Commerce · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to After 2.5 years on my side project, it has hit £500/month revenue
It's been a long slow hog and I almost gave up a few times (more than a few) but when covid hit this year it gave me some time to really focus on my product. There were stupid user journey things that I knew needed fixed. There were some features I knew needed added. And I knew the pricing was wrong. I spent some hardcore time working on these things back in March / April and since then my MRR has continued to grow. My product is SongBox (https://songbox.rocks) - it's an alternative to things like bandcamp and soundcloud for creators who need to share audio files privately.…
SongBox is a platform for audio creators to share files privately, offering an alternative to Bandcamp and Soundcloud. The service is designed for musicians and audio professionals who need secure file sharing… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. After 2.5 years on my side project, it has hit £500/month revenue launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Back in 2010 I had an idea for a service that would allow people to easily create semi-permanent email aliases so that they could give an email address to people and websites without revealing their real email address. These aliases will continue to work indefinitely unless you choose to block them. My brother and I spent a few months building the initial version and launched the website in July 2010. For the first year we had about 50 signups per month, by 2013 this had increased to 1500 and it's currently around 3500 per month. Similarly, our revenue grew consistently but slowly - doubling…
2020 · its alternatives →
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- 3SO
Hi HN! I'm Gabe, the creator of Songcraft (https://songcraft.io/home). I recently dove headfirst into songwriting, and I quickly grew frustrated with my process. I found songwriting difficult enough without having to wrangle a mess of different tools, and there's no great solution to build chord sheets and tabs (unless you love pure text input). So, I built Songcraft - an online songwriting platform and tab builder. The drag-and-drop editor makes it easy to jump from chords to lyrics to melodies. I added a chord progression generator and chord recommendation engine to ensure…
2019 · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I built this. Quick background on why it exists: When music is streamed on digital streaming platforms (think Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora), there are two separate royalty streams: one for the recording, paid through your distributor (DistroKid, TuneCore, CDBaby), and one for the underlying work (generally known as publishing). The work side's mechanical royalties are collected by The MLC, a nonprofit that was created by the 2018 Music Modernization Act (MMA). If you haven't registered your songs with The MLC, there are issues with your metadata, or about half a dozen other reasons,…
Aug 2026 · pub.doub.ly · its alternatives →
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Create a track. Publish it. Earn when it is used.
Apr 2026 · elevenlabs.io · its alternatives →
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A modern, network-enabled music player platform built on Rockbox technology https://www.rockbox.org - tsirysndr/rockboxd
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Songcraft.io▲88A platform for songwriters to write, organize & collaborate.
2021 · songcraft.io · its alternatives →
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SongBox▲6The smarter alternative to Soundcloud - for music pro's
2020 · songbox.com · its alternatives →
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2012 · mvsic.co · its alternatives →
- 11IM
Some of you may know me as a freelance developer and the founder of BugMuncher, but my primary passion in life is actually music. I've recently decided to have a go at making some money from my music by submitting songs to Audio Jungle. So far I've only submitted 2 songs, but both were approved for sale first time, so I guess I'm doing something right :) My second submission is a song I wrote specifically with tech start-ups' landing page videos in mind: http://audiojungle.net/item/introducing-success/3581039 Hopefully it can find a home on someone's landing page :)
2012 · audiojungle.net · its alternatives →
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Sell your audio. Keep 100%. No platform fees.
Jan 2026 · tihtunevault.com · its alternatives →
- 13MMixcastr▲5
URL: http://mixcastr.com/ The end of the weekend is here, and my project (roughly 15 hours) is done. It's called Mixcastr, and it uses the Sound Cloud API to serve songs from their platform, based on user queries. So yeah, it's really just a glorified search interface - but I had fun making it. Hopefully next weekend I'll expand on its functionality/utility. Breakdown: Sinatra, Twitter Bootstrap, SoundCloud JavaScript SDK, and Heroku, Polymorphs, CloudMade
2011 · mixcastr.com · its alternatives →
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I’ve always found it funny how simple feedback widgets end up as $20–$30/month products. The tech is dead simple, infra is cheap, and most of us here could rebuild one in a weekend. So as a “principle experiment” I built my own today as a side project and priced it at 1 dollar. Just because if something is cheap to run and easy to replicate, it should be priced accordingly, and it’s also fun marketing. 1$ feedback tool. Shipped today, got the first users/moneys today, writing this post today. Side Sunday project, then back to the main product tomorrow.
Dec 2025 · onedollarfeedback.com · its alternatives →
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Have been making music using ML/AI tools for about as long as I've been on HN. Had a recent comment section on HN here [1] and after that thought it might be worthwhile to write out about the journey in greater detail... from crude LSTM models, to hacking around with Jukebox, and now Suno. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45388822
Dec 2025 · songxytr.substack.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I made a website to share and discover the next big hits in music. It works like ProductHunt but for music instead of products: anyone can share their discoveries of new hits and support talented emerging artists. The result is a curation of the best new emerging music where you can find new hits daily to make your playlists shine. Demo: https://twitter.com/mattiapomelli/status/1607463004794392577 Hope you like it, would love to hear what you think :D
2023 · leets.it · its alternatives →
- 17IM
Wanna impress your audience but don’t have enough money for a lambo? Fake it till you make it with a phony MRR dashboard! This might just look like I'm taking the piss, but I see this as an artistic statement about the latest trend of posting fake/embellished marketing content
2024 · usegravity.app · its alternatives →
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Hey HN I’m an indie founder who built [SyncForge](https://trysyncforge.xyz) — a SaaS platform that helps artists, producers, and composers submit their music to sync opportunities in film, TV, ads, and games. Problem: Most creators don’t have access to the music licensing world. It’s either locked behind big publishers or buried in manual submissions. Solution: SyncForge automates the process — artists can: - Create a free account and upload tracks - Submit to active sync briefs from studios and brands - Manage metadata, rights, and submissions in one place It’s still early, but…
Nov 2025 · trysyncforge.xyz · its alternatives →
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Welcome to Musicrage. Your trusted source for quality information and resources.
2012 · musicrage.org · its alternatives →
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title basically covers it. project #2 from my paternity leave. My partner & I got frustrated with hearing Brahm's Lullaby and Wheels On The Bus repeatedly. I also stand by that babies can enjoy adult music just as easily as they can enjoy "kids music". But most adult music is too dense/complex for babies to understand, so I created this to generate baby-friendly, slowed down versions of songs that we like to play for our baby & sing along with. Uses BS-roformer for stemming out the input audio + spotify Basic Pitch for transposing to midi. Still needs some work, kinda sounds like a…
Aug 2026 · lullabyconverter.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · soundbox.fyi · its alternatives →
- 22TI
2013 · distrokid.com · its alternatives →
- 23AL
A buddy and I decided to hack on this little project this weekend, putting in about 12 hours. It's running Ruby on Rails, deployed to Heroku. We tried to keep things super lean with different gems handling user accounts, mailchimp for an email list and super lean styling/layout. Everything should work well enough on mobile devices, too, so give it a look! Right now the magic all happens via the Soundcloud API (of course), but we're exploring different ways to make this appeal to a broader audience of music listeners. We'd love your feedback! Here's the site:…
2014 · its alternatives →
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Hi - I'm part composer, part engineer and big fan of reading blogs where people learn out loud or with the garage door up by sharing their notebooks or journals. I've been doing this in Moleskines for years (going back to the 80s) but made it a new year's in 2024 resolution to post SOMETHING everyday, so long as I created the sound. I have a big archive of demos and seeds of ideas, so I figured it wouldn't hurt to do something with those in the process. Being so steeped in programming for the last 30 years, a healty chunk of this material is made via coding with Csound, TidalCycles, some raw…
2025 · listenfaster.com · its alternatives →
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