As a developer, I understand the business and UX need for it, but it still manages to turn me away from really interesting services. It looks like you're looking to improve on this pain-point, so I'll definitely check this out later. :)
I'd also love it if the About page was on your own site as well. Linking to the Facebook app page feels like you were a little rushed.
We've gotten the same feedback from several people, and we know it's a priority. Artists and labels, in particular, have asked for non-Facebook login methods. It's on its way, promise. We just haven't quite made it there yet.
Great UI on the homepage though! Keep up the good work.
Developers: if you care about privacy-conscious users, you may want to fix that.
Regarding Facebook, we do require Facebook to login (as mentioned elsewhere, we're going to add other ways to log in soon) and we require the Facebook SDK for some of our social stuff. That said, we should handle this better - we shouldn't get stuck in a permanent loading loop!
It's actually the main reason why I stopped using SocialCam & Viddy. I couldn't trust the service. "Normals" probably don't have the same problem with it, but I personally hate it.
(As a side-note, I have no problem posting great songs I listen to on Hype Machine to Facebook & Twitter. I just want to be in control of what is posted.)
We definitely understand that some of our users prefer not to use the social sharing features of our app ; hence we added the capability to turn those off, either temporarily with the use of the "social-sharing" switch at the top of the interface --or-- permanently via the preference dialog that you can find in the top left menu.
My mental model of sharing (and I'd bet it's shared by many others as well) is that there needs to be an explicit "sharing action" taken. I should know exactly what happens when I do something - I don't on your site. As a result, I never get to the "aha" moment because I'm afraid to click on anything.
We’ve started with a service similar to Pinterest -- A simple and beautiful way to discover, collect and share music with friends.
It’s a big project. We’re at the very beginning and we’d love your feedback.
(FYI, you can only sign up with Facebook right now... We know, we know... alternative ways of signing in are coming, along with a mobile version)
You are using Youtube, so you're limited by what's on Youtube, and various other strings attached.
Anyway, I think the site is a lot of fun, rock on! =)
Just as an aside: its not clear in the Uex but you can also search Soundcloud.
Now what I like: the UI is great.
Let me dig deeper and share with you my experience with wavo. Like I said I never sign in but every week I receive an e-mail from them. In that e-mail I have links to a playlist. The playlist is what’s popular at the moment on wavo.
This is the single feature that I love because I am able to discover new artists and new songs. Some songs are mainstream but the vast majority is not.
Of course I would love to tell you that there are more features on wavo but I simply don’t bother to sign in.
Right now Facebook makes life easy in certain ways and is obviously an effective way to acquire users but we're getting to the point where we've got most of the basic user experience figured out so a secondary way of signing in is moving up in our priority list. Really glad you like the emails and hope we can get you on-boarded into the full experience soon.
UI is a little confusing and could be overwhelming for alot of folks.
However...This is a nice idea here. I have found several really great songs I had never heard of before in minutes! Perfect for people at work wanting to find new tunes.
What happens if a video that is on the popular list is deleted at some point by the source?
And yeah, when we have the username/password pair sign-up, we'll simply have an option in the app preferences that will allow the user to additionally connect their facebook account if they like. If not - no problem.
To answer your question here: we use your email to send you notifications of likes/comments/follows as well as three emails a week of trending music on wavo. Eventually this email will be personalized to you. As for why it's not clear up front - we made a conscious effort to keep the landing page as clean as possible. Ideally, our explanation should be part of the facebook connect dialog, but that's not actually possible. Probably when we add multiple signin options, we'll add more explanatory text there.
Great app. Awesome UI.
Two things: 1 - Typo I noticed straight away: "Refer someone to wavo and increate your reach by +20." increate --> increase. 2 - On that note, how DO i refer someone? As in, how can the application know that it was I who referred them?
Thanks for pointing out the typo! That's probably been kicking around there for awhile now. :-)
Wavo detects a referral by checking for referral tokens in the url's querystring. When you share a song, share a playlist, etc, from within the app itself (with one of the share buttons, for example), Wavo crafts a url with this referral token. When a user follows that url and signs up, that referral is credited to you. Obviously, this doesn't catch everything (if you simply copy the url from the browser bar and share it with a friend, you won't get reach points), but it gets us part of the way there.
You can even listen to "lisp programming" ;-) https://wavo.me/search/yt/lisp%20programming
The right scroll arrow is blocked by the page scroll bar: http://i.imgur.com/YfVUf.png
It is very difficult/frustrating to click on that arrow.
do you have a bug-report system or anything set up? after clicking on a chart, under the div "influencers" the tooltip isn't displaying properly. (background of the tooltip might be transparent or something, I'll look into it more to figure out exactly what the problem is)
Otherwise, cool site. I'm actually working on a company that might be an interesting partnership for you. my email should be on my profile if you are interested.
