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Show HN: Explore, Discuss and Buy Independent Music like never before

musicfellas.com

13 pointsgshahlot16 comments

Hello HN, we are Musicfellas, an independent music discovery platform. In one line, we are spotify + iTunes for independent music. You can not only discover new music everyday but also support the artists you like by buying their music. Very soon, we have an iPhone app and some premium features coming out. Looking forward to your feedback.

PS: Music startups are hard. We are looking for mentors/advisors/investors/music-enthusiasts who can guide us through. Please feel free to email us. Cheers!

looks great! Nice simple pitch, you'll do well.

Thank you!

Super sleek web site and great music!

Thanks! :)

As someone who tried to launch a music service as well, I know how hard they are. Good luck, this looks really nice! Indie music discovery is still an area ripe for improvement IMO :)

Thanks! :) Glad you enjoyed it.

Glad to see more entrants not backed/beholden to major labels, congrats. Very clean and well designed site, pleasant to use.

Bandcamp currently has most of the indie diy music distribution market, do you consider them your competitor? What would you consider your advantages over them - to artists? Bandcamp take a much smaller cut (15% on digital, 10% on merch [edit: forgot PayPal fees 4-6%]), offer free downloads, and are agnostic in the sense they are just a platform: customisable pages etc.

Good luck too!

Glad you like it. Bandcamp is certainly a competitor at this point however we'll have to see how we evolve, more as a buying platform or discovery platform.

As to the advantages over Bandcamp, they are just a store, we help provide exposure as well, allowing artists to be discovered via various channels.

Can you elaborate on these various channels? It's easy to say you provide exposure, but once you have 500k bands, how do you offer any individual band valuable exposure?

Very nice and clean website. I will make sure to spread the word. What about an API? will it possible to send cross domain request and parse results in JSON?

Thanks! Cross domain json calls would certainly work but our APIs are not public ready yet and not all would work as expected.

Can an artist login be used the same as a regular one, for liking songs and such?

Reason I ask is I'm in pending mode as an artist and I went to <3 a song but couldn't without registering over again. I'd rather wait and use a single account.

Hey! Sorry but you can't use the same account as an artist as well as a user, yet. We'll be introducing that pretty soon.

Pretty neat, this. Love the design. Will be sure to spread the word.

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