Comments on: Grooveshark: What’s Feeding the Frenzy?

By: Jame Bushovisky

Jame Bushovisky — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 06:55:03 +0000

He’s just so lovely!

By: Blogger Den

Blogger Den — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:16:12 +0000

This is a great inside-look at the inner workings of Grooveshark. This site is a staple to my every day life, if I’m on my computer I’ve got Grooveshark running with a great tracklist at all times.

By: colin brakewell

colin brakewell — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:46:23 +0000

Hi there. I just needed to let you know that some elements of your web site are hard to comprehend for me, as I’m color blind. I suffer from tritanopia, however there are other sorts of color blindness which will also experience issues. I will read the largest part of the webpage OK, and those areas I have difficulties with I am able to understand by using a special browser. Neverthless, it’d be cool if you could consider us color-blind folk when undertaking your next web site design. Cheers.

By: Tuhin Kumar

Tuhin Kumar — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:56:38 +0000

Indeed a great app. I have been using it for my music. I think it might just replace Last.fm for my subscription as well. :) Also I love the Yellow on their site. I know that is odd but still!

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Things I Found Interesting Around February 16th | Chris Coyier — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:46:19 +0000

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By: mike

mike — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:26:10 +0000

Looks like a interesting site, ill check back when they drop the flash nonsense.

By: Adelle

Adelle — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:24:25 +0000

Great insights Dan, really refreshing interview with Grooveshark. I bought the VIP access a couple months back and it’s beautiful.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:12:41 +0000

This is such a cool post, offering insight into a really great web company. Very interesting and inspiring!

By: Cory Mathews

Cory Mathews — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:07:38 +0000

Personally I love grooveshark. I signed up for the vip last august and have not looked back. I listen to it all day everyday and I don’t know how I was ever able to work without it.

I really like to see that they take care of the bands as well as their users. It shows how bands will be able to promote their music in the future. I can see the smaller bands using the stats from grooveshark to build their fanbase, it would help them determine where to play concerts ect.

By: Chris Brauckmuller

Chris Brauckmuller — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:46:57 +0000

Dan,

Great article, thoroughly covered the topic. However, I can’t help but disagree with the assessment that:

“People were downloading music through file sharing networks for free, but their magic question was “why?”. The answer wasn’t “because it’s free”.”

People most definitely use file sharing networks like LimeWire or torrent because they’re free. If you had to pay to use The Pirate Bay or Limewire but it still contained the same content, its user base would be a tiny fraction of what it is now.

As you mentioned, Grooveshark’s success stems from the fact that it does make music content more accessible. Though Grooveshark’s depth of content might make some difference, the kicker is that Grooveshark is financially accessible (i.e. free). I’d love to see what percent of their user base has opted for the paid VIP version. Like a lot of other really compelling social media interfaces, I believe that monetizing Grooveshark is going to remain a huge challenge.

By: Dan Denney

Dan Denney — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:29:26 +0000

Thank you Ethan! I was lucky enough to get a development copy and I love it. It will probably be hitting the Jailbroken app store next week. The Palm Pre version should be available next week as well.

By: Matthew Ellis

Matthew Ellis — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:22:29 +0000

I agree – it’s an awesome service and I love the UI. Simple, elegent and robust – I think it’ll fare well against competitors.

By: Ethan

Ethan — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:04:05 +0000

Great article Dan! I really enjoy Grooveshark—I didn’t know they had an iPhone app, though!

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By: Joshua Smibert

Joshua Smibert — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:58:50 +0000

Especially interesting how they make money. Fantastic insight. I’m wondering how they are going to compete for marketshare with Last.FM & Pandora. A great service though…. need to use it more!