Don’t forget that while CBS or Yahoo! may own the code, they don’t own what’s in your head. So, hats off to you! I’m sorry it took me 10 years to say it, but THANK YOU! And best of luck in your careers! I know you don’t create an app like LC without a lot of blood, sweat, tears AND creative thought. Once the corporate marketers figure out who their target audience really is, I’m sure your baby will be back online, in one form or another. Jeff & Todd – you created an incredible application. I really think the same sort of thing is happening now with LC. So a few years later, when Anders joined Microsoft and architected an extremely similar product called “.NET”, it took the development world by storm, and the rest is programming history. They targeted the product to developers who were currently using VB, when really they should have been targeting the C++ market, and it never really took off. Problem was, it was never marketed correctly. When he was working for Borland, he architected a wonderful little development environment called Delphi. Jeff, you probably know who he is, but non-developers may not. How can I save my data? How can they just drop us? Oh, crap! What am I going to do now? Jeff Boulter and Todd Beaupre, huh? Gee, I owe them a thank you! And suddenly I’m in a panic I’m all over the boards. That is, until a few weeks ago when I found out LC was being decommissioned.
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I was just one of the many, silent, happy, anonymous listeners who quietly enjoyed that wonderful little feature that came free with my DSL subscription. But until a few weeks ago, I had no idea who you were. The AI underneath your app is mind-boggling the accuracy, scary. So, until the rest of the broadcast & music world realizes what you knew 10 years ago to be true, it will be a long, slow battle toward profitability for personal radio.Īs a programmer myself, I often wondered how you did it. And the broader and deeper their musical knowledge and tastes, the more willing they’ll be to pay a higher price for personal radio, and to go out and buy CDs and MP3s of the new music they hear on their station. I really think that the majority of people however, have much broader and deeper musical opinions than that. I have to believe though that those listeners are exactly the people that really wouldn’t want to pay for a personal radio station in the first place. And those who are satisfied with creating a station initially based on a single artist or song. Those who prefer the single “like it /don’t like it” rating system. They’re still pursuing the lazy and/or more narrowly-focused music listeners.
LC still blows away Pandora, LastFM, Slacker, and the rest.
You guys revolutionized internet radio, and the world still hasn’t caught up. On all the days I wanted to escape the world, and all the days I wanted to embrace, it was there for me. It’s been my constant companion, day in and day out, for the last 6 years? 8 years? I’m not sure, actually. Maybe you could pass this on to them as well? I’m really going to miss my personal station – I can’t even begin to tell you how much. I also wanted to send a personal note of thanks to you, Todd, and everyone else who was involved in making LAUNCHcast the incredible product that it was.