The music review app. Factory.fm is like "Letterboxd for music" — rate, review and track the music you're listening to. Discover new music from real people and create a profile with your favorite albums.
Thank you so much for checking out Factory.fm! We are a team of musicians (including Grammy-winning artist RAC) who wanted to build a deeper space for music.
We are not another streaming service but a place to reflect on the albums that changed our lives and talk about new music we love. Many of our early testers have said it's given them a deeper connection to music and they're listening to more albums because of factory.fm. Hopefully it'll do the same thing for you!
What can you do?
Create a profile and set your Top 8 albums of all-time (it's a hard choice!)
Rate and review your record collection.
Make lists (e.g. the best electronic albums)
Follow your friends and see what they're listening to.
Bookmark albums you want to listen to for later.
The app is available on iOS and Android, or you can use the website directly. Let us know in the comments if you have questions or ideas!
@iralobanovskaya Hi Mira - yes there's definitely space for more niche music. When we launched in the app store last week we got a big increase in mainstream music but I promise you'll find lots of obscure, left-field music discussion from all genres if you dive deeper. We could use some more techno, though :)
@iralobanovskaya A lot of artists are using the app as a place to show what music inspires them. For example, our founder RAC often posts deeper stories about the inspiration behind his albums. We don't think there are many places you can go to see what music your favorite artists like.
@iralobanovskaya 100% with you on this and no silver bullet here I'm afraid because of how subjective our relation to music is. But we're building out the platform so these communities can start forming naturally
@pyyding I have some experience with communities — around 300k people ‘under management.’ There needs to be an initial push to establish a purpose for the future. It’s up to the people after that, but you’d benefit from engaging with existing communities and creating a welcoming space for those who need it most. I’m thinking about artists like tier-2 DJs (Massively affected by the pandemic — the EU scene and many careers which was almost-successful have crashed). Also, musicians who compose soundtracks for Netflix or A24 — very uniq — absolutely undivided.
I've been messing with it, and I love it. Would be nice to have like a discover new albums page. I notice that it shows new albums but there isn't like a dedicated section for it. Would be a good addition for people who want to find new albums.
Very cool idea to get out of the walled gardens of music distribution and marketing to find new hot music releases and undiscovered oldies! I signed up and added my releases.
As an artist myself I would like a way to share and promote my music within the platform if possible. I added my own song releases to my favorites in hopes that will get some exposure, along with some other pop punk bands I love!
I thought of building my own platform that allows artists/music listeners to build/share collaborative Spotify playlists to avoid the walled gardens of gated/paywalled playlisting and incentivize artists/listeners to grow playlists together for free for their own benefit. Instead of building it myself though, even though I'm a software developer myself, maybe you could build it or we could collaborate somehow?
This would be a HUGE help to the music marketing community and help avid listeners discover new artists, all for a much lower cost/effort.
Let me know what you think! Will be following for the latest features regardless!
@drewg2009 Hey Drew! So cool - on my way to check out some of your music right now. This is great feedback from the artist perspective and yes something we need to spend some time. Appreciate you trying it out!
@musicben Awesome thanks!!
Yeah the cost of finding playlisting is hours of detective work and networking each week only for playlisters not to respond or charge a hefty fee to be played by bots. Playlist search engines and services are expensive and hard to trust the results.
Organic growth is stunted for most musicians with saturation on social platforms like TikTok, IG, and Youtube
And its hard to make good music and post viral content with limited time each day, while balancing a 9-5 job. We want to be music makers first (which is time intensive) and not influencers.
On top of that, musicians earn little to nothing in the streaming era and selling merch and tickets to brand new listeners is challenging, even with ai powered ads and retargeting. From experience, I love ads and ad tech, but they are expensive and hard to profit for new brands.
I think there's a major opportunity for tech to empower listeners and new to market musicians (non mainstream). We need to give those musicians a shot at their dream too, through sharing each others music, growing open and free playlists together to build communities, and allowing listeners to find the best music outside of label support!!
Listeners should drive mass appeal, not large ad budgets and major corporations. Also labels put out bad artists all the time, masking true talent underneath
@shushantlakhyani Thanks Shushant! Have fun picking your top 8 albums of all time :)
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This is such a cool idea! Love the focus on deepening the connection with music rather than just streaming, DSPs are definitely lacking a deeper level of curation, and I find myself relying on text messages and Instagram DMs to share favorites - slick!
Thank you so much for checking out Factory.fm! We are a team of musicians (including Grammy-winning artist RAC) who wanted to build a deeper space for music.
We are not another streaming service but a place to reflect on the albums that changed our lives and talk about new music we love. Many of our early testers have said it's given them a deeper connection to music and they're listening to more albums because of factory.fm. Hopefully it'll do the same thing for you!
What can you do?
Create a profile and set your Top 8 albums of all-time (it's a hard choice!)
Rate and review your record collection.
Make lists (e.g. the best electronic albums)
Follow your friends and see what they're listening to.
Bookmark albums you want to listen to for later.
The app is available on iOS and Android, or you can use the website directly. Let us know in the comments if you have questions or ideas!
Factory.fm
Thank you so much for checking out Factory.fm! We are a team of musicians (including Grammy-winning artist RAC) who wanted to build a deeper space for music.
We are not another streaming service but a place to reflect on the albums that changed our lives and talk about new music we love. Many of our early testers have said it's given them a deeper connection to music and they're listening to more albums because of factory.fm. Hopefully it'll do the same thing for you!
What can you do?
Create a profile and set your Top 8 albums of all-time (it's a hard choice!)
Rate and review your record collection.
Make lists (e.g. the best electronic albums)
Follow your friends and see what they're listening to.
Bookmark albums you want to listen to for later.
The app is available on iOS and Android, or you can use the website directly. Let us know in the comments if you have questions or ideas!
Piqls
I have a lot of friends among musicians, this idea seems quit interesting to me. How exactly do artists benefit from this app?
Piqls
Also, I checked the website. It seems like it’s a platform for mainstream music. Is there a place for more niche musicians? Electronic? Techno?
Factory.fm
@iralobanovskaya Hi Mira - yes there's definitely space for more niche music. When we launched in the app store last week we got a big increase in mainstream music but I promise you'll find lots of obscure, left-field music discussion from all genres if you dive deeper. We could use some more techno, though :)
Factory.fm
@iralobanovskaya A lot of artists are using the app as a place to show what music inspires them. For example, our founder RAC often posts deeper stories about the inspiration behind his albums. We don't think there are many places you can go to see what music your favorite artists like.
Factory.fm
@iralobanovskaya 100% with you on this and no silver bullet here I'm afraid because of how subjective our relation to music is. But we're building out the platform so these communities can start forming naturally
Piqls
@pyyding I have some experience with communities — around 300k people ‘under management.’ There needs to be an initial push to establish a purpose for the future. It’s up to the people after that, but you’d benefit from engaging with existing communities and creating a welcoming space for those who need it most. I’m thinking about artists like tier-2 DJs (Massively affected by the pandemic — the EU scene and many careers which was almost-successful have crashed). Also, musicians who compose soundtracks for Netflix or A24 — very uniq — absolutely undivided.
There could be a place to collaborate and create
Great initiative, guys, wish all the best!
1Password
What a great idea and a beautiful looking app!
Factory.fm
@mattdavey Thank you Matt! All credit @carlfairclough for making it look beautiful
Factory.fm
@mattdavey @musicben plus @pyyding @shaunchurch for filling in so many blanks
One Line
As someone who updates my Instagram notes with only music daily, this seems like the perfect app for me! Congrats on the launch!
Factory.fm
@angus_mac we should chat :) we built factory for people like you and want to know where it hits and where it misses
Factory.fm
@angus_mac Hope you love it! Feel free to pester us with ideas or what you like/dislike about it
One Line
I've been messing with it, and I love it. Would be nice to have like a discover new albums page. I notice that it shows new albums but there isn't like a dedicated section for it. Would be a good addition for people who want to find new albums.
Clockwise Smart Alarm
Very cool idea to get out of the walled gardens of music distribution and marketing to find new hot music releases and undiscovered oldies! I signed up and added my releases.
As an artist myself I would like a way to share and promote my music within the platform if possible. I added my own song releases to my favorites in hopes that will get some exposure, along with some other pop punk bands I love!
I thought of building my own platform that allows artists/music listeners to build/share collaborative Spotify playlists to avoid the walled gardens of gated/paywalled playlisting and incentivize artists/listeners to grow playlists together for free for their own benefit. Instead of building it myself though, even though I'm a software developer myself, maybe you could build it or we could collaborate somehow?
This would be a HUGE help to the music marketing community and help avid listeners discover new artists, all for a much lower cost/effort.
Let me know what you think! Will be following for the latest features regardless!
Factory.fm
@drewg2009 Hey Drew! So cool - on my way to check out some of your music right now. This is great feedback from the artist perspective and yes something we need to spend some time. Appreciate you trying it out!
Clockwise Smart Alarm
Flex-Worthy Templates
This looks cool, I'll try to use it
Factory.fm
@shushantlakhyani Thanks Shushant! Have fun picking your top 8 albums of all time :)
This is such a cool idea! Love the focus on deepening the connection with music rather than just streaming, DSPs are definitely lacking a deeper level of curation, and I find myself relying on text messages and Instagram DMs to share favorites - slick!
Factory.fm
@kevinknielsen Thank you for being an early power user!