Comments on: Share your music talent on Uhooroo

By: pranav

pranav — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:18:18 +0000

@Nav,

I dont think that Uhooroo is in the same market as Myspace music of FB music. The market that Uhooroo is targeting is the indie and hindustani, classical genre in India

By: Nav

Nav — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 04:33:50 +0000

I’m digging the look of the site. With Myspace music’s recent launch and Facebook music’s imminent launch … the market is going to get pretty tough. Their barriers to entry will be tough to scale. Why not a DRM-free model? If I were these guys I’d look at wemusicstore.com and normative.com , the models they are playing with are scaled low right now … but will be a place most ppl will trudging through in a year or two. Having a platform that allows new bands to push music, marketing and general web presence would be extremely attractive in my opinion.

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By: Gatuam Kshatriya

Gatuam Kshatriya — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:32:07 +0000

Uhooroo – interesting that there’s another Seedfunded startup called Uhuhoo. The latter’s business model is completely different from the site that you’ve just reviewed – they provide content management solutions to corporates.

I do feel that you’re right in your concern around whether the niche music scene is big enough in India to warrant a site such as Uhooroo. The reason why sites such as Last.fm and Pandora in the US / UK are successful is because of such a huge music industry with new artists being launched everyday.

I don’t know where these guys are based – but if they can come around to Mumbai, there’s a great new record label launched by this club called Blue Frog – that showcases niche acts. An alliance with them might make sense. They also have a group on Facebook. There’s another great label in Delhi called Baba records.

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