Songwhip – Share a music link to every platform

Re:Songwhip – Share a music link to every platform by wilsonpage on Sunday August 23, 2020 @05:42PM (#24255512)

Hey I'm Wilson,

I designed and built Songwhip (solo) and continue to work on it fulltime. Happy to answer any questions :)

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Re:Songwhip – Share a music link to every platform by psnatch on Sunday August 23, 2020 @11:59PM (#24257423)

I love the use of human-readable URL's. The ability to cut the song title out and go to the Artist page (for example) is really neat. Nice work Wilson - I'll be using it!

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Re:Songwhip – Share a music link to every platform by wilsonpage on Monday August 24, 2020 @04:43AM (#24258633)

Great, thanks for the kind words! :) I've been working on the project for almost 3 years, so it hasn't been a quick hack by any means. I came from a front-end background and have had to learn the whole stack.

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Re:Songwhip – Share a music link to every platform by maheart on Sunday August 23, 2020 @08:07PM (#24256395)

Very cool, well done.

Two questions: 1. Do you plan to monetize it to aid in the sustainability of this product? 2. Any thoughts on implementing this functionality for playlists?

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Re:Songwhip – Share a music link to every platform by wilsonpage on Monday August 24, 2020 @04:35AM (#24258573)

1. Yes I'm planning on releasing Songwhip Pro (https://songwhip.com/pro) which will be a customizable version of the free product targeted at artists, labels and marketers. It'll allow an artist name to be 'claimed' unlocking write access and pro-only features.

2. I don't have the bandwidth to take on playlist functionality at this time. I'm trying to focus the offering and really nail the original problem before taking on new challenges. I've seen competitors try to spread themselves too thin and end up not doing anything exceptionally.

Hope that makes sense :)

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Re:Songwhip – Share a music link to every platform by marmshallow on Sunday August 23, 2020 @06:12PM (#24255734)

Awesome product. Are there any worries that platforms may restrict the APIs that you depend on?

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Re:Songwhip – Share a music link to every platform by shivpatelssp on Sunday August 23, 2020 @07:45PM (#24256268)

I'm also curious how you're doing this. One of my apps heavily uses the Spotify API and Spotify has started to get very strict on who uses their API and if/how they are allowed to monetize.

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Re:Songwhip – Share a music link to every platform by wilsonpage on Monday August 24, 2020 @04:39AM (#24258603)

I haven't had any issues from Spotify API yet. I've had days where it's been slammed pretty hard. YouTube has the most strict quotas, but you can apply to have them increased which I've done several times.

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Re:Songwhip – Share a music link to every platform by tiborsaas on Sunday August 23, 2020 @07:40PM (#24256249)

If you work on this full time, how do you plan to monetize it?

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Re:Songwhip – Share a music link to every platform by wilsonpage on Monday August 24, 2020 @04:40AM (#24258612)

I make a small amount of commission through traffic I send to Apple and Amazon. ATM this just about covers my costs. I'm hoping with scale will come some partnership opportunities and I'm also working on a Pro offering (songwhip.com/pro).

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Re:Songwhip – Share a music link to every platform by libraryatnight on Sunday August 23, 2020 @10:55PM (#24257177)

Hi Wilson, this is neat. Thanks for the work. This is a way nicer page than the one Distrokid generates for sharing releases!

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Re:Songwhip – Share a music link to every platform by wilsonpage on Monday August 24, 2020 @04:41AM (#24258621)

Thanks so much, I really hope I can keep up. As a one-man-band I feel a little vulnerable to being trampled by the big boys.

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