I'm a web & product designer looking to help make the world a better place with web3.

Redefining the way you connect with music - A web3 music streaming platform

## The app - Discover, Connect, Support, & Collaborate

This is a platform where fans come to support artists.

It’s a place where people come to discover new music.

It’s a place where people come to connect over music.

It’s a place where artists come to discover new people to collaborate.

It’s is a web3 music streaming platform for music lovers and artists.

## How it works

### For music fans and listeners

Its a place to connect over music, discover new music, and support your favorite artists.

Listen to music and create playlists for free. Connect with your favorite artists by learning more about them and joining their conversations.

![App Concept](https://images.mirror-media.xyz/publication-images/a2IBW0gEu8MGXcV1p8wPy.png?height=1800&width=3000)

**Feed**

See what other people and artists you follow like, release, or announce!

**Library**

Here lives all of the music you save, music from your NFTs and your playlists.

**Profile**

See your music listening stats, define your favorite artists, share a little about you, and optionally show off your Music NFTs (not only the ones purchased here, but also the ones that you’ve bought from other platforms)!

**Discover - Future feature**

A new way to discover music based on your what you listen to and who you follow. More on this soon.

**Support your favorite artists**

Artists don’t make money from streaming here, you can support them by buying their NFTs, supporting their projects, or sending them tips!

**Connect with others**

Follow other people with similar music tastes and start conversations around the music.

**Community playlists - Maybe**

You can create community shared playlists where people can vote on what gets added and have a conversation around the music.

**Web3 Optional**

People don’t have to have a wallet to join the platform. They can sign up with their email to listen to music and create playlists. For access to all of the features you do need to connect a wallet. I think that this platform can help onboard millions more to web3.

### For music artists

This is the home of your music on web3. You can upload tracks, share your story, build a community, sell NFTs, and crowdfund projects.

![Concept part 2](https://images.mirror-media.xyz/publication-images/Vfpabwdv8MmJfcPfXoncj.png?height=1800&width=3000)

**Uploading music**

You can upload new music and connect to your other web3 music profiles if you want to pull the music from other platforms (Sound.xyz, Catalog, Royal, etc). Its the place where all of your web3 music will live, so everyone can listen to it!

**Share your story**

Share as much as you want about yourself. You profile is the place where people come to learn about you and your art. You can share meanings behind your tracks, stories, your bio and what you stand for, and your inspirations.

**Build a community**

People can follow you so that updates, announcements, new tracks, and NFT drops show up in their feed. You can also have weekly get togethers with your fans to connect with them or vibe over music.

**Selling NFTs**

Here’s how you actually make money. Streaming doesn’t generate money for you here, you can still use Spotify or other platforms for that.

The main idea is that you share your music and the story behind it and generate NFTs with it.

You can have different editions with different utilities and sell either with a fixed price or auction.

You get the money from the sale and a percentage of the resell if it happens.

**Tips**

People can leave tips if they can’t afford an NFT or just want to support you, show some appreciation for the art you made, they can also send notes with their tips. In return they get a NFT badge in their profile.

**Crowdfunding projects - Future feature**

You can also crowdfund projects here! You can raise money for whatever you want. Some examples are:

* Raising capital for your new album’s marketing and distribution budget
* Raising capital to complete a new project
* Business ideas


NFTs for Freelancers

I came up with this idea a few weeks ago and I’m executing it as a project while learning how to create NFTs on [buildspace](https://buildspace.so/).

# The main concept

Sell design services through NFTs.

# Why?

More control over payment and a new “membership“ type of design service for companies.

# How it works

The idea I came up with is for my web design services. It can be tailored to any service you have and whatever benefits you feel comfortable delivering.

## Web Design NFT 

It’s an NFT with a special “membership type“ utility. 

Whoever owns this NFT gets a full web design and Webflow development service with these benefits for one year:

* Unlimited tweaks, like adding new sections or pages or updating imagery or copy.
* Monthly check-in meetings (reviewing goal, web & marketing consultation, etc)
* Technical support
* Slack channel for quick communication with the freelancer

This is a simple idea but something that might be useful for many companies, especially early-stage startups since they’re in constant evolution. 

It’s the freelancer’s job to set clear boundaries for the terms of engagement and what each benefit entails. This should be clearly communicated in some way before the person buys the NFT.

## The 3-year idea

This idea is a bit more unique and I’m not sure if it’s viable but I think it’s worth sharing. 

A design service NFT with a 3-year utility.

* Web design with Webflow development service **once a year**, for 3 years. (Meaning that you can request a whole redesign or completely new website once a year)
* On-going support and benefits as long as you have the token. 

If you decide to transfer the token the benefits and remaining utility transfer to the new owner.

Dates of when new websites/redesigns can be requested are defined by the initial mint day. If you buy the token and a whole year passes without you using the benefits you’ll have a remainder of two years to still take advantage of your benefits.  

If you transfer it to someone else and a year hasn’t passed since you requested your full service, they’ll have to wait until the defined date of renewal.

# What do you think about this?

This is an idea and not a fully fleshed-out business plan but I think it can be an interesting way for freelancers to work. This can apply to almost any freelance service, from copywriting to marketing, branding, and design.

I’ll be sharing how I execute this as I progress with my learning journey of making NFTs.

Do you think this is a viable business model and something useful for you as a freelancer or company?