Comments on: Project Name: Murray – An Online Band Management Application

By: derek kehler

derek kehler — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:41:33 +0000

Hey Pete,

Thanks for the reminder about Murray!

To be completely honest with you, I haven’t even thought about it since starting ScrnShots.com almost 8 months ago.

When I was working on Murray last year, I sent out quite a few surveys, and talked to a lot of my musician friends. Through it all I realized that marketing organization applications to musicians is not necessarily the best business idea. By nature, musicians (myself included) would rather spend money on their actual craft (ie. instruments and sound gear), and furthermore, they don’t really care that music is unorganized.

Now that doesn’t mean that there isn’t a need for it, but it just means that the majority of musicians wouldn’t pay money for it.

I think to sum it up… Murray will probably never happen… but don’t “fret”, I have other revolutionary online software ideas for musicians that, given a bit of extra time and money, you should see within the next few years.

By: Pete

Pete — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:32:27 +0000

Hey Derek,

What happened to this application idea, any news?!?!

By: derek kehler

derek kehler — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:08:43 +0000

I can’t remember all of them, and I can’t find the file where I wrote them all down, but here’s a few that i used:

http://www.indiebandmanager.com, http://www.bandmanager.com.au/, http://www.mrband.com/, http://bandzoogle.com/, http://www.broadjam.com/adwords/hosting/

and here’s a really cool article from a guy who uses basecamp for managing himself (indie artist on sufjan stephens record label)

By: evan

evan — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:42:30 +0000

heyDerek, I was just wondering what sites u checked into for your competitive analysis