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At Boomy (https://boomy.com), we're developing market-leading AI-powered music generation systems, which people use to create, release, and monetize instant songs regardless of access to musical knowledge or talent. Think smartphone camera, but one-click songs instead of photos. Launched in February 2019 out of Boost Accelerator and backed by both VC and music industry, our users have already created 1.5M+ original songs and released tens of thousands of them to streaming services... and we've only just started building.

Open roles:

- Frontend Developer: if you're a JS (specifically VueJS) whiz, and want to hack on an unprecedented set of product challenges, this is the role for you!

- A&R Associate: if the idea of listening to 10,000 songs to find 10 great ones is not only compelling but fascinating to you, you're just the kind of weirdo we want to meet.

- Customer Success Manager: we didn't want to call it "answering tons of customers, managing the social media no one has time for, oh and also managing email and probably 10 other things we aren't thinking about right now" so we called it "Customer Success Manager"

Apply at your own risk: https://www.linkedin.com/company/boomy-corporation

My impression from having applied, and from knowing founders at various stages (some of whom went through YC, others who were rejected at various stages, one rejected at interview 5+ times in a row!), is that there is such a high volume of applications now that the person you get matched with to review yours is a total shot in the dark. If it isn't someone who "gets" your industry, you'll kind of just be thrown to the back of their pile. There is a lot of serendipity to who advances. I have heard some insiders complain that their recommendations aren't really taken seriously.

YC was the only accelerator who rejected us. We did a different one (at a true "idea stage") and it went great. Make sure to apply to others like Techstars, Capital Factory, Masschallenge, Betaworks, Boost VC, the list goes on. If it's a numbers game now, then whether you get picked for any particular accelerator is probably more a function of the total number of applications to that accelerator than anything else.

If you're super early stage, I'd recommend trying to find out if there are any accelerators sponsored by your local government, they tend to have way less applications since they're only pulling from a local pool.

There is probably a value-add to YC besides just money, but there are literally hundreds of accelerators that have copied the model at this point. If you really have something, the venture community that YC taps will notice regardless. It's always better just to take the cash and build IMO.

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Although, the causes of sleep paralysis still aren't well understood, so maybe it's a VR bug after all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Re your harvesting comment, we don’t even keep a temporary copy of the CSV you upload, for privacy reasons - it’s all handled on the frontend. Clearly, customer trust is paramount for a business like ours :)

If you have some database of notable domains, aliases used by investors and celebrities when testing, etc - highlight that competitive advantage.

That's exactly what we have - if that isn't coming through via the landing page, we should probably focus more on it.

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Seriously - there are literally hundreds of affiliate management services out there, I've looked at dozens of them, and none of them quite fit the following requirements:

- Simple setup - Reasonably low cost - Dashboard for affiliates to track clicks & signups

Most existing systems also wrap up some sort of customer referral widgety thing, which I don't need. Or, the websites are broken / look like they're from 2001.

ReferralCandy is probably the closest thing, but again, it's way more set up for "customer referrals" vs professional or semi-pro affiliates. The integration process is also super heavy.

We literally built our own affiliate management since everything that fit our requirements was so expensive. This seems like an obvious side-project for someone to knock out.

+1 for instant search

It works, for all sorts of obvious reasons.

http://corporate.reverbnation.com/careers/

ReverbNation is in the business of helping the aspiring Artist at any stage of their career, but we care just as much about helping our team members advance themselves, too. Looking to grow in a creative, collaborative space that will push you to do your best? You’ve come to the right place.

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Some context: http://www.robertsapolskyrocks.com/behavioral-genetics.html

Unfortunately for SC, IAC tends to price acquisitions based on historical revenues...

With the exception of wealthy purists (read: just Radiohead), that vinyl you're listening to is actually the digital recording pressed onto vinyl, not an analog recording pressed to vinyl.

The industry is much less focused on what it can gain through litigation, and much more focused on what it loses by not aggressively protecting their copyrights.

I recall a conversation with a friend who managed PR for the RIAA when they went around suing teenagers for using P2P (yeah, imagine that PR job). They knew the mess it would cause, but they had to do it, because it sent a stronger message if they did nothing. IANAL, but there's something about if you knowingly let someone use your copyright without demanding they license it from you, you give up or lose the copyright at some point? (Edit: apparently this only applies to trademarks, not copyrights)

Labels have invested a heap of cash buying these rights, we shouldn't all be shocked when they act lawfully to protect them.

NSA is not allowed to intercept communications of American citizens. I should have been more explicit about that. I am simply trying to add context to what I believe is an erroneous perception that the NSA is a building full of gunslinging unchecked hackers that gleefully eschew US law so that they can... do what exactly?

> You've got a pretty strong opinion of the agency ... I'm guessing that you work for the PsyOps division. Or perhaps you're just a youngin' who hasn't been around the block quite enough times.

LOL. What does it say that you'd assume anyone who has a non-negative opinion of NSA is either working for them, or young and misinformed? Sorry to disappoint, but I am neither. I simply respect the truth, and misinformation regarding the US intelligence community is a cancerous detriment to the long-term personal safety of Americans. This is why I asked for references for your claims. But if you take nothing else away from our exchange other than the understanding that NSA is military, I'm happy.

> I'm certainly not advocating anything beyond having exactly this kind of discussion.

Good. I'm glad. See how it only takes a simple challenging of one's opinions to go from "I hope the NSA gets shut down" to "let's have a discussion?"

There have been many instances reported publicly about US tech falling into enemy hands. I've included a few from recent memory. This is something that happens, and I share your concern. It is a bad thing that happens, among many bad things that happen in war.

But to optimize away from it, would be to sacrifice the technological edge that keeps Americans safe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–U.S._RQ-170_incident https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/01/isis-captured-... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/aug/15/us-helicopter-...

operate without enough oversight

This is your opinion. FISA Court exists for a reason, and is there to protect the rights of Americans.

frequently flaunt the law (and ignore the constitution)

No idea how you're getting to this assumption, unless you're taking clickbait at face value. There have been contested judgements regarding the legal justification for metadata collection. That hardly constitutes "ignoring the constitution." I'm also curious as to your claim of frequency.

eroding the rights of the people they're supposedly serving

NSA cannot collect information about American citizens, only FBI can. I believe NSA can only be involved with a specific warrant issued in response to an imminent or direct threat, but even then, I think it has to be FBI.

The military is completely different

This is the point I'm trying to make to you: NSA is the military. One more time. NSA is the military. Excuse the gross oversimplification, but NSA provides intelligence to other branches of the military so that they can function in the most informed way possible.

If you "can't possibly fault the soldiers" who are "on the ground" and "generally following orders," I'm going to assume that you are someone that supports keeping US soldiers as safe as possible. Yet, you seem to delight in the notion that the NSA would be shut down for a week, which would directly endanger those lives. How would you rectify this?

Would it also be "wonderful" if the US Army "shut down for a week or two?" How about the Coast Guard?

As an American, NSA protects you, that is NSA's job. NSA's job is not to impress you or make you think they are good guys.

At the same time - never forget that a lot of the "usual recommendations" are wrong :)