Like anything else, once you get good at programming a large part of your improvement comes in your ability to be more efficient. Can you get the same results with less code, fewer files, less queries to execute, etc. If you don’t, any inefficiencies really become magnified as a project scales and your hand gets [...]
Archive for the ‘Music Alerts’ Category
Wow – Grooveshark Could Revolutionize the Music Industry
In college, I downloaded music from our school’s network and used Winamp to play my music. I swore I’d never be one of those “fools” who actually paid for music and fell into the iTunes/iPod trap. Then I got an iPod for Christmas one year and realized I should start paying for my [...]
Music Alerts Facebook Application
Since Music-Alerts caught on last week, my partners and I debated exactly what to do with it. We pretty much concluded what I’d mentioned previously: try to grow the user base by keeping the core application simple, and strategically place affiliate links to buy/download items. Instead of whoring out the site [...]
Music Alerts is bLoWiNg uP!!!
OK, so I know I’ve been posting a lot about Music-Alerts. I was intending on writing a post today about how this has been a really up and down week. A lot of great stuff has happened, and a lot of frustrating stuff that makes me want to run full speed into a [...]
One-Hour Marketing Challenge a Success + New Music-Alerts Feature
I wasn’t really sure how my one hour of marketing Music Alerts would pan out. Turns out it went well…really well. The StumbleUpon traffic has been nice, but it was those 10 or so emails that I sent that got the viral bug started. Blogs like Emily Chang’s eHub, KillerStartups, and even a popular Italian [...]
My One-Hour Marketing Challenge
As I said back when I launched it, Music-Alerts is a site I’m really proud of. I think it’s a service that a lot of people could benefit from, and I think I did a pretty good job on the design and programming. That said, let’s be honest: the chances for it to actually make [...]
Quick Music Alerts Update
I’ve decided to hold off on promoting Music Alerts for a while for a few reasons. Primarily because I’m in the middle of ramping back up our client services after the launch of DI and I’m swamped, but also because I wanted to give it some time to be tested in the field. [...]
Music Alerts Fixes – More Speed and No Duplicates
I received a handful of great emails/comments about Music Alerts in the last 24 hours. I’ve also heard from a few hardcore fans who tried creating feeds of 200+ artists. I call them hardcore because mine consisted of about 25 . As with any really raw program the faults were exposed for those large [...]
Introducing Music-Alerts.com – Never Miss an Album Release
Last Friday afternoon I realized that I almost missed the album release of one of my favorite bands. I just happened to visit their website out of boredom and notice they had already released a few singles and were about to release a new album. I don’t have my pulse in the [...]
