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Canadian Startup Wavo.Me Wants to Become the Social Network for Music

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As someone who until very recently worked for a ex-Canadian (moved here to Louisville) social music-related startup, I wish them the best of luck.

EDIT: on first glance; pretty nice work. Looks much cleaner and user-friendly than our own attempt at this sort of site. Slows Chrome down to a crawl, though.

Looks cool, but the site was a bit abrupt, it looked like i landed on someone musician's myspace page. I think it could use a bit more clean/minimalism.

Coming in through the frontpage is rough as most of our referral traffic comes through Facebook viral loops so we've allotted our waking hours to optimize for that funnel. But you're right and we're going to be overhauling the whole design soon to get it cleaner and more minimal once we finish building out the BETA features! (Conor CEO wavo)

Your Airbrake API key is exposed on the client side. I would fix that up as soon as possible.

Hey there, (wavo CTO here)

It is my understanding that running airbrake in the browser does need you to somehow provide the API key to the client[1].

Could you explain a bit more in detail what makes you worry about having the API key on the client?

[1]http://help.airbrake.io/kb/troubleshooting-2/javascript-noti...

My bad. False alarm.

I'd avoid this industry like a plague.

Hollywood isn't going to fix itself. I still think anyone attempting to deal with them is crazy (speaking from experience), but leaving them alone just lets Hollywood get even more insulated from reality.

Ya, also from experience :)

wow it reminds me a lot of a music site I had a hand in, http://songspin.fm - it has a bit of traction, but this area is definitely a tough nut to crack

What, like Myspace?

Nice work wavo crew!

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