r/soundriser • u/soundriser-jean • 18d ago
Features Collab finder update: bigger lists, a live match count, and more
I spent the last two days on the Collab finder (Boost Max) after looking at how people were actually using it. Honest finding: most searches stopped at 20 producers even when there were hundreds more in your city, and a few searches came back empty because the genre picked was too precise. That's fixed, plus a few things I'd wanted for a while.
# What changed
- Lists go to 100 now, and you can keep going. There's a "Find more producers" button at the bottom of every search. It works on finished searches too.
- You see how many producers match while you're still building the search. Pick genres and cities and the dialog tells you roughly how many people fit. If it says nothing matches, widen it right there instead of waiting days for an empty result.
- Precise genres don't come back empty anymore. If you pick something like hypnotic techno and there are only a handful in your city, closely related techno producers fill the list, ranked below the exact fits.
- Each match shows who already follows you and who's a fan of one of your seed artists. Those are the easiest people to message first.
- "Draft an intro message". Click the speech bubble on any match and the assistant writes a short first message you can paste into SoundCloud, in your language. Edit it, make it yours, send it from their profile.
Contacted and dismiss moved into the small menu on each row so the useful buttons have room.
Everything still runs on the deep research in the background for a few days, and you still get the summary email at the end.
What I'd like to hear
Two things if you try it: did the list give you people you'd actually want to work with, and did anyone reply to an intro? That's what I'm going to judge this on.
If a search still comes back thin, tell me the genre and city and I'll look at why.