By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm.
The original idea for 8Tracks, according to founder and CEO David Porter, was to build something like the most second-most-powerful feature in the original Napster (after the ability to search for and download music, of course): Hot List.
“For me, the most compelling feature of Napster 1.0 was the ‘hotlist’ button,” writes Porter in a blog post he emailed our way. “After downloading something interesting or a bit obscure, I could click on the ‘hotlist’ button next to the uploader’s name to reveal the other music on his hard drive. It was, for me, the first example of *social* music discovery on the web. Admittedly, since the files weren’t sorted in any meaningful way, it was quite unorganized. But I knew there was something big there.”
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