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Behind the Scenes at Fiddlewax
I thought some of you might appreciate a transparent view of what it's like from the start-up/developer side of the fence.
It's been 1 year (today!) since I started Fiddlewax -- here's to another year!
http://news.fiddlewax.com/post/101167054349/happy-birthday-fiddlewax
Cheers,
Adam
Comments
I recommend that anyone who's interested in anything to do with iOS and music apps and money and how start-ups operate should read this - which, judging by the fireside chat and other threads recently, is a lot of us.
I'm really rooting for you after that excellent blog, Adam!
Adam! Really great post, thank you, and happy anniversary. Don't lose heart!
Thanks @Michael_R_Grant and @syrupcore!
It's been great to get so much feedback and insight from everyone here.
Thanks a lot for posting this, definitely some great food for thought. Best of luck going forward too, seems like you're on the right track.
Great blog post Adam. Really candid and thus really interesting.
I wish you the best of the luck. The app is great and I'm using it as a composition tool for bits of every track at the moment (and expect to continue doing so).
Good stuff, Adam! The Fiddlewax Pro release has been a positive experience for my view of both sides - Adam's energy and excitement about the release and continued improvement of his apps is really refreshing. Same with his ability to take constructive criticism. While I appreciate all of the indie developers (Tony from Analog MIDISequencer comes to mind as another great example), it's impressive to me when developers who have obviously put a lot of time and heart into their projects are nonetheless interested in hearing what actual users think about their product.
It would be so easy for a developer like Adam to say "Dude, I worked on this for a year with no promise of profit; you thought about it for all of 5 minutes before posting your complaint". But that opinion formed in 5 minutes (or less) is the one that really matters to the consumer buying the app.
Anyway, glad to have Adam on the forum and really enjoying watching Fiddlewax Pro develop. Thanks for the behind-the-scenes insight into one of the better developers in these parts.
Great read Adam and some interesting motivational insights. I passed this on to a developer who is in a very similar situation.
Also, sidebar: the Space editor looks pretty stunning. In one sense, I'm surprised it didn't get legs; in another, it's hard for me to imagine switching editors. I'd give you my daughter before giving you my vim. Looks like Juanitomint is going for it though which is rad and good on you guys for open sourcing it.
By the way, my next project will almost certainly be a soft urban experience for alcoholics and thieves.
@syrupcore said:
Yeah, the collaborative code editor was our first big project. We even released it at a pretty optimal time relative to how websocket tech was unfolding. Just didn't pan out as a product... I do still write all my web code in it, though
Ha! We put that together as a quick 1-day hack for a craft night in Seattle. It displayed in the background to offer participants some random inspiration just for fun.
Congratulations for your anniversary!And thanks for the very personal insights.
FiddlewaxPro is one of those (rare) apps I immediately "fell in love" with and I enjoy it EVERY
day.I run a small studio for almost 40 years now and FiddlewaxPro is fully integrated in my
daily workflow.Thank you for that!Talking about money- I started out with an acoustic guitar
and I wanted to become a good studio-musician.Hard work,good times,bad times and all of the
rest.But today I still am happy because I do what I love the most (besides my wife) and that is
writing,recording ,playing music.You just started off,I'm sure you'll make it!
Sorry for this long novel...
I finally got around to reading your blog post and enjoyed your detailed account. Congratulations on your 1st year. I'm curious to know if you "surveyed the landscape" before (or since) starting Fiddlewax. Have you researched existing virtual instrument apps or attempted to assess the viability of developing them?
Good question @telecharge. It sort of gets at the blurring of the lines between music app maker/entrepreneur and entrepreneur/music app maker.
I want apps I love to stick around and I'm thinking that the latter might be the path.
I've ponderred on and off for the last few years the intersect of songwriter and entrepreneur (I'm a musician who reads hacker news). I dont think most artists/songwriters consider themselves "entrepreneurs", nor do entrepreneurs consider themselves "artists" but, I think both camps have quite a lot in common (create something new, test the waters, deal with pricing...) and stand to learn a good deal from each other. Indeed, that most in each camp don't consider the path crossing means there's a good deal of 'new' knowledge out there from which to learn.
To my point, Adam's blog post resonates quite easily with many musician ("I'm not an entrepreneur") readers.
@telecharge - I did spend some time surveying the landscape and considering existing instruments/tools and markets. But in the end I'm more inclined toward a vision-based, as opposed to a problem-based, approach. The difference is subtle but important to me.
A problem-based approach focuses on building something to specifically address an existing problem (and thus an established market). A vision-based approach starts from thinking about what one would like to exist in the future, and then works back from that to illustrate and excite potential users (often needing to create or expand a market). Of course visions often address problems too, but they come from the other side.
Admittedly, the user in most cases doesn't know (or care) which approach was taken; but the product itself is often quite different depending on the underlying perspective of its creators. There were lots of MP3 players before the iPod, but the big difference was in all the subtle design decisions based on a vision of what it could be. That naturally led to new markets that couldn't have been easily predicted at the time. Not to equate my own efforts with such a successful and insightful team at Apple, just describing the importance in how the approaches differ.
@syrupcore - The main difficulty in getting apps to stick around is that the platform on top of which they run changes over time. That often leads to either sub-optimal experiences, or in the worst case, apps that no longer work. Hence the importance of supportive communities like this that keep the conversation alive and spur on developers to continue making updates!