Ground Signal uses social analytics and AI to help suppliers in the alcohol industry optimize sales. Our platform processes billions of records and delivers insights through a robust SaaS product used by top-tier analysts and global brands.
We're a fully remote team of 20+ distributed across the US. We care about capability over titles, value outcomes over process, and keep ego to a minimum. We collaborate tightly, move fast, and meet up in person a few times a year to recharge and plan together.
We are currently recruiting for the following positions. We are not able to sponsor at this time.
I'm not trying to tell you how to market your music, you do you, but with services like Tune Core, Distro Kid, etc that allow you to submit your music to every single music service in existence with one click, why wouldn't you just put your music everywhere? You may be surprised at just how big of a community there is for your niche genre on Spotify and elsewhere!
Anyways, I agree that the Spotify requirement is artificially limiting, especially if this is targeting up and coming artists. They should probably support all of the biggies (Spotify, Apple Music, Youtube, etc) as well as indies like Sound Cloud, Band Camp, etc.
I've pondered on and off about distrokid (or the like), and thankfully one of my peers has done just that. Mind you, he is more established and "successful" (as in, gets more paying gigs, more audience, ...). So I've talked to him about it. During the past half year, he's "earned" 4€ from Spotify (in other words, one song made the cut of 1k listens over a year), and 180€ from Bandcamp.
I see Distrokid as helpful marketing investment for discovery, so I was still inclined to burn some money (one teaching session will likely cover my loss, so whatever), but then he went on how he put a video of a performance of a published song of his (published via Distrokid) on YT - et voila - he's got challenged by Distrokid for it. Uh, yeah. I understand you gotta relinquish rights to let DK do their thing, but that's the sort of headache I wouldn't ever want. Maybe he was doing something wrong, of course, but I'll likely fall into the same trap. More reading required ...
I'll keep in touch with him about it, maybe the discovery on spotify led to the BC throughput, but we'll have to dig deeper. There's a lot of us small artists in different stages of our development (say, performance, entertainment, composition wise), I'd love to exchange experiences on what works and what doesn't for the ailing musician. There's platforms which contains a lot of us, but everybody seems to be struggling and there seems to be a strong sense of competition among many of my peers, so it's hard to get unfiltered (subjective) truths there. And the internet is filled with horror stories as well as "from dishwasher to millionaire" survivorship biased fairy tales. Oooph.
Ha ha, yeah I hear you. Don't get me wrong, I'm certainly not marketing my music to make money (because I know there won't be any LOL). I do it because I spend hundreds of hours writing, producing, mixing, and mastering my music, and if I spend that much time on it, then damnit I want someone other than me to hear it! :)
If you have any presence on Sound Cloud, then definitely check out Repost Exchange. It's a peer to peer site where fellow artists like and repost each other's work. It's great for discovery.
One bit of feedback after submitting a track: The list of genres to select from is too course-grained IMHO. There's a gazillion sub-genres of electronic dance music for example, but "Electronic" was as close as I could get. Genres like metal have the same issue. It doesn't matter so much now given the current UX, but if you consider others' suggestions on adding genre/sub-genre specific lists (which I agree with 100%), then I think you'll want to allow people to get as fine-grained as they want to (sub-genre lists could all bubble up to a parent genre list, and all of the steps in between). Submit Hub does this very well, if you're looking for examples/inspiration.
Great advice. I’ve used submit hub for many years, it is a great product.
The issue with have with genre is you really can have any genre, and new ones are being made up all the time. We won’t be able to have competitive lists for all of these so decided to approach it from as few genres as possible, then will Implement a tagging system that an artist can write anything in. We will then offer search by tag so they can be found.
It’s a slow process as this is a part time project but hopefully we will get there!
It's been a while since I've done any Ruby/Rails development, but just curious why they chose to use a Debian/Ubuntu based image in the default Dockerfile instead of an Alpine based image?
Alpine has some razor edges in it. I would never default to it. Always test your app thoroughly. musl doesn't implement everything that glibc does and some of the differences can cause big problems. This is not purely theoretical. I once spent a week deugging a database corruption issue that happened because of a difference in musl's UTF-8 handling.
Use Alpine liberally for local images if you like, but don't use it for production.
"Use Alpine liberally for local images if you like, but don't use it for production."
We take the exact opposite approach: default to Alpine based images, only use another base OS if Alpine doesn't work for some reason. The majority of our underlying code base isn't C-based, so maybe that's why Alpine has been successful for us, but as always, everyone's situation is different and YMMV.
The dockerfile is optimized for “works for the most number of people out of the box”. There was debate over using the ruby v ruby-slim image. Ultimately it was decided to go with the larger image to maximize compatibility.
That said, keep using Alpine! There’s no reason for folks to stop doing what they’re already doing if it’s working for them.
The new dockerfile is meant more for people who are just getting started that aren’t familiar with Docker or Linux.
I assume because Debian/Ubuntu works more likely out of the box. I tried to use Alpine but ran into various issues in our sad big corporate setup. Additionally, ruby provides base docker images in these too.
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Ground Signal uses social analytics and AI to help suppliers in the alcohol industry optimize sales. Our platform processes billions of records and delivers insights through a robust SaaS product used by top-tier analysts and global brands.
We're a fully remote team of 20+ distributed across the US. We care about capability over titles, value outcomes over process, and keep ego to a minimum. We collaborate tightly, move fast, and meet up in person a few times a year to recharge and plan together.
We are currently recruiting for the following positions. We are not able to sponsor at this time.
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