A new social media app called Indaband allows musicians and vocalists to collaborate with others and make music with people around the world. This app is designed to help those who normally play their own instruments feel like they're part of a world-class band (get it, Indaband?). If you record a video of yourself playing an instrument, someone else can paste a video of themselves playing their instrument over the original recording.
All you need to get started with Indaband is headphones and a smartphone to record yourself. You can upload pre-recorded files as new tracks, or open the app's recording booth and record your own tracks over other people's tracks. You can use the app's multitrack video studio to record and mix unlimited video tracks in different sessions and share them with the community. Indaband will notify you when someone collaborates with one of your tracks, so you can see how they put their own spin on your content.
The app is the brainchild of CEO Daniel Murta, Chief Technology Officer Andrews Medina, Head of Engineering Herielson Santos, and Design Lead Emerson Farias. The co-founders came up with the idea for the app while working at his legal technology company called Jusbrasil, which Murta co-founded.
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They used to get together and play music during happy hours after work, but when the pandemic hit, they came up with the idea for Indaband so they could play music together even during quarantine. The group then spent weekends developing his Indaband, which eventually led him to leave Jusbrasil to devote himself full-time to Indaband.
“Music production is very difficult and requires complex software. So the whole idea was to redesign this process from scratch and make it easy to do it from your smartphone,” Murta told TechCrunch told. “The idea was to unlock a different level of musical expression and make it easier to collaborate and co-create music.”
Indaband helps users discover songs and jam sessions with daily curated playlists divided into different genres such as rock, jazz, hip-hop, and EDM. Users can like, comment, and repost videos to their followers.
Indaband plans to release a new feature called “Circles” that likens Murta to Strava's clubs. Circles allows users to build their own communities on the app and even host live events in some cases. Indaband may also develop a Patreon-like feature within Circles that would allow existing creators to offer paid content. For example, a famous musician can offer virtual lessons on an instrument that he or she has mastered.
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While Indaband's early adopters are seasoned musicians who are comfortable sharing their music and recording it themselves, Indaband will eventually target musicians and singers just starting out. is.
“We want to be known as a place where the music community thrives,” Murta said. “There is currently no place for the music community. So this idea should be known for that, and our strategy is to make it easy to create and allow everyone to participate in the creation process.”
Indaband raised $7 million in seed funding in late 2021. Several angel investors participated in the funding round, including Instagram co-founder Mike Crager and former Megadeth guitarist Kiko Loureiro. The round also included funding from several Latin American VC firms, including Monashees, Astella, and Upload Ventures.
The app is free and available on iOS and Android.