alonetone turns 1 - follow the musicians you love

- posted by Sudara on 05 Jan 01:37 - 8 comments -

alonetone 1 year ago

This is what alonetone looked like 1 year ago.

Alonetone wasn't really "launched" in the hyped web 2.0 popular way. It just kinda slid out. irwinnormal was the first to play with it in December 2007. I emailed a few friends. I broke uploading, went on christmas vacation, came back. It was January 2008 when things first got rolling.

So, it's been a year! Over 4000 tracks uploaded by over 400 musicians. We've delivered over 230,000 tracks. Yes, A chunk of those went to the greedy spider invasion of mid 2008, but it's safe to say we're pumping out the tunes. We're just the right size. Not to big, not too small.

Thanks to everyone who signed up in 2008 and uploaded their tunes. A extra-HUGE thanks to everyone who suggested ideas, let me know when something broke, listened to my rants and answered my obscure and detailed questions - I'm looking at glu and ACL especially. Each piece of feedback helps us build what we humbly hope to be the most kicking-assiest place to host music at. Thanks guys.

Also, this site would be nothing without the genius of Samo Korosec aka smoofles who provided the original and the current alonetone design, consistently delivered top notch ideas and psd files, travelled 6 hours from Vienna on multiple occasions to help out, provided endless user interface handholding over IM, and in general gave me the best 'working together' experience I've ever had on a web app. Thanks Samo.

Oh, and I cooked up a new years treat last night! Try following a musician you like. Look for the 'follow' button on the top right of anyone's alonetone page. It looks like this:

alonetone will email you when that musician uploads a new track. You'll also see a list of tracks from the folks you follow on the alonetone home page. (Yes, we'll have a 'view all' button soon!)

Enjoy!

another cultural landslide said about 1 year ago

Suds, our lives actually changed when we signed on to alonetone last February (okay... so we didn't have much of a life at that time, but hell - it changed anyway); and we're honored to be a part of this place with fine folks who've found their way here. alonetone is - Home. And a thing of beauty, too. Kudos to you, sir. ;)

smoofles said about 1 year ago

Thanks sudara, it's been a real pleasure being part of alonetone � usually most projects are a "business" affair , but alonetone has the nice touch of "friends doing stuff for friends" and it's rewarding to see people enjoying it and you putting so much of yourself into it.

Here's to 2009 and more of the nice and steady growth with great people around!