Become A Music Mogul: Hitmaker From NoiseToys Hits The App Store
Last week at TechCrunch Disrupt, music startup NoiseToys launched with a demo of its iPhone app, Hitmaker. The app is now available in the iTunes store as a free download.
This was one of my favorite products to launch at Disrupt, even though the company never made it past the first round. Hitmaker makes a game out of discovering and promoting music. You get $500,000 in play money with which to “buy” real songs, which then change in value depending on how popular they become on the Web, in iTunes, and in the game. The idea is that you want to buy low when nobody knows about a song and sell high when it goes when it goes mainstream. You can pick songs from your own iTunes library, the top ranked songs on iTunes, the Hype Machine, or Last.FM, or the most-liked and most-recommended songs from Facebook. (It lets you login via Facebook Connect).
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