<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>steve-benjamins</author><text>I’m a musician and Indie Shuffle was my first “break.”&lt;p&gt;It gave about 20,000 plays which BLEW MY MIND at the time. Nothing like waking up to a huge increase&lt;p&gt;Today I’m a modest success. Several songs have 1-2m plays on Spotify and I make $800 &amp;#x2F; month from streaming. It’s just something I do in my evenings for fun.&lt;p&gt;I owe my success to outlets Indie Shuffle and SubmitHub—- I’ve found Spotify really privileges discovery for major label artists.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jasongrishkoff</author><text>I started two music-related websites:&lt;p&gt;1) &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.indieshuffle.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.indieshuffle.com&lt;/a&gt; - a music discovery blog&lt;p&gt;2) &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.submithub.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.submithub.com&lt;/a&gt; - a service that connects musicians with music curators&lt;p&gt;I make my living off these platforms (primarily the second). So in essence, my discovery-centric services are viable products. That said, I&amp;#x27;m not sure that&amp;#x27;s 100% what he was after in the Twitter thread this article was based on: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;jherskowitz&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1466078600822677513&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;jherskowitz&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1466078600822677513&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A few things I’ve come to believe in my years in music tech</title><url>https://twitter.com/jherskowitz/status/1466078600822677513</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>usrusr</author><text>Sounds like a perfectly fine mismatch between proper bootstrapping and the mindset of growing investment fueled by some hypothetical value proposition.&lt;p&gt;Is submithub what I think I am seeing? Basically a solution to a spam problem by offering a channel that requires the equivalent of stamps so that senders rate-limit themselves, focusing a bit more on quality over quantity? If that&amp;#x27;s not a complete misperception I like it very much, great niche-spotting!</text><parent_chain><item><author>jasongrishkoff</author><text>I started two music-related websites:&lt;p&gt;1) &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.indieshuffle.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.indieshuffle.com&lt;/a&gt; - a music discovery blog&lt;p&gt;2) &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.submithub.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.submithub.com&lt;/a&gt; - a service that connects musicians with music curators&lt;p&gt;I make my living off these platforms (primarily the second). So in essence, my discovery-centric services are viable products. That said, I&amp;#x27;m not sure that&amp;#x27;s 100% what he was after in the Twitter thread this article was based on: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;jherskowitz&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1466078600822677513&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;jherskowitz&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1466078600822677513&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A few things I’ve come to believe in my years in music tech</title><url>https://twitter.com/jherskowitz/status/1466078600822677513</url></story>