Archive - The Liminal Space

Combatting the Emergence of a Two-Tier Music Streaming Market

IMPALA recently asked me to take a look at the economics of the music streaming market, to provide an update on the current state of play, and to…

Jun 10, 2025 • dan

May 2025

The “Agentic Web” and the future business of Music

It’s been a while. Some musing that I wanted to write down somewhere as they have been buzzing around in my head.

May 27, 2025 • dan

October 2023

Designing F2P music with a focus on "fun"

Understanding who the userbase are, what they like to do, and why

Oct 23, 2023 • dan

neume, a public retro

It's important to talk about what we've learned when we build things

Oct 11, 2023 • dan

September 2023

Building and implementing F2P music

Exploring how business models and design systems can be applied

Sep 28, 2023 • dan and Shokunin

F2P, a new business model for music.

The start of a research project into a new way of doing things

Sep 14, 2023 • dan

July 2023

GOT NO JUICE (the podcast)

The first JUICE experiment of many

Jul 13, 2023 • dan

June 2023

A framework for thinking about the future

High level musing about the things that will / may matter

Jun 2, 2023 • dan

April 2023

The importance of staying true to your values

aka don’t abstract away the point of the thing

Apr 13, 2023 • dan

March 2023

Mapping out the onchain music ecosystem

...and arguing that it needs a Public Goods core

Mar 28, 2023 • dan

The New Baseline, Public Goods, and Venture funding

Assessing the foundation that we have in place for the next cycle

Mar 21, 2023 • dan

Create new markets: Business models, exits, and the Series-A stall

Don't become reliant on copyright or platform data, it will scupper you in the longrun

Mar 13, 2023 • dan