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Re:Ableton Live 13 by mtalantikite on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @02:33PM (#50445140)
Years ago there was a startup called Splice here in NYC where the original product was basically just that -- version control and collaboration for Ableton (and maybe other DAWs?). I remember having an interview at Union Square Ventures for a role there and a couple of the partners asked me about them as they were an investment, and I really couldn't see a viable business in it the same way GitHub was for git. I brought up the storage costs as well.

I just looked them up and it seems like they're still around and pivoted to a learning DAW and a plugin marketplace.

Re:Ableton Live 13 by cachvico on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @02:55PM (#50445456)
I was working on exactly the same idea - mobile app to record stems, cloud-based projects - and I remember the sinking feeling when I read the TechCrunch article covering Splice's launch.

Surprised that 10 years later on there's still no industry juggernaut owning collab music production.