I run a music project called Tequila Funk (you can check Spotify).
I noticed a lot of musicians just record their phone screen with Dropbox app player (because they're exporting snippets to Ableton Live) or recording their DAW (which requires setup). Some examples:
https://twitter.com/littlesnakexoxo/status/16470785687852277... https://twitter.com/eprombeats/status/1647072160547246081 https://twitter.com/nyptane/status/1669404466083143680 https://twitter.com/jayjaytet/status/1639613178412670980 https://twitter.com/staynsdubs/status/1664496810268688384
All I wanted is to provide a way to pick a file from Dropbox and get a video to post in your socials in around ~60 seconds. And do this from your phone!
I see people telling that there's a lot of open source visualizers, Winamp and all that jazz. Yeah, sure. But for me personally it's tough to setup all these. All I wanted is to make videos fast, even without using a computer. Most musicians can't clone github repo or setup audio routing lol
Personally I think that this project is really onto something, I can see music visualization being a really great integrated feature into a lot of different pieces of software, such as in a spotify player, or ableton, youtube etc...
I think that your idea is in the right place but your go to market motion needs some work as other people pointed out. I don't know if you're going to find a lot of solo producers, or individual devs willing to pay 8$ a month for this.
I could see there being a generous free tier and then having it scale as the use of the product increases. There are also other options for changing monetization.
If you want to talk about this more, I work with companies a lot to discuss pricing strategy and gtm motions. Feel free to ping me my contact info is in my profile.
All the rivalry and shady tricks on Spotify suggest that the competition to get attention as an emerging artist is huge.
What you mentioned about dropbox and screen recording was a great observation. I would double down on the niche and see how else are artist trying to gain an edge when promoting.
I think we here don't really appreciate how narrow the average online producers' technical expertise is.
"A small team of high-skilled product developers has created and launched mini-startups for the last 5 years. We will build and help to validate your product idea in 30 days."
Sorry for being offtopic, but you can find my artist page if you search for "Tequila Funk". I make electronic music.
1. CDJ 3000 2. Specre 3. Circle
But I was working on another two and decided not to include in the first version:
4. Trip (https://cdn.banger.show/visuals/160-Tequila-Funk-Drop-The-Bo...) 5. Perimeter (https://cdn.banger.show/visuals/1579016767_flux-pavilion-i-c...)
Be careful if your internet traffic is limited, videos are not compressed/optimized and 150-300mb both.
Cool project.
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I think the term is audiogram but minus the transcript.
While writing this reply I found this https://getaudiogram.com/ So maybe it’s something to check out. (I’m not affiliated)
we have an API for converting audio into video - https://getaudiogram.com/api/
it's not self-serve at the moment, we manually onboard new clients
1. Audio file URL 2. Duration in frames 3. Frame rate (FPS)
And outputs a .mp4 video file to S3 bucket.
So it's quite easy to make a REST API version. Let's keep in touch if solution mentioned above does not satisfy you. My email: igor@tequilafunk.com
But: 1) It's expensive for most music producers that can't make a single dollar out of their music
2) If you want to reach rich producers the visuals need to improve by A LOT. It looks really amateur, being honest here.
This doesn’t invalidate this new service, but it might limit its competitiveness compared to self hosted apps.
All the visuals are done by HTML/CSS and Web Audio API now.
If you can come up with a visualizer that shows the entire song/clip at once, I think that’ll be much stronger.
Despite the fact that DAW recording is technically more difficult to do, sometimes it looks really cool - when you open a bunch of VST visualizers (like iZotope Insight, Minimeters and others), and also people use custom themes for their DAW (for example in the case of Abeton. I often see this), which distinguishes the artist and the video and captures attention.
Here's a camera setup that I really like: https://twitter.com/RichardDevine/status/1676377851468103681...
1. You don't need a computer to make a visualizer video 2. You (obviously) don't need Winamp and video/audio capturing software to make a video.
And these visualizations are ass. Yes, I'm allowed to say that.
I wish there's was cool built-in visualizer for iOS player, but here's how it usually looks these days:
I do hope we can get some type of filter for these things, or if not, HN should start charging a ton of money for these types of posts.
