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Bman70 said:
A brief check shows Firebase gives 10GB of free bandwidth per month. For $5 on DigitalOcean, I get 1TB/mo bandwidth.
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Honestly 10GB (per project) should be plenty for most projects. Using it for a couple of projects and never got above that.

If you require more, Netlify gives you 15GB, and Vercel up to 1TB for free.
 
Asking you all web devs, from one to another... How much time would you reasonably take to make a clone (at least in features) of ReelCrafter and deploy it? Including the stats that let you check who played what, for how long, where did they pause, scrubbed back, etc?
 
Akarin said:
Asking you all web devs, from one to another... How much time would you reasonably take to make a clone (at least in features) of ReelCrafter and deploy it? Including the stats that let you check who played what, for how long, where did they pause, scrubbed back, etc?
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To give you an idea, I'm working on an audio hosting service.

I've been working full time for about 4 months now and I still need a couple more months to launch the first beta.

It's taking so long because I want to offer a very competitive pricing so I'm solving a lot of stuff myself instead of relying on third party services like ReelCrafter probably does.

Also, if I was making this for a single client it would be very different that making a service publicly available. It would be way simpler.
 
Akarin said:
Asking you all web devs, from one to another... How much time would you reasonably take to make a clone (at least in features) of ReelCrafter and deploy it? Including the stats that let you check who played what, for how long, where did they pause, scrubbed back, etc?
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Everyone has different needs, so just speaking personally, those aren't features I would use as a composer. I have no need to check who scrubbed back where, or see where they paused. That would waste time I could spend being creative. If the client likes it, I'm pretty sure I'll know when they email or call (or leave a comment in a form). It might be useful to see if they played it at all; but even then I'd prefer to hear that from the client instead of trying to analyze their behavior in secrecy.

Since my requirements are simpler, it would be fairly trivial to build myself a suitable portfolio site, with a private section for each prospective client to view, play, and comment on a work. Then I'd self-host it for free or $5. :grin:
 
Nico5 said:
Privacy Issues
In addition, deeper analytics is inherently somewhat privacy hostile (only important for people who care about the privacy topic). In person, we would generally not intently stare over the potential client's shoulder while they go through our portfolio, while taking detailed notes on how long they spent on each item.

And the privacy hostility gets worse when using 3rd party analytics providers, like Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and their ilk. But even any cloud service is that extra bit of a privacy violation, since they get to view all of their customers' analytics.

As a privacy conscious customer, I'm generally ok if the website I visit does some basic tracking of my visit and that data stays with them, but I really dislike when the tracking is done by the big aggregators who can follow you all over the web. Fortunately there's uBlock Origin.
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Yeah with GDPR laws it's even more strict now for users in the EU.

On my audio hosting service I'm struggling to find a way to tell our users from which country their plays come from in a privacy conscious manner. Obviously we will not track users, but we also don't want to be showing an annoying popup opting in to location collection on every embedded player.
 
Pier said:
I've been working full time for about 4 months now and I still need a couple more months to launch the first beta.
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This is why I gave up a 20 years coding career... In 4 months, I scored a movie, 2 shorts and made a hefty load of library tracks 😬

Looking forward to your product though. Anything that can make SoundCloud die has my attention.

Nico5 said:
For an artist (or any business) who may be gaining a dozen or two customers per year (or less?), I think there's limited value in that data.
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Found myself in situations where I received feedback only to discover later that the cue was not even opened or only the intro was listened to. It's not about stats, it's about knowing what's what as far as I'm concerned.
 
Akarin said:
This is why I gave up a 20 years coding career... In 4 months, I scored a movie, 2 shorts and made a hefty load of library tracks 😬

Looking forward to your product though. Anything that can make SoundCloud die has my attention.
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These kind of projects can be overwhelming... hopefully it will be worth the effort.

I'll let you know once I launch the beta!
 
Akarin said:
Hey all,

For the past year or so, I made myself a quick landing page on Wix in order to be able to send a link when applying for scoring jobs. Here's the URL: https://nicolas-schuele.com

The thing is that most of the time, I'll write a quick custom demo to join with my application. This demo track, I'll post on SoundCloud as a private link and sometimes provide a downloadable high-quality WAV file through Dropbox. And also send a YouTube link to my demo reel video. That's a lot of links...

...and I can't even track if they were opened.

So, I caved in and signed up for ReelCrafter. This thing is awesome and it lets me create custom pages with custom links for each potential client while having detailed analytics (was it opened? What part of the tracks were listened to? etc.)

But then I thought "do I really need my website anymore?" Instead, I made some kind of landing page using ReelCrafter only. It's here: https://rcrft.co/reel/nicoschuele/main-reel

What do you think? Should I redirect my domain name to this? Do you see any reason why a proper website would be preferable?
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Akarin said:
Hey all,

For the past year or so, I made myself a quick landing page on Wix in order to be able to send a link when applying for scoring jobs. Here's the URL: https://nicolas-schuele.com

The thing is that most of the time, I'll write a quick custom demo to join with my application. This demo track, I'll post on SoundCloud as a private link and sometimes provide a downloadable high-quality WAV file through Dropbox. And also send a YouTube link to my demo reel video. That's a lot of links...

...and I can't even track if they were opened.

So, I caved in and signed up for ReelCrafter. This thing is awesome and it lets me create custom pages with custom links for each potential client while having detailed analytics (was it opened? What part of the tracks were listened to? etc.)

But then I thought "do I really need my website anymore?" Instead, I made some kind of landing page using ReelCrafter only. It's here: https://rcrft.co/reel/nicoschuele/main-reel

What do you think? Should I redirect my domain name to this? Do you see any reason why a proper website would be preferable?

Thanks!
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Hi Nico! I'm thinking of going a similar route with using reelcrafter as a kind of landing page for my website. I feel it has everything I need for now. Just curious, would the url to your reelcrafter be what you're using to direct clients? And is there a way to change that url to just your name only, like you would on a website? Or is it not changeable? Hope this makes sense lol. Thanks!
 
Brian Cho said:
Hi Nico! I'm thinking of going a similar route with using reelcrafter as a kind of landing page for my website. I feel it has everything I need for now. Just curious, would the url to your reelcrafter be what you're using to direct clients? And is there a way to change that url to just your name only, like you would on a website? Or is it not changeable? Hope this makes sense lol. Thanks!
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Hey! You definitely can. I forwarded the URL in my DNS manager. Check this out: www.nicoschuele.com :)
 
Tit for tat I guess, but I have success by having my actual websites (two). I use both GoDaddy and Wix, which cost me a grand total of about $250 USD per year including email, hosting, tracking data, and domains. The best part is, a total hoser like myself can easily create and mange them.
 
pinki said:
Just to add that songspace.com should be in the running for anyone wanting to create fabulous client playlists and a lot less expensive than others.
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Thanks for that. Didn't know about it. Will check out the trial and see what the analytics look like, how feasible would it be to make a homepage with it, etc.
 
It’s a different approach than the others. On the one hand it makes creating client playlists incredibly intuitive and on the other it’s a space for music makers to manage their output and store information and then a SaaS for music publishers:

Songspace is the only platform designed to manage music publishing copyrights and master sound recordings - while streamlining everyday creative and administrative workflows for any size company.

It’s quite unique with excellent support and a really well written backend. Ive only been using it a week but it’s really proved to be invaluable already.
 
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Hi Nico, just now seeing this thread…. Your website and music is excellent! I enjoyed listening/watching your Demo too…. very cool!
 
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