How Rap Genius Raised $1.8M in Seed Funding Without Knowing What We Were Doing

Re:How Rap Genius Raised $1.8M in Seed Funding Without Knowi... by rhizome on Thursday June 27, 2013 @12:58PM (#5953322)

The interesting thing is that there have come and gone browser extensions to do just this for 15 years. Maybe it makes a difference that it's all contained in the rapgenius site rather than overlaid on other sites (propriety problem) with the content served from the extension provider's servers (data protection problem).

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Re:How Rap Genius Raised $1.8M in Seed Funding Without Knowi... by liveinoakland on Thursday June 27, 2013 @01:05PM (#5953370)

The tech isn't enough without the community. Clearly there are some great annotators over on RG. I agree that starting it on a closed website is key. We all know the big hits were just refining things that had been existing in some form or other in the past. FB not first social network, Google not first search engine, etc.

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Re:How Rap Genius Raised $1.8M in Seed Funding Without Knowi... by rhizome on Thursday June 27, 2013 @02:41PM (#5953964)

I think there's a moderation angle too, since the old browser extensions invariably resulted in a hundred "LOLFAG" comments on random CNN stories.

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