Hey ProductHunt 👋
This is Mike and I'm a maker from Italy 🇮🇹
Today I'm launching WhalePeek and another 10 software products I made in the last year, alone, bootstrapping, with no team and no CS degree.
See all the products here: https://rubini.link/ph
Metaverve is the first (?) web3 jazz record label. The intent is to get more exposure for little-known, amazing artists.
The label is only focused on publishing music that was not published before, ever! Unique pieces, exclusive demos & outtakes.
NFTs value will likely increase as these artists get more and more stage time.
Here are some reasons why I decided to build this:
1 – Because I can
As it is a running experiment, I’m starting with myself: the only music listed so far it’s music that I played and recorded. This project fits me as an artist and maker as I can play, I can code a smart contract, and I can probably get some eyeballs on the project.
2 – The music industry is broken
I wrote about this in more detail in our manifesto. Let’s face it: it doesn’t make sense to record CDs anymore: nobody buys them, and Spotify and the likes have contributed to making music more and more a commodity. It’s hard to make a living recording and selling music. Especially, for emerging artists out there.
3 – Artists are too selfish
Among the label values, the one I’m most excited about is composability, a concept that is natively part of the web3. Without getting into technical details, it lets other people build on top of our existing NFTs. And, I’m looking forward to it.
First of all, I think there’s too much ego in music, and even the concept of copyrights doesn’t seem to make sense for me anymore: ok, maybe you have written 12 notes in a certain way, but that doesn’t mean you have any rights on that particular sound. Notes and sounds are two different things.
Since web3 is decentralized, someone else can own what I made, add to it, and make something that probably I could not, and I still have to option to make a little profit from these future transactions.
Secondly, experimenting with pre-existing material is part of jazz, and actually, it’s the unique force behind it. All of us musicians do that with standards: we take something written by some guy years ago and improvise on it. This gives us more material to play with and gives us more freedom to take the music in different directions.
Thanks for reading! 🙏
Mike
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