We’re Zach and George — the creators of Rhythmm (https://getrhythmm.com).
We want to bring back the blog, a page that you can do whatever you want with. A place where you — either by yourself or with a few friends — can broadcast to an audience. With a few friends, it reads like a conversation.
A few months ago, we wanted to create a music blog together. We started to look at our options for creating a music blog, and realized that there weren’t any good ones. We didn’t want to create our own website, because people would have to remember to visit our domain and wouldn’t get notified when we posted. We looked at other music blogs on the internet, but it seemed like most of them were dying or have already died. We wanted a place where we could both share and bounce music off each other, and have our friends subscribe. And we couldn’t find an easy way to do this. We realized that this same issue arises not just in music, but in many other areas.
So we created Rhythmm — a place where you can create a Slack-like channel that people can subscribe to. Do whatever you want with it. Here are some ideas:
- daily tips on Ableton, Sketch or Python
- interviews with interesting people (you'll see a few examples of this below)
- music/art blogs
- movie of the day
We just launched a few weeks ago, but here are a few channels that we think you might like:
(Note: We’re mobile first, so while you can view these channels, you’ll get the full experience on our iOS/Android apps)
Hear a daily interview with a different YC Winter 2018 company and learn what they do: https://getrhythmm.com/channel/yc-company-daily/
Learn about a different Blockchain company every week: https://getrhythmm.com/channel/blockchat/
Get a Netflix streaming recommendation every day: https://getrhythmm.com/channel/watch-this-movie/
We’re super early, and we’re not going to pretend that we know exactly what our end goal is with this product. But we want to get it in people’s hands and see what they can come up with. Excited to hear what you guys think :)
Thanks!
I could see using Rhythmm to serve all the needs for me to simply 'say stuff', without all the other services and social marketing related work involved.
Note: Im making these observations in relation to an audio based project.
I see very little value in this tool, all this is going to become is another place to vault all your data behind proprietary protocol.
We're more similar to Slack, but one difference is that we have a few contributors broadcasting to a large audience. Slacks is also made up of closed communities, we focus more on housing all of these channels in one place.
Also, the site seems to be completely broken with ublock origin and default EasyList.
"So this is basically Slack but public URLs and not everyone can comment, right?" -- that's a good way of describing what our website is right now. We are mobile first -- in our app you can subscribe and follow these channels all in one place. We just whipped up a web landing page for each of the channels to give you guys a preview. We hope to have a fully functioning web client soon.
For subscribers, I want to be able to send them directly to a URL in their browser, not have them install anything. I recommend providing this sooner than later. Let users decide if they want to use the platform in a mobile or desktop release based on their needs and frequency of use of the website.
We plan on continuing to build better features to make channels more accessible (and a better experience) on web though.
As a person hesitating whether to make a mobile app for my own product, may I ask what was the reason for launching mobile first?
It seems to me that a web app is cheaper to develop, easier to test, collect feedback and iterate on (and possibly provides better blog writing experience) and thus would be an ideal first product.
Am I missing any strategic reasons in favour of launching mobile first?
So I thought I'd ask: is the product the .mov playing on the left side, or is that an example to help understand and ultimately get me to download the app, where the action is?
Is this accurate?
Best.
https://getrhythmm.com/channel/watch-this-movie/
https://getrhythmm.com/channel/blockchat/
https://getrhythmm.com/channel/yc-company-daily/
While I like the spin on blogging, could you explain how this product differs from something like https://spectrum.chat for example?
1. Telegram broadcast channels only allow 1 contributor. We think that there are a lot of interesting use cases that arise when having multiple contributors on one broadcast. 2. Telegram has absolutely no explore feature (other than searching and hoping for the best). 3. Telegram is a chat app first and foremost. It doesn't seem like they're going to spend any time building new features specifically for broadcasts. We have lot of really exciting features that we're currently working on that will continue to make our experience better different times of feedback.
Does that answer your question?