Solfej

The Best New Way To Learn Music Theory

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February 23, 2020 ProductHunt Launch!

Just launched our microsite (chord search) on product hunt!

Learned a ton of stuff from my previous two launches on ProductHunt.

Crossing my fingers that this one will make it to the top 3. I was pretty close last time!

check it out here:https://www.producthunt.com/posts/chord-search-by-solfej

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February 21, 2020 App Store Approval For Launch!

After two sessions of back and forth with the apple app store Solfej is finally available on the app store!

I haven't started my marketing efforts yet, but I'm making this announcement because of how excited I am.

Check it out here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/solfej-ear-trainer-theory/id1487555711

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February 8, 2020 Product Hunt Launch!

Just launched our microsite (scale search) on product hunt!

Went into this launched with a lot of learnings from past product hunt launches in mind.

Crossing my fingers that it does better than my previous launches :)

check it out here: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/scale-search-by-solfej

January 30, 2020 Front Page Of Hacker News!

Our blog post featuring @garretthenrym of Album Daily just hit the front page of Hacker News!

As a long time read of Hacker News this is unbelievable to me!

Check out the post on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22194107

Would love to know your thoughts!

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    Pretty cool for me as well! Thanks for letting me be a part of your blog :)

January 10, 2020 Created 5000+ dynamic content pages!

With the help of Gatsby and a 3 million line slong JSON file (write up on this will be coming soon!) that I've spent the last week making, we've just launched the chord search microsite on Solfej!

This microsite let's you search through every single chord that you can think of.

Check it out here:

https://www.solfej.io/chords

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December 27, 2019 1000+ Sign Ups! 🥳

Holy crap! I woke up today and checked my phone, and could not believe my eyes!

1033 people have signed up for Solfej (https://www.solfej.io/)!

It feels extremely rewarding to know that something that was just an idea a couple of months ago is now in the hands of people helping them learn music theory.

I’ll take another five minutes to be in awe and then back to work. Next stop is 10k 💪🏽

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    Congrats ! It's a great idea ! Even after 15 years I still struggle with music theory.
    small feedback, you should have built it on Web ! I don't see the point for having specific mobile development iOS and Android separatly ;)

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      Thank you! Music theory is a tough nut to crack!

      It is a web app :)

      I made it with React + Capacitor. I’m just releasing the versions one at a time!

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        Sweet, great choice ! Waiting for the Web/Android version of it. Good luck with the launch

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    Congrats. It is definitely a great product that many people need it.

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December 26, 2019 Ranking #1 in Google search (for Solfej)

Solfej is the first result when you search for the keyword “solfej”!!

This may not seem like a big achievement, but as a newbie with SEO it means a lot.

The funny thing is I thought I knew about SEO, but turns out I didn’t even know what a backlink was before I started Solfej.

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    Great work 😛

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    Congrats, and it actually is important - often people just type the name instead of URL.

    It's sad to see when new entrepreneurs think that picking a single English word as a name is a good idea, after they've found some free marginal domain for it. Then they wonder why they rank on page 72 of the search results. After 2 years of SEO when they reach page 1, they get slapped with Cease and Desist letter from trademark holder and need to start from the beginning.

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    Congrats. I will have a tougher time with Hashr, being also a verse of the Quran, reaching the #1 on Google for my own branded domain may be very tricky!

    Kudos to you though!

December 6, 2019 550+ Beta Sign Ups!!!

Wow!

It's insane how something that was just an idea couple of months now has almost 600 people signed up to use it!

It's incredibly humbling and terrifying at the same time.

I'm excited to see where Solfej goes in the next year.

My dream is to make this my full time gig.

On that note, would anybody be interested in reading how I achieved getting beta users? I'm thinking about making a blogpost outlining everything I did.

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December 4, 2019 Just Launched Solfej Version 1.3.0 🎉!

1.3.0 is officially out and in the wild now!

In this new version I've added

  • Interactive music theory lesson examples (audible examples!)
  • Interactive piano roll to music theory lessons
  • Push notifications
  • Onboarding screens
  • A million bug fixes :)

See the full details here: https://www.solfej.io/blog/what's-new-in-solfej-v-1.3

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December 3, 2019 Added Blog Section + First Blogpost!

I spent the last two days adding a blogging system to solfej.io.

This blog is to support my content marketing strategy as well as update posts for the app!

I'm so excited to share my writing with people.

Writing has always been a weak point for me.

So to share a piece of my writing is like sharing my first apple pie with the neighborhood (horrible analogy haha)

Here's the blog post: https://www.solfej.io/blog/what's-new-in-solfej-v-1.3

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    Sweet! Congrats man. Like Stephen King says, there are two things you need to do to write better: read a lot and write a lot, there's no workaround to that.

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      That's a great way to put it. Thank you!

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I started Solfej to help demystify music theory for musicians (like myself). Solfej breaks down complex musical subjects into digestible chunks.