Why is collaborating on music projects still so complicated?

I've been producing music for years, mostly with Ableton, and there's one part of the workflow that still feels unnecessarily messy: collaborating with other producers.

You start working on a track together and, before you know it, you're dealing with different project versions, Drive folders, WeTransfer links, missing samples and messages like:

“Which version are you working on?”

or

“What did you actually change?”

Remote collaboration makes it even worse.

A few friends and I kept running into this problem, so we started building something around it. We call it GITAR.

The idea is simple: make working together on music projects feel as straightforward as it should be — keeping projects, versions and collaborators in one place, without constantly passing folders back and forth.

We're currently building GITAR and would love to hear how other producers approach collaboration while we keep developing it.
If you're curious about GITAR or want to know more about what we're building, feel free to ask me anything or just reach out.

If you produce music or work with musicians: how do you collaborate today?

Drive? Dropbox? WeTransfer? Something else?

And most importantly:

What's the most frustrating part of collaborating on a music project for you?