My Startup: app turns music discovery into an online game - feedback?
www.thesixtyone.com what? thesixtyone, a web game that makes listening to new music a fun, adventurous experience. It's like a music scout role-playing game. how? Listeners are allocated virtual currency that they can spend promoting songs and are rewarded when their picks perform well. Top songs reach the homepage and are sorted into a radio playlist where listeners are a click away from discovering new sounds. status We're 3 months into our public beta, and, aside from balancing several "gameplay" mechanics, we've since introduced a couple of new features, including a more sophisticated genre system, show listings, artist photo reels, play history, and embeddable listener badges that syndicate your personal radio station across the web. about thesixtyone is myself and Sam Hsiung. I used to be a game developer (EA/Atari/Activision), but declined an offer to work on Xbox Live (my dream j
Why it failed
www.thesixtyone.com what? thesixtyone, a web game that makes listening to new music a fun, adventurous experience. It's like a music scout role-playing game. how? Listeners are allocated virtual currency that they can spend promoting songs and are rewarded when their picks perfor
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- JMiao
- Ended
- 2008
- Source
- hackernews