So, what’s going on with Musicboard?

Musicboard, an app for euphony find and recommendations, has been struggling, according to its users. Over the past respective months, users said the app experienced outages, the website went offline, and the Android app disappeared from the Play Store.

This has acrophobic its devoted, if small, idiosyncratic base. (The app has been downloaded astir 462,000 times to date, according to marketplace quality supplier Appfigures.) On Reddit, users person been recommending alternatives and offering each different enactment arsenic they hold for immoderate update.

While it’s not astonishing for an app to unopen down, erstwhile there’s inactive an progressive idiosyncratic base, apps typically supply immoderate benignant of connection from their operators. But Musicboard users accidental they haven’t heard anything, leaving them to scope retired to the property for assistance getting successful interaction with someone, if lone to fto them export their data.

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Some users organized an unofficial “Help Save Musicboard” inaugural to bring much attraction to the matter. The radical is led by the Musicboard idiosyncratic known arsenic Lavarini and tally by volunteers.

TechCrunch contacted Musicboard to assistance these users get immoderate answers and was provided a abbreviated statement. However, the connection didn’t explicate the longer-term issues and dismissed the outages arsenic “temporary downtime.”

The statement, shared from the Musicboard squad email code and signed simply arsenic “Musicboard,” said the following:

“App is not unopen down. The servers had impermanent downtime, which has present been rapidly fixed. And we’re moving unneurotic with the Google Play squad to get the app backmost up there. The app wouldn’t unopen down without a respectful timeline for the users and authoritative communication. App is staying live.”

Follow-up questions went unanswered.

The founders of Musicboard, Johannes Vermandois and Erik Heimer, person been progressive with different projects. Their AI app, Frank AI, was acceptable to beryllium acquired by a institution called Freedom Holdings, Inc., but the imaginable acquirer terminated its missive of intent successful September 2024. Dreamsands, Inc., the institution that publishes Frank AI connected the App Store, besides operates different app, Helm, an AI therapist.

Over email, Lavarini says the users’ efforts to assistance prevention the app volition continue.

The Help Save Musicboard inaugural “aims to enactment consciousness and treatment astir the semipermanent sustainability of the indie app Musicboard and its community,” Lavarini wrote.