The site needs someone young and hungry to work their ass off for equity. Interested programers should contact mark@fratmusic.com.
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/fratmusic.com#
Have these been resolved? Can you expand upon what happened and how you resolved it?
Also:
> The site needs someone young and hungry to work their ass off for equity.
If you can't afford to pay a programmer, you should probably just work your own ass off.
Are you suggesting that it is unethical for people to work for equity?
The equity being offered here is probably worth nothing, or worse, is a liability. Especially since it's being offered to a "young and hungry" AKA "green" programmer who doesn't know that yet.
You're a far more optimistic person than I am.
Hence, this controversy just comes down to different ways in which people define and use concepts. Personally, I find it useful to be able to think in both modes.
It's recent shutdown caused quit a bit of chatter among all of us and we were sad to see it go. It would be great for it to come back with an even better and more substantial offering.
To start, Mark is a great co-founder. He doesn't code, but he always has a strong vision about the product. Yes, at first I thought that a visionary co-founder was a glorified way of saying over-zealous MBA, but Mark has the ability to see both the forest and the trees when it comes to building a product and developing software on a constrained schedule. The two of us worked extensively on the product, building and scaling it from a simple flatpage app to something that appealed to college kids around the US while handling 22 concurrent req/sec.
I left FratMusic for two reasons. First, I didn't have enough time to dedicate to developing the site. Second, I was concerned with some of the legal issues that the site could be facing. Despite this, I know Mark has been working diligently to find a way to make the site work. If I had more time, I definitely would have stuck with the project.
Technically, the site is pretty fun. I wrote it all in Django and it comes with some interesting problems, both tech and systems. From a technical perspective, I spent a fair bit of time trying to better recommend music to users, and to A/B test purchasing avenues through iTMS and Amazon. From a systems perspective, the site has a grown a lot. Last semester, we were doubling our slice's ram just about every three weeks. We switched from Apache to nginx and are now running in a full MySQL / python / fcgi / nginx / memcached environment. There are a lot of fun challenges in there to.
FratMusic is a household name on a lot of college campuses. Here's a twitter search: http://twitter.com/search?q=fratmusic. Our facebook page has about 25K fans and is growing. The site is very simple, but it works.
Anyways, if you have any questions, feel free to ping me as well. omar.bohsali@gmail.com.
Also, "frat" is not a positive word in most people's minds.
Two good reasons for changing the name before you do anything else.
Who are you? What have you done in the past? Can you show the community what you've done so far? I think the legal trouble you mention also needs some explanation (assuming you can talk about it in this open of a forum). A little effort can go a long way here.