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Comment by omrim | Hacker News Reader

Hey HN,

I've been working on this project with a kick-ass team for the past 8 months, and we finally launched it last week.

ZIIBRA helps up-and-coming artists make music their full time job. Using our music platform, the more fans that pledge to purchase an album the cheaper a project becomes because the price is driven down through their social network outreach. Cheaper price = Happy fans. Plus, the artists benefit too. By pre-selling a new album, artists get fan reach, cash flow to fund the project, and a marketing platform to cross-promote their new work!

I was hoping to get some feedback back from the community...

Cheers,

Omri

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Don't make me connect my facebook in order to play music. http://cl.ly/0N1t3A3d013I061v2829 Don't care that it's only 30 seconds away, I don't want to give you my data before hearing some music and deciding whether or not it's worth it.

Also, seeing "30 seconds" in this interrupting popup (even before reading it) makes me think that I'll only get 30 second previews of the music.

That's as far as I got, since I can't play any music.

The model is neat. http://www.ziibra.com/browse looks really cool.

Thanks for the kind words!

We're doing the Facebook/Twitter (coming soon) login because we're going to add features that are centric to interacting with your friends on ZIIBRA/ your networks.

What about those of us who don't use facebook or twitter? Or any social networking service, for that matter?

We're working on a log-in after we get twitter up. Will stay in touch and let you know!

OK, but don't forget those of us who either don't use FB/Twitter, or who want to keep separate online IDs for different things (eg if your Facebook identity is wrapped up with your day job and you'd rather your fellow librarians didn't know you were in an avant-garde industrial band named Earbleeder).

disclaimer: not a member or fan of any bands called Earbleeder

Music site. No music.

Aw, c'mon. They probably worked their ass off to get those artists to sign up with them before the site even launched. Watch a band like Radiohead or NIN give 'em a wink and it will blow up like stove top jiffy pop.

Also, my 2c on the site design: Its trendy and neat, but off-white, sans-serif font on a black background makes for a hard read. Otherwise I like it. Minimalism, hoo-rah.

I love the concept. I hope it takes off like crazy! And I think it will.

Haha thank you! We've been busting our ass off to do something we love.

Noting the off-white font comment!

-OM

"Aw, c'mon. They probably worked their ass off to get those artists to sign up with them before the site even launched."

That's right. And precisely because they worked very hard for that, I added my comment to let them know they are now throwing away most of that effort because they hide the music behind some login. I would put the music out there and annoy people with the login or at least, learn from the drug dealers: first time it's free (more like first 10 times it's free).

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