Mad_Cyril You would need upwards of 80k to cover the development and design fees and thats before hosting and promotion, and assuming you can get your first iteration out the door in under a year.
I would also guess that whet the artist gets after an ‘online sale’ might be down to their contract, so even though you drop your fee, the label might just hoover up more of the cut and still give the artist fuck all???
Amps no idea, but unless you’re able to everything yourself, it’s likely going to be cost prohibitive anyways. let’s say you could do it cheap for a few hundred dollars, you’d have to shift so many units to just break even, i can’t imagine it’s worth the hassle.
maybe if you could set up a collective where you have several good artists, a mastering engineer, maybe a couple of people into graphics/video/etc. and you’re all willing to work for the greater good, it could be viable. maybe.
Last call for questions related to Beatport Link today then I’m gonna put together the answers/live and tell you guys a few days in advance when it’ll be 
303abuser As a bit of a walking one stop designer type (jack of all, master of non), I reckon I could box loads of it off myself bar the actual music / mastering / audio side of things. Dunno the costs on mastering or such things… how many units to be in profit you reckon? Thousand? Five thousand? Ten thousand?
Mad_Cyril I think getting a good UI that you are happy with, that tests well regards debugging and then with audiences for usability, plus a strong database / storage / server, you are looking at employing at least one full time developer / coder and one full time designer for a year… Please don’t find a better way of doing it, you’ll have me out of a job! 
303abuser maybe if you could set up a collective where you have several good artists, a mastering engineer, maybe a couple of people into graphics/video/etc. and you’re all willing to work for the greater good, it could be viable. maybe.
You just described a record label 
mono-stereo yeah, but my though is more a collective that’s transparent vs a hierarchical structure. probably semantics, definitely a pipe dream.
303abuser I was being facetious, I get what you mean.
mono-stereo honestly, i didn’t realize i did a good job of describing a label. 
It’s a tricky one, but my mindset is still the DJ being the selector , not an algorithm or glorified duke box . Having every track available means erodes the point of the DJ. Just have a service that takes requests and creates a mix based on popularity .
As a DJ you have X amount of money available to spend and it’s your taste to select the best tracks to fit your style . I can understand Vinyl purists as this takes this concept even further , with sets limited to the physical ability of carrying tunes to a gig or availability of tracks .
All these services that basically value music a fraction of its overall worth and homogenize the art of music sourcing make me sick to my stomach, and probably drive the "“Instagram DJ” culture so many of us deride .
So as you can tell not a fan of the concept . Call me a Luddite but that’s moi
It’s like what DJ Harvey said. DJs showing up to gigs with thousands upon thousands of tunes but still manage to play the same tracks as everyone else. Whereas he can go on tour with a crate of 100 records and make it work.
jonattonyeah it’s having the balls and the confidence with those 100 tunes, because you’ve spent countless hours researching/seeing how they work on a dance floor / making sure they fit in with what you want to convey .
Not everyone’s going to like them , but the people you want to appeal to will . Everyone one else go and listen to the latest Anjunadeep podcast
IndustryStandard Everyone one else go and listen to the latest Anjunadeep podcast
I don’t like how you’ve targeted Si Alistair and MC here.
