Soloist
Turn your phone into a collaborative loop pedal
6 followers
Turn your phone into a collaborative loop pedal
6 followers
Music is lonely. You're creating at 11 PM with incomplete ideas and no one to jam with. Soloist reimagines the loop pedal as a social platform: record loops, discover others' creations, layer your magic, and collaborate with musicians worldwide. Real musicians, real groove. 87% funded on Kickstarter with 10 days left to join as a founding backer.
Hey Product Hunt! 👋
I'm Riley, head of design at Soloist, and I'm here with Parker (CEO) and John (lead developer). We are three friends from Bloomington, Indiana who all have very unique backgrounds in the music space and have experienced the amazing sense of community that can come from playing music together.
How This Started (And How It Changed)
When Parker first pitched Soloist, the idea was simple: an app that would mute your instrument so you could practice along with backing tracks. Like a smart practice tool for musicians.
But then we actually talked to musicians.
We went to conferences, ran user interviews, and kept hearing the same story over and over: every single musician had hundreds - sometimes thousands - of unfinished songs, loops, and ideas collecting dust on their laptops or voice memos.
That's when we realized we were solving the wrong problem.
The Real Problem: Music is Lonely
The issue wasn't practice. It was isolation.
Musicians don't struggle to create ideas, they struggle to finish them alone. That guitar riff sounds cool, but it needs drums. That beat is fire, but it needs a melody. That bassline grooves, but it needs context.
At the core of music creation is collaboration. Always has been.
What We Built
So we pivoted. Soloist isn't about making "finish-ready" songs in a DAW. It's about cultivating a space for musical ideas in their rawest form, where your unfinished loop becomes someone else's starting point.
Think "one person's trash is another's treasure," but for music.
That guitar riff you recorded at 2 AM and forgot about? A drummer in Atlanta might hear exactly what it needs. Your unfinished bassline? It could be the missing piece of someone's track in London.
We're building the creative playground where bedroom ideas don't die - they evolve.
Where We're At
About a year ago, we soft-launched with zero advertising just to see what would happen. Strangers from across the globe started discovering each other's loops, adding layers, and building on ideas from musicians they'd never met.
We launched on Kickstarter to give Soloist a real chance, to prove the world actually wants collaborative loop creation. The result? 82% funded within the first week. Way better than we ever imagined.
We wanted to share that momentum here on Product Hunt and bring you all into the journey.
Questions for the Product Hunt community:
What's sitting unfinished on your laptop right now?
Have you ever wanted to collaborate with someone but didn't know how to start?
Musicians here - what's your biggest frustration with creating alone?
🔗 Back us on Kickstarter