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How an Indie Programmer Built His Own Streaming Service and Left Spotify Forever

A note before we start: the “I” in this essay is a composite — an archetypal indie developer stitched together from countless real threads on r/selfhosted, Lemmy, and Hacker News, and from the very real software and tradeoffs those communities live with. The frustrations are real. The tools are real. The steps are real enough […]

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30 May 2026
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Why Bandcamp Pays Artists Dozens of Times More Than Spotify

Independent musicians have long complained that streaming economics leave most of them with almost nothing. Spotify, the dominant platform, generates billions in royalties overall, yet the typical independent artist sees only fractions of a cent per play. Bandcamp operates on a fundamentally different model. Instead of pooling subscription revenue and dividing it by total streams, […]

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14 May 2026
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