Whyd’s 2013 Year In Review

Well, it’s the last day of 2014, a day of reflection for all of the cool events and milestones from the past year. We started 2013 with a trip down to MIDEM in Cannes, meeting with cool music lovers and industry folk. We flashmobbed a Durban Dance, created hilarious Whyd memes, partied in Barcelona and at the #AperoMusicTech events across Paris.   

We boosted the product with the new recommendation systemlaunched totally new profilesstuck a shuffle in there, created Hot Tracks by genre, and beefed up the social features with comments and mentions to get to the Whyd that you see today. 

But more importantly, we shared hundreds of thousands of the best of the newest tracks thanks to you, our wonderful community. What will 2014 have in store for us? Some amazing things, you will see the first step on January 6th, so hold on tight! 

31st December 2013

One Step Closer to Mobile

Even though it was recently the long holiday weekend here in Europe, our dedicated programmers were hard at work. We are still working on our native mobile apps for iOS and Android, but in the mean time, our guys hacked a quick fix. 

Now you can go to whyd.com/mobile and see a list of your tracks, search for any track, and add tracks to your profile from the search. This will give you the chance to go directly to the media and play the tracks that you want. It won’t play everything in a row and it doesn’t have playlists, but at least for those with iPhones you can get to your music, plus any other song in the world, and listen to it. 

It is merely a simple cover for the bigger roll out of the mobile platform and apps coming very very soon. But since it takes a while to make a killer mobile app, you can at least continue the jamming with less of an interruption.

12th November 2013

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Something Big is Coming…

You might have noticed that not very much has changed at Whyd over the past few months, and that there haven’t been any major announcement emails blasted across our community. But that is going to change very, very soon. 

We have been hard at work improving the platform, optimizing the features we have, and of course adding new functionality that will be arriving in the near future. 

For everyone who has stuck with us since the very beginning a year and a half ago, thank you for your support. For everyone who has joined us since then, thank you for your kind works and encouragement. For everyone who sent in feedback, reported bugs, offered suggestions and came to our events to meet us, thank you. None of this would have been possible without you. 

So stay tuned, the ride is about to get a lot more exciting, and we’re glad to have you all with us. 

Never stop jamming! 

29th October 2013

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Shuffle ==> hfSfleu ==> Shuffle

It was the number 2 most requested feature (narrowly beat out by the mobile app which is coming!) and now it is live on Whyd. The ability to shuffle the tracks in your playlists, your profile, and your stream. Listening to music on Whyd just got a whole lot better. 

Some of you may be wondering, why the hell are you talking about adding a shuffle feature to a music service? Shouldn’t that have been there from the beginning? Sure, you’re probably right, but it’s important to remember why Whyd was created. Whyd was not created to be a full service listening destination. It was created to be the place where the trendiest music lovers share the coolest tracks of the moment. So your incoming stream is already shuffled because people are adding their coups de coeur from all over the place. 

But as the service and platform grew, and people have posted more and more music, with certain all stars having added more than 2,000 tracks, it’s a pain to scroll down and search for music that you’ve already added. The experience demanded a shuffle option. Now it’s here. 

Never stop jamming! 

5th September 2013

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Apero Music Tech #3: Fête de la Rentrée

Are you busy tanning yourself in the sunshine? Enjoying the outdoors and the smell of the world that is not chokingly polluted? Or are you stuck behind a desk, working away while half of your office is not there? Either way, there is something we can all agree on: nothing is worse than the end of the summer time. 

But it’s OK, seriously it’s OK. Because just as everyone starts to get back, we’re getting everyone together for a big party at the worldly Pointe Éphémère on the banks of the Canal Saint-Martin. The last Apero Music Tech was held here at the end of April, and what a party it was. 

The next one is Wednesday, September 4th, starting after work and going until we get kicked out. There will be DJs, there will be beer, there will be fun, it will be just the thing to kick those end of summer blues.

Looking forward to seeing everyone there! Here is the link to the Facebook event too

12th August 2013

2001: A Like Odyssey

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Exciting times here at Whyd as always but a quick pause in between updates for the DYLTS playlist contest and the interviews of our awesome community to mark a little milestone: we’ve now passed 2,000 likes on Facebook, and you know what? It feels really, really good. 

So, a HUGE thank you to everyone for supporting us, for adding tracks, for sharing great music, and for sticking with us as we develop this little platform into the dream we’ve had all along. And if you haven’t liked us yet on Facebook, show us some love! 

Never stop jamming! 

25th June 2013

Back Together Again

By the end of this week, the Whyd team will be reunited! With people on three continents, we have relied heavily on Skype and even Google Hangouts, which came through in the clutch (always wondered what those were for, now we know: it’s cat snorkeling). It will be great to have everyone back in Paris, bring it 2013! 

9th January 2013

What does a tech company do when there is no internet? Ah, administrative procrastination! 

What does a tech company do when there is no internet? Ah, administrative procrastination! 

5th November 2012