kind of music do you listen to” in person shouldn’t be something where we stop the flow of conversation and pull out our phones. It’s unclear to me why I’d want to use this. It would be helpful to see some example screenshots on the home page for be to better understand the value.

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I appreciate the feedback! I definitely think adding some examples to the homepage is a good feature.

This idea was something we, a group of college students, felt was missing from our social interactions. I agree, it's a bit clunky to set this up mid conversation.

I, personally, find that this works really well with existing friends or when forming new friends online through things like Instagram or Tinder.

To your point, we're always looking to expand our use cases and reduce the first time friction.

Perhaps a better way to go is to have something that does analysis of your own music library standalone as an entry point. That doesn’t require another person, which means most people on HN can try it on their own. If that’s shareable as a link, then not only can you send that as a reply on tinder (versus all this permission mutual stuff), it gives the viewer the ability to hit some big magic button that then finds the overlap with their own library, while also giving them their own stats separately.

Very good point. I think that's where something like last.fm really shines.

Starting off, we focused heavily on comparisons but have branched out since. For example, the stats page you're first taken to gives you some analytical information about your own music. Strengthening out this page with things like music evolution, recommendations, rankings, &c is foremost priority.

Currently, we have friend links that deep links into creating a friendship (e.g. mine is https://smtn.es/125.ferda-bruh). Pivoting this to share your statistics and music tastes is an interesting idea -- it definitely helps introduce the platform to new users and personalise the platform for existing users.

I'll propose it to the team, thanks!

Lastly — is there a reason for the shortened url here? Personally that link looks very much like malware to the untrained eye, especially if I have no idea what sametunes is. At least if it was sametunes.com based I could go to that host to find out.

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