FLXmusic Fund Raise Through Start Engine

I am really excited about FLXmusic. It is the coolest project I have ever worked on and it is something I am immensely proud of. FLXmusic is a music streaming platform specifically for the Finger Lakes region of New York. Music lovers can listen to music from bands playing an event in the Finger Lakes and browse Finger Lakes events. You can sort and filter based on music genre, date, and location. You can see band profiles to learn more about the band and see songs they have on the platform. As far as we have come, there are still a lot of features I want to build into the platform. Right now, many of the events are coming from TicketMaster, but I want to add integration with other ticketing platforms like EventBrite, AXS, Tixr, Accesso, Spektrix, TixTrack, and more. I also want to add the ability to buy tickets to events right into the application so I can help local venues sell tickets to their events. Right now I have over 100 bands with several hundred songs, but I want to have all the bands playing an event in the Finger Lakes added to the platform to have a better selection of music content. I want to add features for venues like the ability to create a playlist that includes bands playing at the venue so venues can promote their events. And I want to increase the tools for bands, which I have committed will be free for bands forever. This is just a few improvements, but I feel the site already is better than huge sites like TripAdvisor in the ability to explore things to do and places to go in the Finger Lakes. Additionally, we want to build out our core products and start selling them. Our core products are ads on the free music streaming tier, paid subscriptions for an ad free tier, event promotion product that lets venues promote an event similar to Facebook Boost, affiliate marketing from integrations with ticketing platforms like Ticketmaster, and Venue Pro Profiles which open up features on the venue profile like unlimited listed events, improved visibility of events, discounts on event promotion, custom music playlists that include bands playing at that venue just to name a few. I have put together a pitch deck, budget, and cap table that are available on Start Engine. I am seeking to raise $150,000 for 15%. Compared to other startups I have seen, this is a relatively small raise. You could be an owner in an exciting startup that supports local and small to medium sized bands that don’t get much support from music streaming platforms like Spotify. In fact, many bands hate Spotify and I have heard several have pulled content from that platform for that reason citing the platform as unethical. Why? There seems to be two primary reasons for this: that platform pays out less than any other music streaming platform and they play AI created music from fake bands. Bands typically pay a service to distribute music to these platforms, which costs bands money instead of helping them make money for their work. FLXmusic lets bands add music directly at no cost. Plus we promote their music and events for free. As album sales have declined to near zero, bands rely heavily on events for income. For this reason, FLXmusic sees promoting local and small to medium bands and their live music events as a huge business opportunity.