campfire 🫴🪵🔥

soundcloud has got to be the biggest missed opportunity in the intersection of music and the internet right
how do you fumble like that?

i've spoken to many who agree with this..

what would you love to see?

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producer × DJ. 🎧 🪩 
working on /campfire. 🫴🪵🔥
host of /downshift ⚙️ + /dww 🎧 +  /gtd 🛠️.
https://linktr.ee/0xdownshift

SoundCloud product managers totally botched the value proposition  and then management started making brutal cuts. All they had to do was charge like $0.99 an upload. Go to war with all the other distributors on price and a “one time only” fee to upload a track for life. Then do a marketing campaign like “Distribution on your terms. Every website and phone is your platform. Affordable and everywhere.” The ubiquity of SoundCloud embeddable players is their greatest asset and no one has done it better. You can put them and share them anywhere. And they have a rabid following in emerging hip hop. They didn’t embrace it. So sad.

btw @kia.eth were you around when SoundCloud had groups?

(basically subreddit-like communities with their own discussions, playlists, chats etc.)

it is! anything you would add or change, though?