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Is TheSixtyOne a YC Startup?

15 pointsjmtame11 comments

I'm just wondering if TheSixtyOne.com is a product of YCombinator? I recently discovered it (and work for a media startup myself), and I find it fascinating.

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This is one of my favorite sites. As someone who makes websites for a living, I'm very impressed by what they've put together. One of the better music sites that I've used (and I've seen a lot of them)

I believe it is Sam Hsiung's project (YC alum - YouOS) with probably with James Miao? I wanted to donate so they could get a Mac and build an iPhone app but I'm in the hole a few grand myself. I love the 61, it has one of the best incentives/reputation systems I know - points with levels and each level gives you different abilities, like bumping up songs more.

http://www.thesixtyone.com/stammy/collection/

Despite going there and poking around briefly, I have absolutely no idea what this site does. I guess in that respect it is like iilwy, except with iilwy you can poke around for a day and still have no clue.

Wow, it is indeed pretty cool. It's like a combination of YC companies iJigg and iilwy.

http://www.thesixtyone.com/#/static/about/

Founded by at least one YC alum

strangely enough.. i find myself addicted to this site

it would be nice if there was a recent playlist so that i can re-play again the songs i played.

it should be automatically added in the temporary playlist if it was played it for more than 1/2 of the time of the song.

update: i see they playlist is the results of the current page. So i suppose the order of the playlist could be re-ordered in the way i play it.

maybe the best solution is to add two buttons more for previous/next within my playlist and not the results of the current page.

If you have an account, you can access your recently played history by going to your profile and then hitting the music tab. We're also working on an easier way to access your play history from the mini-player at the bottom left.

i'd also chime in and say that you caught us right in the middle of a redesign of our music miniplayer. things should be a bit clearer in a week or so. thanks for taking the time to leave your thoughts!

What a cool concept, but what a frustrating site!

I think I'm addicted in spite of the navigation/functional issues, but definitely I'm looking forward to improvements.

what's bothering you? if you would be so kind: james at thesixtyone dot com

for some reason, i'm not able to load the site in firefox anymore. shortly after i posted this, it throws back "failed to connect" errors.

i tried in a CGI proxy, works fine, so i know it's not my internet connection. i cleared my cache too. i'm using latest version of ff and ie.

adding the "www" prefix doesn't help either (i know some DNS setups are picky about that)

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