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.
Some additional feature ideas I thought of (not sure if these were introduced by others or in progress, but here it goes!):
Song discovery mode (by genre/mood/etc) that plays a song and you can log it while listening, so it encourages logging releases with more passive listening
Search for singles that are outside of albums as well. I tried looking up songs like "All The Small Things" by blink-182 and it didn't come up unless I clicked into Enema of The State (the album) and dug in to log a release on that.
Maybe rebrand 'log a release' to something like 'review a song' or 'give your thoughts on a song', something that's less technical
Introduce hashtags or communities to find and write about songs in certain genres
Give option to tag your account as an artist and give artists more tools to promote to certain communities and grow their own profile. Maybe give artists tips to review their own music and others and how to build a community
Host challenges to see who the most reviewed was for the day and award points to the profile for the most reviews for a day (that are quality)
Add more social sharing to improve platform discovery
Allow artists certain number of 'featured' credits per month for free to feature their songs in certain placements (like free ad placements) in order to promote singles or logs of their own songs.
Allow users to discover lists and promote their lists like playlists on Spotify in order to grow listenership. Maybe even public lists that everyone can contribute to
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Some additional feature ideas I thought of (not sure if these were introduced by others or in progress, but here it goes!):
Song discovery mode (by genre/mood/etc) that plays a song and you can log it while listening, so it encourages logging releases with more passive listening
Search for singles that are outside of albums as well. I tried looking up songs like "All The Small Things" by blink-182 and it didn't come up unless I clicked into Enema of The State (the album) and dug in to log a release on that.
Maybe rebrand 'log a release' to something like 'review a song' or 'give your thoughts on a song', something that's less technical
Introduce hashtags or communities to find and write about songs in certain genres
Give option to tag your account as an artist and give artists more tools to promote to certain communities and grow their own profile. Maybe give artists tips to review their own music and others and how to build a community
Host challenges to see who the most reviewed was for the day and award points to the profile for the most reviews for a day (that are quality)
Add more social sharing to improve platform discovery
Allow artists certain number of 'featured' credits per month for free to feature their songs in certain placements (like free ad placements) in order to promote singles or logs of their own songs.
Allow users to discover lists and promote their lists like playlists on Spotify in order to grow listenership. Maybe even public lists that everyone can contribute to
I just tried to sign up twice. I used two different codes that were sent to my email address. Both times, when I entered the code, I got a message that said "This page does not exist".
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What a great idea and a beautiful looking app!
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@mattdavey Thank you Matt! All credit @carlfairclough for making it look beautiful
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@mattdavey @musicben plus @pyyding @shaunchurch for filling in so many blanks
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This looks cool, I'll try to use it
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@shushantlakhyani Thanks Shushant! Have fun picking your top 8 albums of all time :)
Music geek gone into tech -- beyond excited to try this!