0-1 product enabling fans to invest in music

Building a stock market for early stage musicians to list assets, set deal terms, and get fan investment (as an alternative to labels)
Product thinking
Key features
Visualizing data
Business goals

Company

Fringe

Team (4)

PM, Eng, Data, Design (Me!)

Timeline

3x 6 week sprints
Context
A strong focus on dollars earned
The team was convinced that the potential of financial returns would boost support for starving acts. So as an alternative to exploitive label funding, we built Robinhood, but for investing in emerging musicians. The product broke down streaming revenue into investable equity and let fans buy in, fund projects, and earn money alongside their favorite acts on every stream.
Asset performance
Stream goal tracking
Artist dashboard - desktop
Artist dashboard - mobile
Music portfolio
Buisnes goals
Legal compliance + data integration
The legal backbone to our product was a novel rev share agreement, that came with really unique design challenges to stay compliant with the SCC. Simultaneously data in the music industry is notoriously horrible, often lagging behind 6-9 months. Artist who depend on these things to put food on the table, can't make heads or tales of it.
Unique design challenges
3x featured designs
statement about the unique design challenges
01/

Finding financial legitamcy

Our MVP lacked core financial functionality. I designed essential features like portfolio summaries, cash-out options, and goal tracking, enabling launch and market validation despite relying on projected data.

MVP
Launch
02/

Mitigating negative rev share value

I  was in a situation where, depending on how I designed it, the exact same asset could tell a radically different story. If an artist needed 100 daily streams on average to meet a goal but was hitting 110, that asset was performing at plus 10%. Even though its current value could be -99.


Negative
Positive
02/

Mitigating negative rev share value

I  was in a situation where, depending on how I designed it, the exact same asset could tell a radically different story. If an artist needed 100 daily streams on average to meet a goal but was hitting 110, that asset was performing at plus 10%. Even though its current value could be -99.

Negative
Positive
03/

Adapting to data constraints

As the designer, I translated confusing statements and vanity metrics into a clear financial story. I developed frameworks to connect streaming virality to dollars earned, making the impact easy to understand.

Raw data
Framework
Results

Results and business impact

We went from static QR code, to a single asset card portfolio, and ultimately to launching a legitimate investment  product. Focused on the money.

50+
Artist onboarded
Key features helped the platform gain financial legitimacy and build trust with cautious artist.
-76%
Support tickets
Financial narratives helped investors understand their investment, reducing tickets
7
Frameworks
Prioritized key data and visualized financial stories around asset performance
10x
Investment return
Some fans saw a 10x return on their investments in artists
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Product iterations to align with fan "value"
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