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1. Julian Hills
Kyle Wilson
Ryan Sanna

2. Problem / Need
• Music discovery is time-consuming
• A follow system isn't personal
• No clean 1-to-1 music sharing apps
exist

3. MVP 1.0 Response
• Re-focus on the core experience
– Expose more features to user
– Investigate good UI
– App needs to feel more “complete”

4. MVP 2.0 Features
• New universal UI
– Visual feedback persists amongst all views
– Defined playback layout
• Community features
– User views for self and others
• Preliminary gamification
– User and bounce scores
• SoundCloud Account Integration
– Likes / unlikes persist to SC account

5. Users
• Karen
– Casual music listener
– Enjoys listening to music sent by friends
– Gets music from Facebook posts, iTunes
lists, and the radio
• Mike
– Avid music discoverer
– Likes to be known as the first guy to hear
a song
– Heavy user of SoundCloud, the Hype
Machine, and similar services

6. Use Case #1
Karen: Casual Listener

7. Use Case #2
Mike: Music Discoverer

8. MVP 2.0 Feedback
• “I think the new UI is much better.”
• “The user views remind me of SnapChat. I
wish they had a little more information,
though.”
• “I wish I could see more of what my friends
are doing”

9. Lessons Learned
• Project Management Overhead
• Communication is key
• Focus on exposing features before working on
advanced backend tasks

10. Future - MVP 3.0
• Feed
• Complex score calculations
• More SoundCloud account integration
• Update user and login UI, bug fixes
• More secure backend
• Request feature