Canadian Startup Wavo.Me Wants to Become the Social Network for Music

Posted by glesperance on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @07:13PM
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http://www.techvibes.com/blog/canadian-startup-wavome-wants-to-become-the-social-network-for-music-2012-10-03

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Re:Canadian Startup Wavo.Me Wants to Become the Social Netwo... by ConstantineXVI on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @07:36PM (#4610164)

As someone who until very recently worked for a ex-Canadian (moved here to Louisville) social music-related startup, I wish them the best of luck.

EDIT: on first glance; pretty nice work. Looks much cleaner and user-friendly than our own attempt at this sort of site. Slows Chrome down to a crawl, though.

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Re:Canadian Startup Wavo.Me Wants to Become the Social Netwo... by infinitone on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @08:04PM (#4610258)

Looks cool, but the site was a bit abrupt, it looked like i landed on someone musician's myspace page. I think it could use a bit more clean/minimalism.

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Re:Canadian Startup Wavo.Me Wants to Become the Social Netwo... by cclark20 on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @08:16PM (#4610295)

Coming in through the frontpage is rough as most of our referral traffic comes through Facebook viral loops so we've allotted our waking hours to optimize for that funnel. But you're right and we're going to be overhauling the whole design soon to get it cleaner and more minimal once we finish building out the BETA features! (Conor CEO wavo)

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Re:Canadian Startup Wavo.Me Wants to Become the Social Netwo... by jsnk on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @08:21PM (#4610310)

Your Airbrake API key is exposed on the client side. I would fix that up as soon as possible.

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Re:Canadian Startup Wavo.Me Wants to Become the Social Netwo... by glesperance on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @08:26PM (#4610328)

Hey there, (wavo CTO here)

It is my understanding that running airbrake in the browser does need you to somehow provide the API key to the client[1].

Could you explain a bit more in detail what makes you worry about having the API key on the client?

[1]http://help.airbrake.io/kb/troubleshooting-2/javascript-noti...

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Re:Canadian Startup Wavo.Me Wants to Become the Social Netwo... by jsnk on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @08:52PM (#4610412)

My bad. False alarm.

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Re:Canadian Startup Wavo.Me Wants to Become the Social Netwo... by badclient on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @07:45PM (#4610199)

I'd avoid this industry like a plague.

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Re:Canadian Startup Wavo.Me Wants to Become the Social Netwo... by ConstantineXVI on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @10:03PM (#4610574)

Hollywood isn't going to fix itself. I still think anyone attempting to deal with them is crazy (speaking from experience), but leaving them alone just lets Hollywood get even more insulated from reality.

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Re:Canadian Startup Wavo.Me Wants to Become the Social Netwo... by badclient on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @11:07PM (#4610718)

Ya, also from experience :)

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Re:Canadian Startup Wavo.Me Wants to Become the Social Netwo... by jamesgagan on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @08:14PM (#4610291)

wow it reminds me a lot of a music site I had a hand in, http://songspin.fm - it has a bit of traction, but this area is definitely a tough nut to crack

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Re:Canadian Startup Wavo.Me Wants to Become the Social Netwo... by mmanfrin on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @07:58PM (#4610236)

What, like Myspace?

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Re:Canadian Startup Wavo.Me Wants to Become the Social Netwo... by Android666 on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @08:33PM (#4610351)

Nice work wavo crew!

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