From the workshop.
An indie music app, by design.
The financial, structural, and stubborn case for staying small. Why Vibes won't take growth funding, won't add advertising, and won't try to be everyone's homepage.
Read post →Why we built Vibes.
The shortest answer is that I missed sending songs to people. The longer answer is about what social media did to music and why a smaller, slower channel is worth building.
Read post →Why no algorithm.
A focused argument against algorithmic feeds in social music. Algorithms are strangers, friendship is a graph, and the feed is the wrong unit.
Read post →18 months in the workshop.
A long, honest build log — what we shipped, what we cut, what broke us, and what we learned along the way. The kind of write-up nobody publishes anymore.
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More posts when there's something worth saying. Drop your email and we'll send a note when we publish.