Hello ProductHunt! We've been building Lisn for a couple months now, and just launched on the App Store last week.
Music recommendation on mobile is broken — sending a URL through iMessage/Messenger/Whatsapp means jumping between apps, and there's often no feedback on whether your friend liked the song or not.
We've found that listening to the song together and chatting about it live is a great way to discover new music, and Lisn sessions are a super addictive experience! It's like you're listening to music in the same room, and playing DJ for each other.
We're excited for you to try it out, and as always, would love to hear any feedback you might have!
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@abnux Great concept. Congrats on launch. Listening to music is a passive experience for most people. How do you intend to make it more active? Would be some hooks that help create a habit? Just curious.
Love this idea! A former coworker and I used to like listening to the same music when we worked together, and coordinating it was a pain. We've talked about building something like this.
I'm wondering if you're going to expand it to listening to music with strangers. Sometimes it's hard to discover new music, especially if your friends have the same taste as you. I can imagine evolving this into a great discovery platform by connecting strangers. What if you use location to let people near each other [perhaps anonymously] listen to the same music. I'm on the bus to work, and I can hear the music someone else on the bus is listening to. I'm at work, and I can listen to a random coworker's music. It might lead to new friendships too!
@vanessa_ronan Ya we're considering that. Glad you like the idea! One of the four co-founders gets added as a random friend whenever someone joins, so we've been having fun Lisning with random strangers. Hopefully we can help other people do the same based on overlapping music tastes
@vibhasjain That's sweet! It would be cool if anyone could randomly join any other group too.
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I was addicted to TurnTable-fm... so I have a built in appreciation for the power of a shared listening experience (that was the hook for me...not the animations.)
Really excited to try this and super happy to see Spotify in the mix as that is my primary streaming service.
.... but I'm Android 😰😱
@jimcanto Hey Jim, thanks for the kind words! We're definitely going to be releasing for android soon and it's on the top of our to-do queue. Hopefully we'll be up on product hunt again then haha
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@sosale151 Thank you for the reply, Bhargav. Do you happen to have an ETA on that Android app?
I feel this is nifty but is a case of tech people in a tech world echo chamber solving the wrong core problem. For instance, an alternative slogan to "listen to music with friends, in real-time" can be "for when you want to listen to music with friends, in real-time, but too alone for facetime"
Outside the tech world, people listen to music with friends in realtime by geographically being together, and if they don't have any friends to do that with, they realise the problem to be solved is a lack of geographically close friends that are good enough quality that actually want to hang out with them in-person, so they find new geographically close good quality friends that enjoy hanging out with them in-person, rather than find an app to supplement their lack of in-person good quality friendships…
@balupton Thanks for the comment Ben! The problem we're trying to solve right now isn't so much to make new friends and meet up IRL, but to communicate in a new way with friends you might not have the opportunity to meet as often.
We've got couples in long distance relationships using Lisn to communicate, friends from uni that now live in different cities, or even co-workers and friends who might meet daily but use this app to chat and build a playlist of music recommendations over time.
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@abnux cool great, perhaps these audiences and use cases should be exemplified to drill home the purpose and need, as the current slogan obscures that point 👍 maybe "build stronger connections with friends/coworkers/partners abroad by listening to music together online in realtime"
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@balupton This doesn't match my experience at all. Non-tech people make long-distance friendships all the time, and there are millions of teenagers in small towns who don't know people locally that share their love of [insert band name here] so they spend hours a day on tumblr or messaging apps talking with other fans. (My daughter is like this.) Adults, even if they aren't obsessive fans, often have friends who've moved away but they want to stay close to via email or Facebook or Skype, and listening to music is another way to do that. (I'm like this!)
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Dope idea, will download and check it out.
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Been Lisn'ing with @vibhasjain for the past hour and he's shown me some cool tips and new tunes! I can't wait to use this with my girlfriend while we're both at work. Great job guys!
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