FreeBird: Digital Jukebox

Our goal was to provide an easy way to introduce music-on-demand in pubs, bars, restaurants, venues and cafés.

Role
Head of Product
2019 2020
Expertise
Brand Design
Product Design

FreeBird was a startup created by John Weiss (based in Chicago) and Robbie Swaddle (based in Barcelona). We’ve teamed up in order to make our way to disrupt the digital jukebox market.

Our goal was to provide an easy way to introduce a music-on-demand in pubs, bars, restaurants, venues and cafés for:

  • venue owners (low cost, easy maintenance and profit-making)
  • musicians (providing extra earnings from music-on-demand)
  • venue guests (people who’d like to hear their favourite song in their favourite bar).

As for a startup, the resources and financials were limited. Different time zone and our regular daily jobs were also w “slowing down” factor in this project. We all knew what’s the vision, what is the goal and how we all can benefit from it as well.

Onboarding

Easily onboard users on the app

Browsing

Search for bar based on your personal music taste.

Music catalogue

After entering the venue user can browse the catalogue of available music to bid.

Bidding

After finding your favorite track you can bid on it to be played next.

Project has failed for a few reasons.

Firstly, we badly researched the posibilities of integrating the Spotify API and its limitations.

Secondly, covid hit hard and we weren't able to test the ideas in a real world situation. However, after telling the story about this project to numerous friends we had a good feedback on the idea itself.

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