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Micro-communities are dangerous. Basically what happens is a separation of small differences. So what should be one community with say 20 - 30 bands all in the same genre becomes 20 or 30 communities all on individual brands.

What are you goals for the project anyway? Is it to learn, make money, find a wife?

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A bit of learning, mostly from the experience in a task like this. Plus something else to put "out there" attached to myself.

The money would be nice, but my goals for that are secondary.

Okay, awesome. I think its an awesome project for learning. You'll get community development, coding, marketing, databases, ad words experience.

I would be surprised if you make much money off of it.

pg warns against the music business, and I think he's right on a lot of things. But I think you should throw it out there and see if you get any traction.

Honestly, I have my doubts of this being a real pain point. It's like, wouldn't it be awesome if lyrics sites were better, but I'm going to go to the one that has 100% of the songs I search for.

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