Coshx Labs is giving away $50k: last day to vote (50k of development work)

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50k of development work

Another YouTube audio player?

There's a reason why they come and go so fast: YouTube API TOS.

II. Prohibitions

Your API Client will not, and You will not encourage or create functionality for Your users or other third parties to:

8. separate, isolate, or modify the audio or video components of any YouTube audiovisual content made available through the YouTube API;

9. promote separately the audio or video components of any YouTube audiovisual content made available through the YouTube API;

Huge shoutout for Streamus which seems to be the top idea right now. It's a chrome extension that plays YouTube audio. It's so slick and is amazing for all those live/obscure tracks you can't get elsewhere. $50k would go a long way for the developer so he can work full time on smoothing out bugs and adding features.

love streamus! is it still in the top?

Apparently they're gonna win, however seems they'll choose a winner among top 5

Didn't win.

I messaged David Cohen directly and he stated,

"1. normal people don't install extensions in their browser. so a bit hard to go mainstream. 2. you're riding on top of a service (youtube) that can shut you down. 3. music is a tough space for investors generally - many (like me) have just stayed away from it."

I'm excited to prove him wrong.

$50k of development work.

Thanks, just updated the title

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