SameTunes
Share music, discover new tunes, and connect with others!
After trying several different organic growth methods, our novel solution to solving the need gap for a place for listeners to easily share their music, no matter their streaming service, passed 10K users! The most successful method for us was posting in social groups (Ex: Facebook Groups) where comparing music with others would go viral. Additionally, partnering with influencers proved very successful at getting our name out there.
After a grueling 24 hours of managing our launch, our team managed to secure a place as the 5th product of the day. We hit peaks as high as third. An additional challenge was we launched alongside Facebook's Reels which took #1. So in our hearts, we are number #4. Very interesting experience that got us a lot of feedback.
After a summer of working hard on a new design and new features we launched version two of the SameTunes Platform. This version was much faster, more intuitive, and feature-packed. It also laid the foundation for additional features in the future. Especially social ones!
At the start of the summer, my partner and I gathered a team of five additional students to help us build out SameTunes LLC. We hired additional developers, a designer, and a head of PR. As part of the Create-X program, we began working daily on the idea as our fulltime job.
SameTunes was accepted into the Georgia Tech Create-X Startup Launch Program. The program lasts for the entire summer and includes a small amount of funding. This is also when my co-founder and I decide we will work on the idea full time over the summer.
In an attempt to validate the idea and get into the Create-X Accelerator program at Georgia Tech my partner and I released the first MVP version of the platform. It featured mainly comparisons and a lucky UI. However, it proved the concept and the fun users could have with the concept
Came up with the idea while on winter break from college. I had always to make a business that used the Spotify API and found myself constantly exhausted by having to explain my music tastes to people. I often felt like I was being judged or had too profile the other person. So I thoughts there had to be a better way!
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How did you partner with influencers? What did you offer them?
Two main ways. The first and most obvious is just money. We partnered (paid) with several smaller-scale TikTok influencers to run several promotions and competitions for us. The other not so obvious way was by offering some of our artist-only services for free.