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Hehe, I made it to TC now how cool is that.

Why does the article start off with "a bootstrapped startup from Agentbleu, a Englishman living in France" and in the end say the location is in India? Did they get it wrong?

company is based in India, it's just me that is in France ;-)

we just got crunched ourselves yesterday (see: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/16/soocial-makes-plaxo-loo...). we tried to get techcrunched a year but that was way to early (hindsight).

pick the moment you know you are up for it and then make sure you visit an event where some editor of techcrunch is and give them a demo. face to face contact really is so much more powerful than an e-mail from a stranger. thats how it worked for us, anyways!

Only currently available for macs, love it. long live Apple.

Spazmaster, for server scalability I might suggest running a linode. I run my apps from a Linode and use the YC backed startup Virtualmin for setting up the domains. I highly recommend both of these products, and my app survived getting crunched with 20% headroom all times (so far).

Keep us updated with the traffic effect from the TechCrunch mention.

sure will report back as it cools off

suggestion: you actual logo size is 600x150, but you are shrinking it into 500x125, as a result, the quality is degraded. You logo looks much better in actual size: http://www.myplaylist.biz/i/myplaylist.jpg

thanks

Traffic serge has been interesting, as a result of TC article it also made the popular list on delicious and as you know here too, then other blogs kicked in, one Spanish one which seemed to bring a nice flux of traffic too. The main serge lasted about 8 hours, then flattened off, and now its back to a mix of natural traffic and some residue from the articles. Id say at this point I had about 15K uniques hit it as a direct result but thats a guess and wont know for sure until tomorrow now. I think that's not bad given TC isn't a music blog per say with limited interest from many in this sector. But I'm v pleased to have been given the opportunity and very proud to be a part of this community here.

Good job! May I ask how you managed to do that?

Believe me it was not easy. Last year I made an app and they totally snuffed it. Someone somewhere along the line made a comment saying 'just move on, make another and another', I did and they still ignored it, bastards ha (lol). There is no formula, I suggest getting whatever you're making off the ground with SEO and once you gain some traction they might just take you more seriously (hopefully).

congrates man :) any suggestion how my application rivals4ever.com can get techcrunched ??

Congrats, man

That is one badass web app you've got there. I'm enjoying it right now. One GUI issue: The controls and song info are displayed on top of the slideshow, which leads to them being unreadable 25% of the time. (When they're on top of very bright or white pictures) I would move it down below the slideshow onto a stable background.

There's also no home link from the listen page.

Once again, nice app. I'll be using for a bit. Oh, and you should block Pandora adds from your Adsense account.

home link is called search, and the best way to use it is in full screen mode, then the controls are clear enough. Ideal situation is just to start it off and let it fill your day with music similar to your first choice.

How did you get on techcrunch? emailed them or they just found out?

I had to kidnap MA's dog.

did TC contact you before they cover you?

yes they let me know it was going to be covered 24 hours in advance and I switched the server to a larger one with 300Mg more ram. It handled it all well, but Im glade I migrated it as I was down to 20% head room during the best of it.

Pretty sweet. Question: is it possible for an embed not to immediately start playing when a person hits my blog?

Yea I will add that in a few days.

Cool app!

It's funny listening to tool & metallica and watching pictures of puppies and snowmen. Is this legal? Is it "fair use" because it's remixing music with pictures?

edit: I'm not seeing where it says what the current song is? Any pointers?

legal yes (see above link), in the player at the bottom right it has the track playing.

Congrats, although your logo image on the homepage is a bit distorted because you're trying to squeeze it into smaller dimensions (making the font look jagged). May want to get that cleared up.

Congrats, pretty cool. Just tried pink floyd and was pretty cool. Hope ur server can handle tones of traffic from techcrunch. Is it not illegal to play songs retreived from other sources?

http://thenextweb.org/2008/01/30/the-music-wars-continue-war...

Pretty cool app.

What I'm missing, is a way to get info on the current image. Maybe a click on the image could bring up the Flickr side in a new tab?

will add this function asap, thanks

Congratz! 15K hits only? I thought getting TCed would get you at least 50K to 75K. Still great.. and good app too. thanks!

Congrats!

Why does Arrington call Pandora "geo-retarded"?

It is US-only. (Last FM is not).

N.B. The article was by Duncan Riley, not Arrington.

congratulations, but with the over-emphasis on music 2.0 on sites like techcrunch, there may be other sites where you want coverage

Congrats!

Congrats

Grats!!!

Hehe I got Hackernews'ed too Bonus points. ding ding. lol

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