Musiconnect

The Challenge

In the music industry, building a network is essential to create or perform music. Musicians often need to connect with others who have complementing skills—whether it’s finding band members, songwriters, lyricists, composers, producers, or mixers.

Currently, most people turn to social media for this, but it’s not ideal. It’s difficult to:

• Find others at the same skill level.
• Know if they’re open to collaboration.
• Locate specific skills or services unless you’re already established.

Beyond collaboration, earning income through music skills is a common goal. Yet, without a robust network, turning that dream into reality is a challenge for many musicians.

The Solution

A dedicated platform to connect musicians. The idea is straightforward:

• Profiles for Musicians: Showcase skills, portfolios, and services, as well as what you’re looking for—band members, collaborators, or industry partners.
• Direct Communication Tools: Chat functionality to make it easier to connect and start conversations.
• Service Exchange: A way to sell or trade services like songwriting, production, instrument recordings, and mixing.

The platform is designed to make collaboration easier, more efficient, and more transparent.

The Results

This type of platform relies on having a lot of users to be truly useful, but I started small and the project is still in a validation phase. I have created a minimal viable product (MVP) and tested the idea by posting in a single local Facebook group. The results were potentially encouraging—my posts led to a few sign-ups, and the feedback was positive.

These initial steps showed me that there may be real potential in the idea, but there’s still a long way to go. Over the next year, I plan to push this MVP further to validate the idea, grow the user base, and explore ways to pitch it to people in the music industry to accelerate its adoption.

Read about my lessons from this project here.