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Hacking YC After Being Rejected - MELD, the GitHub for music
3 points by baldajan on Nov 15, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments
mymeld.com

We've been rejected from YC a couple times, but we think we have a hack to get in. Some background, we're the founders of SoundBrush, an iPad app that lets you draw music. To date, we have 300k+ downloads, with thousands of dollars in app sales; yet we realize this is not a billion dollar opportunity. From our experience in the industry, and from talking to our users we've identified that the true opportunity lies in the discovery and collaboration of creative content. This is how MELD was born.

MELD is the GitHub for music.

It allows musicians, producers, and fans to track and comment on all stages of music creation.

We would love your feedback on our MVP at mymeld.com



I actually applied to YC with a similar idea a year or two ago, but we didn't have a product yet. My team came entirely from art school, where we definitely see a market for an app like this. Maybe in the future even consider expanding to more than just music--you can include visual arts as well, like graphic design, film, even something like dance!

Best of luck!


maybe too much focus on the market opp in the spp and not the problem you are solving?


we generally have never look at market opp. SoundBrush started of as a fun project that ended up helping people create music that otherwise couldn't




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