Ampwall. Musician-owned, Public Benefit Co alternative to Bandcamp. (Eventually.) https://ampwall.com. Dogfooding it with my own band’s merch sales at https://woeunholy.ampwall.com. Digital audio will launch soon (2-3 weeks?) and we plan on starting our tests with outside bands/labels by end of year.
I’ve been building this throughout the past year but the stuff that’s publicly available is pretty basic. I was going to keep it quiet but the news about Epic selling Bandcamp two weeks ago prompted me to announce early, so might as well share it here too and really put the cart before the horse!
I have a lot of opinions about things I’ve always wanted Bandcamp to offer. While it’s going to start very similar to BC, we’re going to experiment with some very different things ASAP. The feedback I gathered throughout the year showed me that there’s a hunger for this and the response to my announcement was bigger than I expected, so I’m feeling good about it. It’s been fun to build and it’s going to get better.
It’s all Next.js and TypeScript. Hosted on Node.js servers because I don’t think serverless is for me. I’m using Porter.run for production, a YC alum whose office is in my neighborhood in Queens!