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This can’t be a hard business to replicate right?

No. And neither is Twitter, Facebook, or Threads. Anyone can replicate all of these apps in a weekend.

If you’re talking about the difficulty of attracting a bunch of paying users, building trust in your platform, working through payments and fraud, then yeah it’s monumentally hard and takes a long time.

I don’t see Bandcamp having nearly the same network effects as those social media sites tho. Yes there are some elements — trust I think is the big one — but there’s very little if any relationship model on Bandcamp.

Technically possible, but Bandcamp is like Myspace was, and like Purevolume was before Myspace. It's the default place for small independent artists and labels to post and sell their music.

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