So, I have this idea I wanna create a prototype for that I think would do just this. It could either work with the music industry and help make their process cheaper, or it could even replace it if it ever became popular enough to be used by main stream artists. This idea is the reason I started teaching myself some web dev stuff about a year ago. About 6 months ago I got a job at a somewhat small but completely awesome start up. My thought is that within about a year I'll understand the full stack enough to make a prototype for me and my friends, but for this idea (which has been tried before, but failed) to work I think it has to be slow growing.
If some of you guys come up with some baller distribution software in the meantime, that would be awesome, but if you want to kill the music industry you've gotta go way deeper than music distribution. This article is interesting, but I think it's only thinking about the problem in a superficial way, folding already existing technologies into the strategy. This is the internet guys. It's brand new. There are so many great possibilities that haven't been realized yet that it's almost insane to do something that someone else has done before. Sound Cloud allows people to share their own music, that's a good start and as far as I can tell they're doing well with it. I kinda feel like people here are arguing for a slightly different version of that. In my mind, that's wasting time. I have my idea, but I'll bet some of you can develop a different or maybe even similar but better one if you push yourselves so I don't wanna taint the idea pool with my specific plan.
If your idea is to take an existing structure and make it more social or something, that's an ok idea but it's not very innovative. You should think about what is not being done with music and artists at all right now. Then go with that. New is good, and exciting and on the internet it's easy to convince people to spend a few minutes checking it out. Then it's just gotta be cool enough to convince them to stay and signup.
Another good strategy is to take something that exists right now in the real world, that people are familiar with, and make an online version. There are so many possibilities to do this right now that it seems silly to me that companies like google try to create their own social network. Although I get the appeal of owning all of that freely given demographic information.
Anyway, just some ramblings. I'm obviously new to this stuff so maybe I'm retarded. But I thought I'd try to stimulate some fresh ideas if I could.
If some of you guys come up with some baller distribution software in the meantime, that would be awesome, but if you want to kill the music industry you've gotta go way deeper than music distribution. This article is interesting, but I think it's only thinking about the problem in a superficial way, folding already existing technologies into the strategy. This is the internet guys. It's brand new. There are so many great possibilities that haven't been realized yet that it's almost insane to do something that someone else has done before. Sound Cloud allows people to share their own music, that's a good start and as far as I can tell they're doing well with it. I kinda feel like people here are arguing for a slightly different version of that. In my mind, that's wasting time. I have my idea, but I'll bet some of you can develop a different or maybe even similar but better one if you push yourselves so I don't wanna taint the idea pool with my specific plan.
If your idea is to take an existing structure and make it more social or something, that's an ok idea but it's not very innovative. You should think about what is not being done with music and artists at all right now. Then go with that. New is good, and exciting and on the internet it's easy to convince people to spend a few minutes checking it out. Then it's just gotta be cool enough to convince them to stay and signup.
Another good strategy is to take something that exists right now in the real world, that people are familiar with, and make an online version. There are so many possibilities to do this right now that it seems silly to me that companies like google try to create their own social network. Although I get the appeal of owning all of that freely given demographic information.
Anyway, just some ramblings. I'm obviously new to this stuff so maybe I'm retarded. But I thought I'd try to stimulate some fresh ideas if I could.