Currently working on Pulse (www.pulseapp.co). We're building an anonymous communication platform for enterprises and organizations. Our goal and vision is to help improve company culture through means of open communication and internal transparency.
Just recently wrapped up development on the initial version of our mobile application (iOS and Android) and are testing it out in an open beta. Would love people's feedback/thoughts! :)
Hi everyone, one of the co-founders of Pulse here. We created Pulse in order to change the way we communicate at work. We built it out of frustrations we had as employees at our previous jobs where we didn't feel like we had the right platform to openly speak out. You can read more about what and why we're doing at our blog below and happy to answer any questions!
I would love to, any suggestion on how to do this? Problem is, the genre field provided by Soundcloud is not consistent (they can pretty much write whatever they want for the genre). Maybe users can tag songs with the subgenre they think that fits?
thedrop.club is more community focused (user submission, comments, upvotes, etc) while this is more on just pure aggregation. You can optionally submit tracks but its a more automated way and doesn't require people to sign up for there to be content.
I don't want to say my idea is 100% unique but I did start this back in the fall initially, before thedrop.club launched. I will say that the drop.club did inspire me to polish, finish and actually try and launch it.
Thanks! Started this originally back in the fall of last year some time. Completely threw away all the front end code of that and picked up the project again maybe ~1.5 months ago? Been mostly weekends and some weekday nights. And thanks for reporting the issue, I'll look into it.
Yes! I totally agree with your point of SC music discovery. I couldn't find a workflow that fit/worked. Thanks for checking it out.
And in regards to the FB name, there should be a way. If you go under settings (gear icon) in the upper right, it should lead to a drop down where you can go to your settings and change your username. Let me know if this doesn't work for some reason.
Thanks checking it out and for your comments! So I definitely don't see this as really replacing Soundclound (also considering that only SC songs are supported ATM so its a subset of whats available on SC). Like you said lots of people out there use SC and have a nice stream of music based on the artists/labels/whatever they follow. This is more for aimmed at discovery and solve a pain point that I had and I don't think the trending sections for EDM in SC is that good.
While I normally use the usual SC/Spotify to listen to things I already know about, there wasn't a good way for me of finding new and perhaps lesser known remixes/artists/tracks. I normally checked a number of blogs manually and that became a hassle. Especially when you can't "play through" the songs on a blog in sequential order because it stops after each song. So I'm aggregating the postings from a number of blogs and other sources together so I can just check one source, play the newest songs, and save the ones I like.
I think you hit the spot when you said broaden [your] horizon, thats definitely one of the key points. The goal is that the feed in The Daily Drop is more varied than your personal SC stream so hopefully you find some new artists/tracks to follow/favorite. And you're also right, I myself also run into songs I just don't like and that I just skip. When building it I tried to add the features that I wanted and what it ended up being was a different features from services that I liked but didn't have in one app (aggregation from Hypem, queue/history from Spotify, shuffle from Spotify/SC, remixes found on SC vs 'mainstream' on Spotify, etc.).
The social and control components are definitely coming in the future when I have the time that will hopefully make it a more compelling product. As well as other genre within the music. (I'm a big hip hop fan too!)
Just recently wrapped up development on the initial version of our mobile application (iOS and Android) and are testing it out in an open beta. Would love people's feedback/thoughts! :)