1. How would it be different from a site like Muziboo which has a large user base and is an older player compared to Uhooroo.
2. Though the Blog article mentions a partnership, how would Uhooroo help the Amateur musicians to reach the next level since, many guys who upload on the site might want to pursue Music as a career and they might be in search of partners who can play other instruments.

How would Uhooroo help facilitate the same or is it in the plan?

PS: A humble request to WATBlog Team, can you add SUBSCRIBE TO COMMENT in your articles so that readers can keep a track of the replies.Thanks in advance.

Jus a doubt. According to cmpny info, founders are still wrking in another company. So, Is Uhooroo a regd. compny ? Unless so, does it really deserve to be called a Startup ?… Could be more aptly titled ‘a music website review’….
Nowadays every new WEBSITE is a Startup…!!

Thanks a lot for the detailed and balanced review. Some notes we would like to point out:

1) Your points on the overuse of the word “platform”, lack of sign up confirmation, and upload usability issues are noted and well taken. We will get to these right-away. Regarding captchas, we actually removed them to keep the sign-up process quick and easy. We will probably re-enable them once comment spam does become a problem.

2) Regarding playlists & being able to listen to tracks while browsing through the site – these features actually make a lot of sense for sites that stream non-indie, commercial or film music. On Uhooroo, listeners seem to focus on exploring new talent (artistes and tracks) instead of sticking to a certain set everytime. Further, we actually want the listener to provide some implicit/explicit feedback on each track/artiste before she moves on to another. This is one area where we intentionally pioneered a unique set of features and a design, for an indie-music focused service, that go beyond the usual comments/ratings – e.g. “Go Live” (focuses on airing one track at a time), “Anonymous Ratings” (listener doesn’t need to be logged-in or even registered with us to rate.. and this translates to 10x or 100x fold increase in user feedback.. and even then it’s not possible to rate a track more than once if someone intends to abuse this..), “Playedfully” and “Airtime” (we actually count how many times each track was heard substantially instead of just randomly landed-upon, and also the total seconds of airtime it got), “cover-art” to visually identify each track etc. These set of features, and the fact that we are focused on Indian music is what differentiates us from other generic networking sites out there.

However, we do realize that these features you mention are almost universally good features to have. So far we were focused on getting indie musicians on board and getting them to network with each other. Playlist type features is something we will consider as we try to blow this out to a general audience of listeners.

3) As far as the business model is concerned, we do have some ideas about where we are going with this and we will be sure to hit you guys up once we are ready to pursue monetization. It’s definitely not the usual suspects (paid accounts, selling indie music).

Vinay & Bharath
(Co-founders)