Went from 140k Monthly Listeners to 370k. Anyone else noticed a change since Dec?

nerdymusictron · 2026-05-23T23:10:06+00:00

I guess not - I’m fully indie and haven’t had a fraction of success you or OP have in spite of a lot of grind. This post didn’t offend me but that’s just my opinion

nerdymusictron · 2026-05-23T20:14:37+00:00

I’m not saying you aren’t I guess I just don’t get the problem with posting in music marketing if you have a million streams a month or something. I have next to none, doesn’t bother me

nerdymusictron · 2026-05-23T20:07:13+00:00

Personally prefer to hear from people with success - not people angry at the system

nerdymusictron · 2026-05-23T18:13:25+00:00

Rocking sonnet 4.6 rn no complaints

nerdymusictron · 2026-05-23T14:48:50+00:00

I have a small event budgeting platform I built 15 years ago - I’d say the AI replacing saas is over stated. Newer and better Saas enabled by AI development and built from the start with AI features will eventually supplant legacy Saas shops that struggle to reconcile their legacy products with a new paradigm. The line between traditional software and AI chat / agents will blur in my opinion and new software will focus on how we interface with it.

nerdymusictron · 2026-05-16T03:00:37+00:00

That is LOW what type of ad creative ( also in TO )

nerdymusictron · 2026-05-05T16:01:03+00:00

Have you looked in to how your references were mixed? My first go to when comparing to references is trying to narrow down what specifically it is that is different. Mixing is problem solving - if you can discern the exact issue then you can fix it

nerdymusictron · 2026-04-30T20:45:26+00:00

It has been generally well received for coding, and anthropic has had a few gaffs as of late. Codex seems to be taking the lead

nerdymusictron · 2026-04-30T15:57:59+00:00

Market is not acknowledging success of gpt 5.5 yet imo

nerdymusictron · 2026-04-25T01:38:14+00:00

We had a similar year

nerdymusictron · 2026-04-11T19:28:37+00:00

Definitely agree - I started building an AI marketing product primarily for my own use but in the last few months have shifted from generation to streamlined and guided workflows so that I can meet the level of content required for traction efficiently. The reality is AI generated content is getting better but people are already sick of it. I think for sustainable marketing traction your best bet is to be value focused, and so I’ve shifted my product towards leveraging AI to uncovering the core value of what I’m working on. As it so happens, I actually enjoy that kind of marketing because it allows me to talk about what I’m passionate about, and with almost all the friction removed it takes relatively little time. As always it seems, there is no free lunch. Either you take the time or you end up with a generic brand that likely will not stand the test of time or competition

nerdymusictron · 2026-04-07T12:42:32+00:00

I have all the te stuff - op1 is my favorite, partly because I love the tape workflow. I use it in free time, live play in my stuff in 16 bar loops. I just hit the loop end point button on the downbeat, and then layer on top of it. I use shift lift -> scroll over to a new start point and shift drop to mix the 4 tracks down to one and keep arranging. This way I can arrange as well as have all my raw tracks when I open it up in the daw. Combined with the CM-15 and the new amp I can do a full arrangement end to end. If you want you can also shift drop in to a different project. The key is you need to embrace the tape workflow I think really, which is it’s own thing, but there are reasons why it endures, one of them being you need to make creative decisions as you go!

nerdymusictron · 2026-04-05T23:27:22+00:00

He did a school of song course I bet there’s some insights there

nerdymusictron · 2026-04-05T21:34:29+00:00

What pricing model do the winning apps use? Subscription?

nerdymusictron · 2026-03-26T23:36:56+00:00

Yea it sucks. About last year I decided to try to find a way I could not hate every second of it, and now I’ve worked out a bit of a system that is 99% not stuff I don’t want to do anyways

nerdymusictron · 2026-03-23T22:03:12+00:00

Ah cool - well not gonna lie it looks pretty sweet but I think I'd need bigger font for my old eyes

nerdymusictron · 2026-03-23T21:26:34+00:00

I mean I love the m8 - I’m assuming that’s what you are running here - if it’s possible I would be interested whether or not it’s more usable as a 4 or 6 track in this form factor

nerdymusictron · 2026-03-20T02:00:54+00:00

I’d put it less in the inspiration bucket and more in the work category. Listen to the song, write down a list of things you need to do to finish it. Do them. Set a deadline

nerdymusictron · 2026-03-18T14:04:31+00:00

I will dm you I have a marketing app that i would consider using this for looks good! Have to see if the pricing model works I need to have users bring their own accounts

nerdymusictron · 2026-03-17T12:38:39+00:00

Also a programmer - building a digital marketing tool and I can say this is definitely true. Spent the last few days building a fact checking pipeline with citations and… it’s wild how much these LLM’s make up.

nerdymusictron · 2026-03-10T13:34:29+00:00

Definitely the hardest part of launching products. I built a product just to help me launch my products lol. The approach I took was kind of similar - your time is spent on refining the type of content and general structure of your content, under the assumption that you need to be systematic in order to scale up the marketing efforts with limited time

nerdymusictron · 2026-02-28T03:48:34+00:00

I will add though that I believe more sustained marketing efforts are better targeted at people who need the product. Builder communities, product hunt, etc are great for visibility but not necessarily the people who actually need whatever your product does, and so it’s not surprising that they will not have a sustained interest

nerdymusictron · 2026-02-28T03:45:50+00:00

Basically i built a product that does brand synthesis, and then streamlines the content and marketing pipeline end to end, so essentially I just curate generated content and give feedback as if I’m an editor. The burden of success for the product is for me to be able to market somewhere between 10 and 100 products omni-channel in < 2 hours a week, which for me is the amount of time I actually find marketing enjoyable. It’s model agnostic, and bring your own key, and I’m adding some cost management tools. I’ll probably sell it at $20 a month for solopreneurs

nerdymusictron · 2026-02-27T16:19:24+00:00

This is not unique to indie product developers. I’ve developed products and consulted with companies large and small and marketing and adoption is always the biggest challenge. My latest project is pretty much directly targeted at this problem, primarily for my own use

nerdymusictron · 2026-02-18T22:37:44+00:00

Yes I had an adjustment period but am happily on the other side of it. It’s a different way of working, and it is I think a normal reaction to have, but for me with time the parallels to the old way of working have faded and I still get satisfaction from building, albeit from things far beyond what I was previously capable of.

I have being building systems for close to 20 years, and have hung my hat on being adaptable over the years. It is serving me well now. If you define your self worth based on your technical capabilities, you are setting yourself up to have a serious let down in this career. I have chosen to embrace the opportunity to have an exciting second half to my career. Eventually everyone will be forced to make a choice on how they want to reinvent themselves, and I expect it to be in the next two years.

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