News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices. Parent comment

Re:SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices by amyjess on Thursday July 06, 2017 @12:53PM (#14711806)
Oddly enough, when I first heard of SoundCloud, it was in a completely different context from either. I first saw it used as a pastebin for voice recordings.

Specifically, members of some online transgender communities use it to solicit community feedback on their voices. They'll record themselves talking, post it to SoundCloud, and ask the community for input on what they could do better.

I don't think there's enough of a market for "pastebin for voice recordings" to be a successful business though.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices by Nadya on Thursday July 06, 2017 @01:01PM (#14711862)
Pastebin for voice recordings is basically what vocaroo.com is, and I discovered that in the same context you discovered SoundCloud. And also because popular use by 4chan.

When I first heard of SoundCloud it was mostly used by self-releasing EDM artists as a place to upload their music, before YouTube was a popular alternative. Nowadays I see a lot of artists buying visualizer templates and uploading their music with that - or sending it to an aggregator on YouTube who displays a certain style of music (many of these aggregators don't seek artist permission and just upload popular songs and such, but many of the ones I follow get things sent to them by indie artists because a channel with 60,000+ subs will beat their own personal channel for recognition).

[ Parent | on HN ]