Musicboard, an app for music discovery and suggestions, has been struggling, in keeping with its users. Over the previous a number of months, customers stated the app experienced outages, the web site went offline, and the Android app disappeared from the Play Retailer.
This has involved its devoted, if small, person base. (The app has been downloaded round 462,000 instances thus far, in keeping with market intelligence supplier Appfigures.) On Reddit, customers have been recommending alternate options and providing one another help as they look forward to any replace.
Whereas it’s not stunning for an app to close down, when there’s nonetheless an energetic person base, apps sometimes present some kind of communication from their operators. However Musicboard customers say they haven’t heard something, leaving them to achieve out to the press for assist getting in contact with somebody, if solely to allow them to export their information.
Some customers organized an unofficial “Assist Save Musicboard” initiative to deliver extra consideration to the matter. The group is led by the Musicboard person referred to as Lavarini and run by volunteers.
TechCrunch contacted Musicboard to assist these customers get some solutions and was supplied a brief assertion. Nevertheless, the assertion didn’t clarify the longer-term points and dismissed the outages as “short-term downtime.”
The assertion, shared from the Musicboard crew e-mail tackle and signed merely as “Musicboard,” stated the next:
“App isn’t shut down. The servers had short-term downtime, which has now been shortly mounted. And we’re working along with the Google Play crew to get the app again up there. The app wouldn’t shut down with no respectful timeline for the customers and official communication. App is staying dwell.”
Observe-up questions went unanswered.
The founders of Musicboard, Johannes Vermandois and Erik Heimer, have been concerned with different tasks. Their AI app, Frank AI, was set to be acquired by an organization referred to as Freedom Holdings, Inc., however the potential acquirer terminated its letter of intent in September 2024. Dreamsands, Inc., the corporate that publishes Frank AI on the App Retailer, additionally operates one other app, Helm, an AI therapist.
Over e-mail, Lavarini says the customers’ efforts to assist save the app will proceed.
The Assist Save Musicboard initiative “goals to help consciousness and dialogue across the long-term sustainability of the indie app Musicboard and its group,” Lavarini wrote.
