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A free and open platform giving all musicians access to tools that let them manage, promote, and sell their music online.
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New connection types #247

Open jessevondoom opened 11 years ago

jessevondoom commented 11 years ago

We currently have connections in place with Paypal, Amazon S3, and MailChimp. In addition, we have some limited public search capabilities for Twitter and Tumblr, with similar code waiting to be pulled in for YouTube, Vimeo, and Flickr.

In addition to expanding the above, we need to look into the following services:

Michcioperz commented 11 years ago

I think Bitcoin payments support would be useful. I mean, I would use them.

leto commented 11 years ago

I would too! Patches welcome! I started working on Dwolla integration a long time ago and have an old forgotten branch lying around somewhere, like a dirty rag in an alley.

jessevondoom commented 11 years ago

So Bitcoin and Dwolla are in the "yeah they're there and we'll look at them later" pile.

Dwolla's just plain not going to work right now. I spoke with them — awesome people, awesome vision — but the US-to-US requirement is a real killer, as is the slower transaction speed. It effectively kills both international commerce and digital commerce. I think it'd be an interesting fit for some specific tools, but with scarce resources it's got wait until they're a little further along.

Bitcoin is potentially more interesting short-term. The main barrier there is our primary audience, working musicians, and a high technical barrier to usage. (That and volatility.) I've got no doubt we'll support it one day, but probably not until more consumer-friendly exchanges emerge...which may take a little time. But it has huge upside for physical/digital/international which are prime concerns.

leto commented 11 years ago

Not sure what "scarce resource" you are talking about @jessevondoom . Are you going to turn down a patch that implements Dwolla? If so, I will just fork :fork_and_knife: .

As for Bitcoin, I promise you that it is about 100x harder that Dwolla integration.

leto commented 11 years ago

:metal:

Michcioperz commented 11 years ago

I think some quite simple ways of integrating Bitcoin is using one of publicly available APIs like Coinbase, BIPS etc. Though I have no idea how to do it. I'm a simple man o_O

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gusaus commented 10 years ago

BandPage does this really well - some other potential services can be found at the bottom of this page - https://developers.bandpage.com/home

gusaus commented 10 years ago

Here's a great list of music APIs - http://musicmachinery.com/music-apis/

Lots of good material for hackfests!