Musicboard, an app for music discovery and suggestions, has been struggling, in line with its customers. Over the previous a number of months, customers mentioned the app skilled outages, the web site went offline, and the Android app disappeared from the Play Retailer.
This has involved its devoted, if small, person base. (The app has been downloaded round 462,000 instances so far, in line with market intelligence supplier Appfigures.) On Reddit, customers have been recommending alternate options and providing one another help as they await any replace.
Whereas it’s not shocking for an app to close down, when there’s nonetheless an lively person base, apps sometimes present some form of communication from their operators. However Musicboard customers say they haven’t heard something, leaving them to succeed in out to the press for assist getting in contact with somebody, if solely to allow them to export their information.
Some customers organized an unofficial “Assist Save Musicboard” initiative to deliver extra consideration to the matter. The group is led by the Musicboard person often called Lavarini and run by volunteers.
TechCrunch contacted Musicboard to assist these customers get some solutions and was offered a brief assertion. Nevertheless, the assertion didn’t clarify the longer-term points and dismissed the outages as “non permanent downtime.”
The assertion, shared from the Musicboard workforce e mail handle and signed merely as “Musicboard,” mentioned the next:
App isn’t shut down. The servers had non permanent downtime, which has now been shortly mounted. And we’re working along with the Google Play workforce to get the app again up there. The app wouldn’t shut down with out a respectful timeline for the customers and official communication. App is staying reside.
Observe-up questions went unanswered.
The founders of Musicboard, Johannes Vermandois and Erik Heimer, have been concerned with different initiatives. Their AI app, Frank AI, was set to be acquired by an organization known as Freedom Holdings, Inc., however the potential acquirer terminated its letter of intent in September 2024. Dreamsands, Inc., the corporate that publishes Frank AI on the App Retailer, additionally operates one other app, Helm, an AI therapist.
Over e mail, Lavarini says the customers’ efforts to assist save the app will proceed.
The Assist Save Musicboard initiative “goals to help consciousness and dialogue across the long-term sustainability of the indie app Musicboard and its neighborhood,” Lavarini wrote.
