BCRecommender

State of Bandcamp Recommender, Late 2017

Call for BCRecommender maintainers followed by a decision to shut it down, as I don’t have enough time and Bandcamp now offers recommendations.

Migrating a simple web application from MongoDB to Elasticsearch

Migrating BCRecommender from MongoDB to Elasticsearch made it possible to offer a richer search experience to users at a similar cost, among other benefits.

Goodbye, Parse.com

Migrating my web apps away from Parse.com due to reliability issues. Self-hosting is a better solution.

SEO: Mostly about showing up?

Increasing SEO traffic to BCRecommender by adding content and opening up more pages for crawling. It turns out that thin content is better than no content.

BCRecommender Traction Update

Update on BCRecommender traction using three channels: blogger outreach, search engine optimisation, and content marketing.

Applying the Traction Book’s Bullseye framework to BCRecommender

Ranking 19 channels with the goal of getting traction for BCRecommender.

Bandcamp recommendation and discovery algorithms

The recommendation backend for my BCRecommender service for personalised Bandcamp music discovery.

Building a recommender system on a shoestring budget (or: BCRecommender part 2 – general system layout)

Iterating on my BCRecommender service with the goal of keeping costs low while providing a valuable music recommendation service.

Building a Bandcamp recommender system (part 1 – motivation)

My motivation behind building BCRecommender, a free recommendation & discovery service for Bandcamp music.