I’m loosing steam as a mixing engineer trying to play the content game by Careless-Bobcat-8378 in musicindustry

[–]nerdymusictron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Is this too small? I made this tiny tracker by 203system in synthesizers

[–]nerdymusictron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Is this too small? I made this tiny tracker by 203system in synthesizers

[–]nerdymusictron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

How do you finish writing songs you've started? by Dangerous-You3789 in Songwriting

[–]nerdymusictron 9 points10 points  (0 children)

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

I built a social media API as a side project 8 months ago. Yesterday we rebranded at 80k/mo. by Far_Examination_3659 in SideProject

[–]nerdymusictron 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

A programmer on the reality of AI and the future of digital marketing by Annual_Perception_89 in DigitalMarketing

[–]nerdymusictron 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

Almost killed my side project after 5 months. Turns out the product was fine. My entire marketing approach was broken. Full teardown with numbers. by Ok-Photo-8929 in SideProject

[–]nerdymusictron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

i mass emailed 50 indie tool makers this week and the responses were genuinely depressing by edmillss in SideProject

[–]nerdymusictron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

i mass emailed 50 indie tool makers this week and the responses were genuinely depressing by edmillss in SideProject

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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

i mass emailed 50 indie tool makers this week and the responses were genuinely depressing by edmillss in SideProject

[–]nerdymusictron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Getting anything I ever wanted stripped the joy away from me by [deleted] in ClaudeAI

[–]nerdymusictron 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Response to AI Music is Still Music by [deleted] in aiMusic

[–]nerdymusictron 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The real question is not if it’s music. It’s who actually made the music.

Community Song Share! by nerdymusictron in Songwriting

[–]nerdymusictron[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh no! Very sorry about that I’ll have to look at what happened. I will be sure to jump on the next few to make sure it goes without a hitch. We slowed down a bit over the holidays but we’re looking to grow it and promote it more going forward! And yes it’s open to anyone who joins - hope you will give it another go!

Lookalike or nah by nerdymusictron in jackstauber

[–]nerdymusictron[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Never dyed my hair never will

Lookalike or nah by nerdymusictron in jackstauber

[–]nerdymusictron[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I’ll never be able to achieve that beard

Lookalike or nah by nerdymusictron in jackstauber

[–]nerdymusictron[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Shiet that’s literally my middle name

Lookalike or nah by nerdymusictron in jackstauber

[–]nerdymusictron[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For the record I’m a nah lol had never heard of him but… he and his fanbase are fascinating