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Hunter
@rrhoover Literally just signed in, BUT it did recommend something I searched for this morning so it's already better than a ton of services out there. I don't know where this goes for the company, but it looks like a great little app--possibly the layer for sharing and recommending music on Twitter that Twitter Music originally wanted to be.
I really like your use of Twitter, @mh and @viagrawal. We've been thinking about using @ProductHunt's twitter account as another channel for engagement, notifying posters when their submission reaches 250 upvotes, when 5 people they follow on Twitter upvote a product, etc. Email is traditionally used for this but that channel isn't as "real-time" for many people and gets cluttered. Twitter is meant for lightweight notifications that don't necessarily need an immediate reply (or have to be read).
How exactly are you crawling the Twitter feed and sending tweets when people "drop" a song?
P.S. The "make it louder" button is a nice touch. :)
just got it and am already loving this app.
it's a bit of a nice lightweight frontend to rdio.
it's a bit of social recommendations and sharing.
it's a bit of what sonos allows you to do in your team being able to queue up songs to play for everyone in the office.
it's a bit of pandora: i like that it took the last song i was playing and then went all pandora on that track and found similar things and ran with it (i start off the mood, it takes over, it was refreshing and surprisingly good).
reminds me a bit of perhaps the original goals of twitter music.app
@viagrawal Wow! I don't know how your doing it but the recommendations are really great almost like using Spotify radio but i like how i can quickly switch genres just by picking a different song (Y)
And as a fellow iOS developer! I love the gestures & animations. Really well thought out man! Haven't been excited an app like this for a while.
Saving to playlists and/or your music would be awesome.
Multi peer networking would be a brilliant way to send suggestions, it assumes everyone has the app but that shouldn't be too bad. If everyone gets it then it's almost frictionless sharing to the iPhone thats connected to the Jambox
@TosinAF @viagrawal thanks for the kind words tosin! our data science and algorithms teams have spent a lot of time making sure we can get you to the right music in seconds, and our design team has wanted to make sure the interactions felt extremely lightweight. i'm really grad you're enjoying the listening experience!
yes, saving music is a great idea; what do you think about saving a song quickly to your music vs. specifying an individual playlist?
Hunter
First, I can't believe you don't pay for Spotify premium @rrhoover.
Also @viagrawal, this brings up more technical questions. Like does Drop provide content resolution? If an Rdio user shares a song with a Spotify user will it just work?
Also is it Rdio and Spotify only because those services provide the best API access?
@TylerH @rrhoover @viagrawal yup! we do content resolution across the music services so that we can link people together, no matter what music service they use - after all we want everyone to be able to enjoy music. Rdio and Spotify are initial partners because they have done a really great job getting music fans excited about streaming music, and they have amazing api's to really ensure we can provide a great listening experience. any other partners you'd be interested in seeing?
Hunter
@viagrawal I'd love to see Google Music All Access and Beats (though I don't think AA is possible?)
Awesome. Personally, I see the resolution issue as a major one and keeps me sharing music across Twitter as YouTube/soundcloud links because it's the most accessible across all devices (mobile, desktop, non-subscribers)
@TylerH google music and beats would be great partners to work with. There's definitely a challenge to address content resolution, and we've made great progress with Spotify and Rdio already. It will be amazing if we can do this across all of the major music services, as then we really can link music fans across the world, no matter where they listen to music.
@willimholte hi! drop is a new music app that takes social music to a whole new level. it plays an instant mix of music based on your favorite songs from spotify or rdio, and friends can seamlessly add new tracks to the mix by just sending you a tweet with the name of the song they want to play. would love to have you play with it!
@willimholte not at all - we want to do everything we can to help folks understand (and hopefully love!) the product as easily as possible
Second recommendation was a song I have never heard, and I am digging it - great first time experience! Since I signed in via Spotify, would love to be able to save songs to my playlists. Otherwise, going to spend some time with this app!
@roryreiff Thanks! We're definitely going to look to ways to be able to save songs so you can listen and organize more in Spotify, and the key is to make that interaction as lightweight as possible. Curious if you are a bigger fan of saving songs to your music or into individual playlists, as that feedback would really help us!
@viagrawal @roryreiff I mainly save songs to my list called "Favorites" - was really bummed Spotify removed easily favoriting songs. But I still have a single playlist I save stuff too specifically.
Thanks @dtrinh, credit goes to the team. They built it to solve the social music discovery problem. It's your personal DJ for every moment. @viagrawal and I are happy to answer any questions!
@mh @viagrawal Congrats. Not available in Canada, but I'd be downloading it, if it was. How did you define the social music discovery problem, and how do you think this solves it?
Hunter
@mh was there an inspiration for this app and its functionality? Adding to the way people already use Twitter or trying to change behavior in some way?
Also the first impression is that this functionality would be better directly inside Twitter. Any thoughts about having a separate app just for sharing music?
@gt @mh @viagrawal thanks! International is definitely in the plans, and we're working closely with Spotify and Rdio to make this happen soon.
We looked at social music based on our own experience with the JAMBOX; I'm throwing a party with my friends and playing my jams, but all of my friends want to start playing their tunes; what's the easiest way to get someone to play their song on my JAMBOX?
Twitter is a great frictionless way to solve it because everyone has Twitter and it's a truly public network, allowing you to connect with your friends and other people around the world. Perfect for picking up song requests from everyone around you!
@TylerH @mh a lot of this came from our experience with social music and the JAMBOX. it's the ultimate social speaker, and when someone is playing music on the JAMBOX, everyone has that song that they want to play. We found that Twitter was perfect for making it easy to pick up song requests from your friends because of the public nature of the network.
I think the powerful part about a music app built on top of Twitter as opposed to music within tweets is that the music experience comes first. With Drop, we want to make it easy for people to get to an endless mix of music in seconds, and then layer on song requests from your friends to make that already frictionless listening experience even better. Being inside Twitter could allow you to listen to song requests, but it's limited in that people don't think of music first when they open Twitter. With Drop, it's music first, beefed up with songs from your friends.
@mh @dtrinh @viagrawal thanks! we were inspired by the problem we had around playing music in social environments; it takes a long time to get music to play, and it's ridiculously hard to curate music from the crowd. with Drop, we've designed the app to instantly play music when you launch, and easily allow friends to add songs by just tweeting - making it super simple to enjoy music with other people.
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