Jam.coop

jam.coop is a new online service that allows musicians to connect with and sell music directly to their fans.

We plan to have features similar to other services, such as Bandcamp, but with a crucial difference: jam.coop is a co-operative run by and for the benefit of musicians and the people who build the platform. We're not for sale and never will be.

jam.coop is built by a small software development company called Go Free Range. We're a company owned and run by our workers - a worker co-operative.

We have experience of building this kind of thing. We helped build FutureLearn, an online marketplace for mass-participation university courses and BBC Introducing a service for musicians to upload their music to the BBC and get it played on the radio. Who owns jam.coop?

jam.coop is owned by Go Free Range and we haven't taken on any external funding. Our vision, if we can build something successful, is to "exit to the community". jam.coop will become a multi-stakeholder co-operative owned and democratically run by musicians, the workers at Go Free Range and any other staff we may need to take on in the future.

We want to start small and move quickly. We're "incubating" this new co-operative within Go Free Range to begin with. We're covering the costs of development and infrastructure so that we can build something useful to musicians as quickly as possible. If we can get to the point where jam.coop is self-funding we'll be in a great place to "exit to the community". We're already working with advisors from Principal Six Co-op on how the new co-op will be structured. When will you be ready?

We're busy building the first, simplest version of jam.coop.

Here's a sketch of our roadmap: Building now

Artist pages so fans can find your music Album pages so fans can listen to your music Transcoding services so your music is available to download in MP3 and FLAC formats Credit card processing so fans can buy your music and download it to their devices

Building next

Collection pages so fans can listen to their purchases in one place Follow features so fans can be notified of your news and new releases Support for merchandise and physical sales Support for record labels