Jukboxx
Social network that pops your music algorithm bubble, with personal music recomendation articles.
Jukebox is a social networks that allows music lovers to play and express their opinions about music, while enriching their musical world with recommendations from real people and influencers and not from algorithms
2025 update, the app is live in beta mode, be one of the first to try:
www.jukboxx.co
2025 update, the app is live in beta mode, be one of the first to try:
www.jukboxx.co
The vision
As an avid music fan since I was a kid in the 90s, I've gone through many, many different stages of music consumption: from buying CDs at Tower Records, to downloading mp3s on Napster, to listening to music always available on streaming.
I came to notice that, contrary to what I would have thought, the immediate temporality And that we have today in streaming services doesn't make me listen to more diverse music but quite the opposite - I usually give in to convenience and let the streaming algorithm recommend things to me.
This causes me and I think music fans in general today to be trapped in a bubble of music that the algorithm creates for us.
To understand if I am not alone in this feeling, I conducted a survey among music lovers.
To understand if I am not alone in this feeling, I conducted a survey among music lovers.
Survey
In which way you currently get to find new music?
To which extent are you interested
in sharing others with music you discover?
How do you hear music on a regular basis?
75%
55%
70%+
Getting recommendations from friends
Are interesting in sharing music they discover
Use Spotify and/or Youtube
Key Takeaway
Many people get recommendations from streaming
services, social networks and the radio, but still people
seam to rely on personal recommendations
Key Takeaway
More than half of the participants shared a desire to share their thoughts on music.
Key Takeaway
Focus on interface with Spotify and Youtube
From this understanding I started my journey towards building an independent music blog, for several years, while teaching myself html, css, sass, and wordpress, I made several attempts to start a blog where I could write about music. And also to look cool and unusual.
The first finished version of it went live in 2019, and I published it with the help of my talented partner, Nadir Gil Harlap who contributed amazing illustrations.
For about a year I published articles on the blog and received positive responses, it was exciting but I felt that I was a little lonely, I began to feel that I wanted more people to publish music alongside me and for the blog to become a source of community - this was the starting point for the jukboxx app
The app
A colorful interface that contains both links to playlists that could be easily played, and full articles made by users. on the top a Mix button that brings out new set of random articles and videos, recommended by your favorite influencers.