Ask HN: Is there no real “Show your music” website worldwide, similar to ShowHN?
* when we want to show some tech/programming projects, we can post here and eventually, if people like it, it's easy to get an audience of people interested in what we are doing, this is cool and motivating [example: 100+ votes and 800+ people liked https://github.com/josephernest/writing thanks to a previous post here]. The same applies for Reddit as well.
BUT
* When you release a new song, you post it on Reddit.com/r/Music or any other subreddit, it's very difficult to get even a small audience. It could be because my music itself is bad!, well ... maybe! (here you can listen to it: https://soundcloud.com/join-leave/run-away-feat-dyllan and https://soundcloud.com/join-leave/nouvelle-collection-ocean-souvenir) , but I've noticed it seems to happen to other people too.
More specifically:
* You can often see new content submitted by a random guy with 100+ or even 1000+ votes here on HN. This is cool!
* But I've never seen a community on the web where a random musician can put his song, and have 100+ and 1000+ likes (except maybe on Youtube, but then you need to have a cool nice video, and this is not always possible for bedroom producers).
Networks to share original music are either very small communities (so small audience) or large audience, but very restricted posting rules ("don't post your own content").
What is the reason?
Soundcloud could seem like an answer but it's not: if you post on it, nobody sees the song until you share it on another network. Soundcloud doesn't feature a Reddit/HN list-based "Post your song here" where people can upvote or downvote, in which you can discover new songs.
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TL;DR: Bedroom programmers have a large audience on internet for their projects thanks to HN or Reddit. But it seems bedroom music producers don't have a similar community. Why? Is there a reason why nobody cares about music posted by random people?
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 14.7 ms ] threadWhy do we care about programming tech projects from random people, and nobody would care about music from random people?
A random developer saying “hey checkout this npm package I wrote to do XYZ” is something that could directly be useful to people in their own projects or in the future.
This is probably less true for music, except if you are really really moved by a song, to the point it could change your life (this can happen a few times per decade or per year but not so often)...
The main part of HN is the community. The initial community of HN was the readers of Paul Graham blog, and some exiles from r/programing. So you have an initial community with some common interest. Then you must apply a lot of heavy moderation to try to keep the soul of the community and grow it slowly.
StackOverflow has a similar story. The initial community of HN was the readers of JoelOnSofware and CodingHorror blogs. So you have an initial community with some common interest. Then you must apply a lot of heavy moderation to try to keep the soul of the community and grow it slowly.
My recommendation is to build a nice blog with a nice community of musicians and people that like music, and the transform it into a music aggregator. It's not easy, each step is difficult, and the level of spam will be very higher.