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Listn is Napster of Mobile. Partners with Rdio. Lands $500k.

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Congratulations to a talented, tightly-knit team of founders. It's rare to find four people who have such great synergy and single unified direction. They have a great mix of design, engineering and marketing among them and the fact they are so in love with music coupled with this round of financing tells me the Listn app will keep growing.

Go kill it!

Hey guys! I am the CEO of Listn. Our mission is to provide the best experience for people all around the world to connect with each other through the music they love, no matter where they get their music from. Hope you enjoy the app. If you have any questions or concerns please email me: mike@listn.co

First: congrats on the funding!

A suggestion (not really just for you, but given the headline it's applicable): don't describe yourself as the X of Y [1]. It carries with it any negative connotations that may be associated - fairly or not - with X. Second, it doesn't really define what your product is. It just says your product is like this other product X.

In particular here, it's a bit worse: "napster of mobile" doesn't really mean a whole lot - peer-to-peer file sharing that was shut down? music download service that was sold and re-sold? Doesn't seem like either one fits, after visiting your site.

[1] Not sure if that came from you or if submitter has no relation.

I had the pleasure of going through FounderFuel at the same time as the Listn folks - they aren't the type to base their positioning on comparing with other services. I think it's safe to say they only used the X to Y connotation for its great subject line value.

Congrats to the M5Labs boy band :-)

Hey! thanks for the note! It's just meant to be punchy and stand out :) We don't actually aim to be Napster for mobile.

Have been using the app for a month now. really well done. especially aggregating music sources. i use hypem a lot but it has always seemed disconnected to the rest of the music on my phone.

Although I love the idea of not jumping from music app to music app - it really is a buzzkill - I wonder if listn will be able to integrate everything that's out there. I personally love: thefuture.fm, songza, soundcloud and obviously youtube (where else can you get all the splendor of wrecking ball) but then that means listn is half way to my dream coming true. The partnership with RDIO, which I know is super popular, is definitely impressive.

Hey guys, CTO of listn here. More services are always in the pipeline we had to stop adding new ones at some point and focus on making sure the ones already in there are as perfect as they could be.

Congrats Mike!

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