Pretzel Weekly Update #19 — The “Go Back, I Like That” Edition

Ryan Capps
Jul 23, 2017 · 4 min read

Happy Sunday, all! We have a new station and the ability to jump back a song, now!

Good song. Have a “like”.

Progress this Week

Latest Build

The latest build of Pretzel at the time of this post is: v. 0.0.15 (180)

This means that if you haven’t refreshed your web player or restarted your desktop player in a while it may not work. A quick refresh/restart will get you up to date with the latest version.


Music Updates


Technology

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So what’s on for this week?

Design and implementation of the account management page that will allow a user to manage most aspects of their account (Account Linking, Like/Dislike management).

We strive to add new music every week, however we have been experiencing resistance from interested artists who are hesitant to sign anything without having a royalties contract in place.

We will soon be announcing our Pretzel Rocks Premium subscription. We will be paying artists 70% of the revenue, 30% will go to Pretzel for running the business and infrastructure. We believe that having a premium service for our users which also fairly compensates our artists will make signing new music much easier.

On the bubble: Design of the artist pitch deck.

We’ve mentioned before that we’re working on the Twitch Interactive Beta. That continues to be a living relationship and development. While we can’t go into details on anything that isn’t already public facing, we’re still pretty geeked to keep working with Twitch to develop this new tech for viewers and streamers.

Along side the development of the paid tier is the design and creation of the Pretzel mobile app, which is a feature users have been requesting for months. Mobile will most likely be part of the paid premium tier.


See you next week!

If you have a moment, there was a really nice write-up on Pretzel at StreamerSquare! Give it a read, if you have a moment. Be sure to check out the Twitch interactive overlay, if you haven’t already. Sign up for our alpha, follow our Twitter and chat in our Discord. We’ll see you next week!

Cheers,
The Pretzel Team

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