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We accept payments via both Stripe and PayPal, and I have to say, trying to find a baremetrics-esque solution for us has been insanely frustrating. We're still calculating LTV, churn, etc. by hand since surprisingly none of these services actually support both, and by looking at the metrics from only one payment source we're missing out on the bigger picture.

So glad to see someone finally made one for PayPal, but without support for other payment systems, I don't see it being able to compete with what's out there. This would only be useful for a company accepting payments from JUST PayPal, which as others have pointed out is probably a rare case these days.

ChartMogul claims to be working on PayPal support, so hopefully that will come through. In the meantime, I still think there's a huge hole in this market for supporting PayPal + other services.

Just want to chime in as a regular requester here - mTurk is a major part of our business, and we've found that treating mTurk workers with respect (answering their emails promptly, communicating with them on forums, giving a fair pay rate) results in extremely high quality work that we can verify as high quality.

Our trick is to give a slightly lower base pay rate and then give bonuses to workers who provide higher quality work so they're more likely to come back. We watch our turkopticon ratings very closely to make sure we're doing right by them.

There are a lot of bad requesters and a lot of bad workers, but if you know how to use it the work can actually be immensely valuable. As a requester, having workers voluntarily post your HITs to forums and /r/HITsWorthTurkingFor/ tends to drive the largest number of high quality results.

This is really, really impressive. Cool range of sounds. Have you thought about attaching a user-friendly, knobby interface to the modules? I could see it as a really easy way for non-programming musicians to learn how to use this and other music generation systems like it.

Understood - I'm really trying to figure out the right mix of valid information with advertisement for the service. For what it's worth, this post was an honest account of our motivations in making this.

I feel like Apple's rejection of this app / DMCA shutdown of apple-tracker supports its brilliantly annoying marketing - scarcity creates mystery. The fact that you might not be able to get it makes you want it more; not knowing what iPhones they have in stock adds a weird level of excitement to the process of purchasing one.

Apple could make this app in a second, but they don't because they want you to wonder, they want you to fret, and they want to make it that much more satisfying when you actually get it.

Confession: I totally faked the referrals on distrokid, using 5 dispostable.com emails, and was frankly a little surprised when it worked. Strangely, I don't see the "scholarship" plan as an option when I log in, but maybe it only applies to new phonies?

At any rate props to you pud, for so many reasons... it's a fantastic model and a great product execution. It's the first product that encourages casual music distribution - but that's exactly why I didn't, and probably won't, pay for it.

I have 2 albums up on tunecore, that actually generate revenue. These are albums - professionally recorded, produced, etc. - that I spent money creating, and that I make money back from. I picked tunecore because they were the best thing available at the time, but if I were to do another big release, I'd use them again (despite the fact that I'm not thrilled with the company at the moment because Jeff Price is a great guy and they totally screwed him). And at the end of the day, it's because they have the most distribution partners, and because they send me a check every month. tunecore is for music that I want people to buy.

Then Distrokid came out, and I celebrated. I'm sure there are exceptions to this, but musicians make tons of songs that never see the light of day. Maybe the song isn't entirely finished, maybe it's not good enough to pay for mastering, maybe it's part of a musical direction the musician changed his or her mind on. I've got a ton of these, and these are what I'm using distrokid for. I'm not really promoting these tracks, I'm not expecting a great return from them. A lot of them are unfinished experiments or lo-fi fun, nothing market-worthy. But I can put these up for my friends, other musicians, etc. to hear on Spotify at a higher quality than soundcloud can provide.

As soon as I make $19.99 from distrokid, I'll buy the yearly, more as a thank you than anything else. But until then, I'm probably going to keep my phony free account.

And pud - if you can match tunecore's number of distributors and earnings reporting... well, "disruption" doesn't even scratch the surface.

Really like this, nice work. Is there a way to automatically mummify every link on an entire website or directory? Your method/service could be an interesting, easy to use way to recall a read-only version of a site after it goes down.