Welcome back to HIVE.
Did you start a business?
I've had businesses for several decades. Making businesses is easy. The hard part is getting customers.
I haven't done much in the music world. I tried to help my next door neighbor start a music business. He recorded an album when he was a teen.
So, I created a web site to sell the album. The site would stream the songs. This was back when streaming over HTTP was difficult. Since bandwidth was expensive. It closely monitored and throttled the streaming to prevent bandwidth overcharges.
I put up a web store that interfaced with Paypal.
In two years I was able to sell exactly one CD for exactly one dollar.
I shipped the CD for free. So, I guess I lost money on the deal. That is pretty much the way my businesses go.
My neighbor was really good as a self-taught song writer. He recorded his first CD as a teen. You would think that a community would support a kid who had the gumption to record a CD?
Instead, all he got a solid wall of resistance.
I live in Utah. The state is run by the Mormon Church. The community is hostile to artists as free thinkers are a challenge to authority.
He was smart enough to flee Utah and is living in San Diego.
I wish the site was still up as the programming was quite clever. The site could have been used by anyone wanting to sell songs directly to customers.
This is his current site . He has some youtube videos and is on itunes. "Ride the Wave" is one of the songs from his first album.
The Infinite Doodle
The infinite doodle is really just a remix of an art registry that I created a long time ago.
The cool thing about the infinite doodle is that that each piece will have a line that flowing through the image. An artist who wants to create a piece will get an SVG image with a line. They will have to incorporate that line into the image. It might serve as a basis for an NFT. The lines would connect all of the pieces of the doodle.
It is off line. I need to reprogram the site.
You know it might be fun to do an infinite song. Each song would have a few notes which bleed into the next song.
Getting Back to HIVE
The alt currencies on Hive-Engine appear to be a primary focus of developers. Many of the alt-currencies have their own web site. The site CreativeCoin.xyz has the coin CCC. They like creative works . I assume they would like music.
Apparently, if you used creativecoin as one of the tags for a post, your post will get CCC tokens along with the HIVE.
Few people are investing in CCC. There are other coins that are making more money.
I've been there, man. I started a music company. The idea was to create custom tracks for individual and commercial clients. Didn't work. $0 earned. It turned into a moderately profitable piano studio. I ran it for a couple years. Starting a business is a real struggle, man. Good on you for sticking with it.
Ryan lucked out.
He went to the University of New Orleans to study jazz music. He joined a band that recorded additional albums.
UNO closed in his senior year due to a flood. . His room was on the second floor of the dorm; so he didn't actually lose anything.
He came back to Utah all bummed out about school and the fact that the band broke up.
When I met him after the flood he was talking about jumping a freighter and touring the world for a few years and maybe going back to school when UNO re-opened.
My response was: "Are you nuts! Every school in the nation was interested in taking in students from UNO. The mere fact that you were at UNO during the flood meant instant admission and free tuition at the school of your choice."
Sure enough, he went to the local University. He got instant admission and free tuition. He got in every class he wanted (even those with waiting lists). Professors competed to get him in their class. The fact that he missed the first weeks of the quarter didn't matter. The professors fawned over their displaced jazz musician from New Orleans. It was amazing.
It is strange. The people who lived in New Orleans were devastated by the disaster. People with a loose connection to the university benefited.
As you said, it takes drive to start a successful music career. We all have a few floods that we have to overcome. The luck was only part of it.
I've known so many hardworking artists with failed careers, that I am delighted to know at least one who succeeded.
I love that! I listen to some jazz myself. What's his current project?