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Ask HN: Rate my Start-up mixcloud.com

27 points by matclayton ↗ HN
We have been very busy working away on http://www.mixcloud.com since entering private beta at SXSW back in March. Today we finally opened up the doors to the public!

The concept is simple, aim to become the "You-Tube of Radio".

We would love to hear any and all feedback.

25 comments

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rawson
It's so social! promote yourself as a presenter/show/dj/artist, i like it!
[dead] anthonyjhicks
Loving mixcloud.com - definitely one to keep an eye on!
guruslan
I have been testing this while it was in beta and I loved it to every bit. Nice and sleek. With so much interesting content it will definitely be the next big thing!
robbiehudson
Just been trying this out. Loving the music. Sometimes it's difficult to figure out which track you're listening to.
matclayton
We are already working on ways to solve this, just didn't make it into this release.
adrianwaj
I have been using http://play.it so far - it has mainstream streaming music. Like a jukebox, but allows you to skip a certain number of songs per hour. No radio announcers if desired. It also allows people to create their own streams out of their library.
[dead] LucianT
Great stuff. Good business model.
[dead] nathanlon
Great to listen to - looking forward to all the new music I'll discover.
mitko
I would like playing a recording not to pop-up in a new window. YouTube doesn't pop the video out.
matclayton
We've looked into both solutions, pop out and inline player, but the one thing we want to achieve was continuous playing whilst browsing the site. Doing this inline, is technically more difficult, so for now, we made it pop out.

Certainly will look into inline though.

Mat

secret
I kind of like how hype machine does it. But even still, the player disappears when you leave some pages.
boggles
What's your plan for dealing with potential lawsuits from the RIAA?
[dead] pjkoelemeijer
I love mixcloud.com, everybody should join up!
[dead] kjd
awesome app - keep up the good work guys
dangrossman
First thing I wanted to do was figure out exactly what the site was. I clicked "About" but my question was not answered. Instead I had a screen with only a video on it, the first 10 seconds of which are nothing but a logo.

Something as simple as "The YouTube of Radio" on that page would've answered my question in a fraction of a second, and I would've been back to the home page to see if I wanted to use it...

matclayton
Thanks, we only rolled that out late last night, the about page definitely needs some wording adding, will be done ASAP. Thanks for the feedback.

Mat

calvin
The number of fake/new accounts created to comment on this post is incredibly disturbing.
dugmartin
Yeah, kinda skeezy.
[dead] many
Hey, I'm a real live schizophrenic and I've been hear 18 months. The site is rad, but I'm a dues-paying subscriber on last.fm. My critique of this site rests about the exclusivity of demographic. Does anyone outside of 18-24yr-olds show up on the radar?
vaksel
the easier it is to create an account, the more astroturfing will happen.
boggles
What a great word.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing

"Astroturfing is a word in English describing formal political, advertising, or public relations campaigns seeking to create the impression of being spontaneous "grassroots" behavior, hence the reference to the artificial grass, AstroTurf."

raquo
I don't see how it benefits the submission though when it's so evident. I personally didn't even follow the link because of these spamlike comments.
byoung2
Maybe there should be a Karma threshold on commenting on "Rate My Startup" posts
jasonlbaptiste
I'm glad that we a) have a community that is smart enough to pick up on this and fast (doesn't take rocket science) b) actually cares about pointing it out. People always ask me why HN hasn't gone to shit and I point to comments like this. ++community
matclayton
That's my fault, can assure you none of them are fake, lot of them are new though. Tweeted the link out, and our followers seem a little excited to help out today, a few probably just signed up.

Mat