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AuraMax Publishing
Music licensing where artists keep their rights
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Music licensing where artists keep their rights
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Discover and license human-made music for film, TV, ads, and games. AuraVibe transforms creative briefs into five-dimensional music discovery, while AuraMax brings rights clearance, transparent pricing, agreements, and payments into one marketplace.
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Hey Product Hunt! 👋
I'm Mark Anthony, solo founder of AuraMax Publishing. Today I'm launching a music licensing marketplace I've wanted to exist for years.
The mission: Independent artists keep their rights. Filmmakers, TV teams, advertisers, and game developers discover and license music without the usual gatekeeping.
🎛️ AuraVibe — We turned the creative brief into an instrument.
You might not know which song your scene needs, but you know how it should feel: dark yet hopeful, raw yet cinematic.
Instead of endless playlists, tune music across five dimensions: Brightness, Emotion, Excitement, Space, and Pace. That's 480,000 possible configurations. Artists position their own tracks in this sonic space, so discovery is based on creative fit, not popularity.
Lock a Vibe, share its link, and collaborators can explore the same coordinates and selected track. The vinyl-inspired player runs in-browser with WebGL and audio-state interactions engineered around 200ms. No account needed to listen.
🔐 Find the song. The rights are ready.
We built licensing into discovery:
Every declared rights holder signs before licensing; ownership splits must total 100%.
No exclusivity, copyright buyouts, or retitling.
Transparent rates: 85% of standard license revenue goes to rights holders, before processing fees.
Human-created music: creator declarations and Modulate API screening.
Stripe Identity verification before creator payouts.
Glass Ledger: transparent, append-only records of licenses, transactions, and earnings.
From finding a track to licensing the master and composition, signing agreements, and paying creators, it's one connected workflow.
Free for artists and producers. We earn when they get licensed.
🤝 A referral program that shares the upside.
Refer a creator and earn 5% of the gross license fee on their first two completed sync deals. It comes from AuraMax's share, never the licensed artist's: 85% rights holders / 10% AuraMax / 5% referrer on those deals.
🚀 The other story: one founder, 72 days, AI agents.
After five years at VMware/Broadcom, I left enterprise tech and revisited a music publishing idea I couldn't afford to build the traditional way.
The idea wasn't new. What changed was what one person could build.
With Claude Code and specialized AI-agent workflows — no human engineering team and no application code written manually by me — here's the build table after 72 days:
326.3B tokens processed (96.7% cache-served)
1,055,991 model calls
13,509 agent deployments and 3,188 multi-agent boards
11,047 commits to main
1,159,000 lines of code, including 548,000 lines of tests
4,567 human prompts.
1 MacBook Pro.
On October 31 at 5:43 PM ET, the final commercial infrastructure milestone went live: Release BC, “the money release.” Live payments, payouts, and licensing connected end to end. Lighthouse score: 95.
My goal wasn't a million lines of code. It was a viable business. Commercial validation, further professional review, and plenty of learning still lie ahead — but AI let me build before raising a seed round or hiring engineers.
Built with AI. Built for human music.
💚 Now we're putting real money behind it.
Starting Friday, November 6, AuraMax will select a track for a $1,000 advertising sync license each week and feature it in the following week's campaign. Not a random giveaway: a paid music license selected for creative fit. We're becoming a customer of our own marketplace.
💬 I'd love your feedback.
How does AuraVibe feel? Is artist onboarding intuitive? What would make licensing easier for filmmakers, advertisers, and game developers? Builders: happy to discuss the agent orchestration behind it.
The game hasn't changed. AI unlocks Turbo Mode. 🏎️💨
Welcome to our Publishing House. 💚
https://auramaxpublishing.com/