The music industry is broken: OpenWav's new app aims to change that
9 verst 6 9/13/2025, 7:47:34 PM techcrunch.com ↗
Comments (6)
iainctduncan · 53m ago
Every year another famous pop star teams up with some huckster startup to tell us the same story... and every year it doesn't pan out.
bix6 · 3h ago
AI merch and a 20% cut of ticket sales. I don’t see how this breaks the stranglehold that labels and Ticketmaster have?
viraptor · 2h ago
Isn't this kinda what SoundCloud is already doing?
MultifokalHirn · 2h ago
when you are just another platform that offers services to artists like dropshipping merch and calling yourself "openwav" as if it were some open standard gives off really bad vibes...
evolve2k · 1h ago
Yeah the name gives me the ick. It smells scammy. I’d be changing it rather than risk ongoing negative brand affects.
al_borland · 1h ago
This sounds like Patreon for music.