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Is there a good app for follow new releases from artists?

Unverified: 1 app serves this, but we haven't mined enough user evidence yet to grade the execution. Not enough signal yet to classify this market.

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Tarpit · way in 'Fix music discovery' is a famous trap — a known graveyard with a shrinking API door.

Y Combinator names music discovery as a classic 'tarpit': lots of founders try it, users love the demo and never come back. You can build on Spotify's data, but in Nov 2024 Spotify restricted its recommendation and audio-analysis endpoints for new apps — the exact data a discovery tool needs. Possible, but go in with eyes open.

The way in: Recommendation/analysis tools on Spotify's API — but the endpoints you'd need are now restricted for new apps.

Moat: the licensed catalog is the product · platform risk: high · why: YC lists music discovery as a classic tarpit · Spotify restricted recommendations/audio-features for new apps Nov 2024

Apps that already serve this

AppRatingRatingsPrice
Spotify: Music and Podcasts4.841,041,643Free

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Who has tried building this

5 attempts, 4 stale, top 30 stars; repeatedly tried but consistently abandoned—a fragile niche.

ProjectStatusStarsStack
raffomania/songsonarstale30Rust
PaulMcInnis/Better-Release-Radaractive11TypeScript
aidannnd/music-notifierstale3Python
SBRK/deezer-new-releasesstale3JavaScript
antonin-lebrard/notify-releasesstale2Dart

Open-source projects that attempted this task — active ones show today's bar; abandoned ones are a signal to validate why earlier attempts died.

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