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Total Merlin@jonasmerlins · CS Student from Germany.
Please keep the weekly schedule. It's really refreshing to find a website that doesn't want your eyeballs every day, but simply wants to do one thing and do it well. It might be true that some people will forget about it this way, but there's a growing number of people appreciating this kind of thing. So it's probably more of a shift in traget users rather t… See more
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Adrien Moret@adrienmoret · Founder, The Best Song
Hi @jonasmerlins ! Thank you for taking the time to write this and for your vision. The sign-up is not about free marketing for our app because we have more audience with The Best Song than The Week Song. It's the opposite, we want to give the audience we have with The Best Song to one artist each week. But we wanted to try something so minimal you can't be … See more
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Total Merlin@jonasmerlins · CS Student from Germany.
@adrienmoret Okay, I can see where you’re coming from and really like the idea of a distraction free experience I have to commit to, with the potential for more valuable information. My problem is mainly that the user is not only getting information about the artist, but onto your mailing list as well. A very powerful move would be a well placed, clear guar… See more
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Adrien Moret@adrienmoret · Founder, The Best Song
@jonasmerlins You're right. The best thing would be to send users infos about the song, saying that we'll update them every week when a new song is coming, but that they can unsuscribe if they don't want to stay in our mailing list.
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Adam Marx@adammarx13 · CEO, Glipple, Inc.
@jonasmerlins I agree here. The forced signup is a huge barrier to entry that both deters me as a user and would deter me as an artist. Many artists I speak to are averse to this sort of funneling because it provides an unnecessary obstacle for people to find their music. The weekly feature is nice, but with so many amazing songs and artists to choose from, … See more
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Adrien Moret@adrienmoret · Founder, The Best Song
@adammarx13 @jonasmerlins Hi Adam, thanks for your point of view. I have to say that finding amazing unknown songs that can't be Shazamable or found on Spotify etc. is really not that easy, and it's been years since I work in the music discovery field! It's the absolute hunt.
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Adrien Moret@adrienmoret · Founder, The Best Song
@adammarx13 @jonasmerlins Of course I get your point about the forced signup, we need to find something that doesn't seem forced but yet nurture our vision of minimalism and no-text-influence. But we find the fact of asking interesting for creating a new metric more meaningful and powerful for artists than a simple listen or like. Maybe email is not the bes… See more
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Adrien Moret@adrienmoret · Founder, The Best Song
@adammarx13 @jonasmerlins Concerning the artist, we're giving him a place to stand out with a wide exposure during days instead of being drowned in a playlist with other bands. The difference is that here, everything is done to put more value around the music. We'll handpick artists carefully and yes we can't take everyone but as for every other media. And … See more
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Gabe Perez@gabe__perez · Strategic Storyteller
@adrienmoret @adammarx13 @jonasmerlins – just brainstorming here but maybe have the artist info available on Snapchat & feature that artist on your story. This way people who want more can seek it out themselves. You can even provide the QR snap code on the site. This could have the potential to become something cool and a way to get the "unknown" artist… See more
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Philip Joubert@philipjoubert · Co-founder @ OfferZen
@adrienmoret @adammarx13 @jonasmerlins I think you're doing a disservice to the artist with your email signup. I love the track that's currently on there but would never subscribe to the mailing list just to find out the artists name. Would you mind telling me who the artist is so I can listen to more of their music? FYI I have downloaded your app as well … See more
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Adrien Moret@adrienmoret · Founder, The Best Song
@gabe__perez @adammarx13 @jonasmerlins Actually that's a nice idea Gabe, thanks!
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Adrien Moret@adrienmoret · Founder, The Best Song
@philipjoubert Asking infos is not about subscribing, it's about about creating a measurement unit which is more meaningful than a simple like. We won't keep emails and you can unsubscribe whenever you want. But you're right, we'll modify a few things so that you can choose if you just want infos for this song or if you wan to get reminded for new songs in t… See more
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Gabe Perez@gabe__perez · Strategic Storyteller
@adrienmoret @adammarx13 @jonasmerlins Of course! Happy to contribute and continue the conversation over email or some coffee ☕ if you're in the Bay area!
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