Hi everybody! Ruben Rehn, the founder of mixBuddy.com here.
I saw traffic directed to mixBuddy.com from here and I couldn't believe my eyes when I found this post and someone I didn't knew was talking about the page - truly exciting! I just wanted to introduce myself and try to add to this conversation and answer any questions and to collect feedback to constantly improve the site.
mixBuddy.com was started as a project by me (in Stockholm, Sweden where I am born and live), as I am myself a struggling song writer and producer. I am truly passionate about making new music all the time, but I could never seem to get the mixing work as I heard it in my head. I realized there must be millions of aspiring musicians, mixing engineers, artists, producers and song writers in the same situation struggling with different parts of the music production process, not just mixing. And seeing that the music industry is as broken as it is, I thought to myself that it would only be fair to find a way for aspiring musicians to get paid for the work they do for once. I started coding mixBuddy.com the next day.
As you understand, it is as much a tool for myself as it is for everybody else in the same situation. I am still the only employee of the company and I am working hard to get the network going. For customers to see value in it, there must be services and users willing to take on the work they post first. That's what I am doing for the first weeks and will then focus on turning towards the buying customer. I will eat noodles until I succeed!
I just wanted you to know the background and to know who I was as well as open up a feedback channel. Any comments or feedback, good or bad is always welcome and hopefully we can manage to grow this into something really good!
Thank you for helping me out!
Best Regards,
Ruben