Nothing Better Than Working On A Startup That Has Something To Do With Music : - )

Here I am helping to build a fresh new startup, and feeling so grateful to Tom Wilson and Sean Weas for choosing me to help them build Kazamster. 

It's this beautiful software startup that lets you bring your playlist with you to any streaming service of your choice.

Okay it's in Beta, so it only has the option to convert Spotify to Google Play Music right now. But hey, 500 users have logged in since the launch just four months ago. It's pretty clear to me that Tom and Sean have built something people want. 

Playlist are so very personal to us users. We build them with mounds of passion, creativity, and love. Of course the streaming service's would like you to stay with them forever, but like any free enterprise system us users have choices. Maybe we want to switch over to another service for whatever reason. It's not like we're saying we don't like the one we're in,we just want to swim in the music waters of another streaming service, and we want to bring our playlist with us. 

I can't say what the streaming services are thinking, but surely they don't want to let users take their playlist with them, it's one of the main things that keeps users locked into their service. I don't blame them one bit, it's business. Keeping customers is doing good business. Yet, disruption was bound to happen. 

For me, besides all the cool things I'm learning and doing to help Kazamster, I'm listening to a ton of music! This is so good for me, as sometimes, as an adult, I get caught up into all work, and forget how to have fun. 

From what I've been reading I can say the Playlist is going to have a giant impact on all of our futures. It's going to turn into something amazing, and you and I are apart of that. In fact you've been creating it. You've been helping to shape it. 

Update: As of 10/18/16 This startup is running itself. It's still up, but Tom and Sean have joined a marijuana startup called GrowFlow, which looks intensely exciting to me. I don't know what to do. I can't run Kazamster by myself. I looked into buying it, but still that would leave me alone searching for a developer. I'm working on learning code and Salesforce. Two things I can do for free and on my own time. 

Keep building your startups ~ 

  

Getting All Magical On Me Is Not Enough Traction

I was at my day job again, which is really a overnight job at the local hospital. After four years of working there, I finally posted something in the break room on the "Brag Board" This is where people often brag about the new life they gave birth to, or the new grandchild they have. For me, I bragged about the birth of my new startup Passdown. 

I found it super hard to do. I just do not care to brag even about these good things in life. Don't know why, it's just me. I choose to share it with them because they all saw my last startup's birth and well, pretty much they all knew before me it didn't really have a chance. Although I still hold out hope for DighThin, it could somehow take off, but without the founder pushing it, it's unlikely.

The reason I chose to brag about Passdown is simple. Traction! I never really bragged about DigiThin at work even though many people, including myself could benefit from it. I was definitely uncomfortable about stepping into the traction channel for DighThin. With Passdown everything is different.

The first big difference about Passdown is the fact that when I tell someone about it, they get this magical, sparkly look on their face. They react in such a way that blows my mind. It tells me something. It shocks me. It quites me. It thrills me. It astounds me. "How can this be, I ask, in my mind?" In all the years of my crazy ideas, I never got this reaction. 

As I have said in all my recent post. To me Passdown just seems like another one of my crazy ideas. When I witness this delight of joy in people, my heart melts into a million pieces of awe! My mind thinks, could this be my gift for humanity that I have been searching for? If these reactions are any indication, I would say so. Yet, I have the business side playing. "Just a few friends and co-workers, some outside my network strangers, getting all magical on me" is not enough traction to say, "Oh yes, you nailed it" 

No, I need one hundred thousand people to sign up on the beta list in like one day to say "I nailed it", or at least a steady increasing stream that can be multiplied to see the potential growth.  

My heart is in conflict with my mind. The two are fighting for the joy. One want's business and the other wants to see the sparkly magical expressions on peoples faces. It's not a bad place to be. I've never been in it.

As I walked into the break room with my t-shirt on a hanger. The note explaining my new startup to them, I felt, awkward. I didn't want anyone to see me hang my brag. 

I want them to know, because they are my work family. They care about me and I care about them. To be able to share with them the amazing things Passdown will do for them, well, I had to share it with them. They never threw me into the loonie bin with all my other far fetched ideas. They still loved me, for who I am. Maybe this startup will give them an everlasting smile. : - )

The Story Of This Startups 2090 Man

2090 Man

As I have been building Passdown, there is a page in the web site called The Year 2090. It's a look into the future. Seventy Six years from now. On this page is a list of currently used Social Networks as well as some made up networks or apps of the future. Here is the list.

Twitter: 1.7 MM Followers

WhisperApp: 19 MM Replies, 28 MM Hearts 11 MM Whispers

Facebook: 5 K Friends

Facebook Business: 842K Likes

FoundMe: 11 K Negotiations 20 K Nods

Pinterest: 4 MM Followers 9oo K Pins 12 K Repins

LinkedIN: 2.9 MM Connections

Youtube: 920 Videos 1189 Subscriptions

Medium:1200 Post, 879 Unpublished Posts

Mobile Apps Galore:69

3Yobitor:7 Externals 1 Completion

StrappyApp: 4 K Straps

Gmail:157 K Sent 224 K Received

CountTheStairs:7 K Accomplishments

Vine: 30 K Likes, 55 K Comments, 48 K Loops, 211 KRevines

Instagram: 28 K Followers, 22 K Post

Blogger: 28 K Post, 14 K Unpublished

Tumblr: 48 K Followers, 32 K Post

Wiggle:19 K Wiggles

GeeVee: 10 MM Compliments, 17 MM Encouragements

It might be hard to imagine someone having these high numbers in any of their network accounts. Yet the social internet hasn't been around for seventy six years. Maybe 20 years since we first starting getting connected to the World Wide Web. It's important for you to look at the future to understand what Passdown is. 

You see I had this problem on the right side of the list was a great big blank spot. So I needed a decoration and my graphics man Sultan, came up with 2090 Man. He is sort of the unofficial mascot now. He's so cute.

Passdown will be launching the beta sign up in September. We have so much to build for you. We at Passdown are very excited about your future.