2015 · US · Mobile · Startups · Consumer · Social

Muzibit — a social streaming app built for music freaks

A social-first music app combining streaming (Soundcloud + YouTube), community feeds, reactions, playlists and influencer mechanics — one home for everything a music-obsessed user would normally span five apps for.

Mobile Startups Consumer Social

Muzibit — a social streaming app built for music freaks

In one breath

Social-first music app combining Soundcloud and YouTube streaming with community feeds
Three content lanes — Buzz, News and Dish — surface what people, media and peers are saying
Built to collapse five music/social apps into one

iOS + Android

Platforms

Soundcloud + YouTube

Streaming sources

Content lanes

01 · The challenge

What was broken, what was at stake

A music enthusiast typically jumps between Spotify, Soundcloud, YouTube, Twitter and a playlist app. Muzibit's founders wanted that fragmented behaviour collapsed into one app where the music and the people who cared about it lived together.

02 · The approach

How we thought about it

Lean on existing audio/video platforms rather than competing with them. Soundcloud for independent/long-tail audio, YouTube for video — both via their APIs. Build the social graph, the community feeds, and the influencer mechanics on top. That's where the product differentiation lives.

03 · What we built

The actual solution

Mobile app on iOS and Android with Soundcloud and YouTube embedded for unlimited audio/video. Three feeds — Buzz (community chatter), News (releases, tours, shows), Dish (reactions and reposts). Playlists, sharing, and commentary built in. Influence accrues to users whose Dishes get repost reactions.

04 · The results

What shipped, what changed

An app where users who love music could live — streaming, discovery and community in one place — with the heavy lifting of audio licensing deferred to the platforms that already solved it.

Timeline

Phase by phase.

01
Discovery
3 weeks
Product scope — what's in, what's deferred to upstream platforms. Community-feed mechanics.
02
Design
3 weeks
Three-feed UX. Player integration. Influence / reaction mechanics.
03
Build
10 weeks
Parallel iOS and Android plus backend. Weekly demos.
04
Launch
2 weeks
Store submission, community seeding, influencer onboarding.