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10 years of SubmitHub
On November 10th, SubmitHub turns 10 🎉 🥳 🍻
Last year, I shared a number of interesting factoids. This year, I'll change things up a bit with a full timeline!
But before we dive into the nitty gritty, to celebrate, we're:
- Sharing a "save10" coupon that can be used on an unlimited basis from November 1 to November 10
- Giving away a bunch of free credits to our oldest users
- Launching a new feature called SubmitHub Gifts
Party time 🎉 🍺 🍹 👯
Timeline
2015
- October 29: submithub.com registered (on my 30th birthday!)
- November 10: first submission
- November 20: 1,000th submission
- December 1: 1,000th user
2016
- January: 10,000th submission & the first premium submission
- March: 10,000th user
- April: 100th music blog and 100,000th submission
- June: Launched SubmitHub Chat
- August: Integrated copyright management for uploads
- September: Added support for Spotify Playlisters
2017
- February: Artist pages & 1 millionth submission
- April: “Weekend mode” for curators
- September: Launched the Popular chart & 100,000th user
- October: Launched the Really Good Bloggers program
2018
- February: Automatic sharing to Spotify & started tracking listen length
- March: MP3/WAV uploads and support for multiple DSPs
- May: GIF support in chats & “Favorite” curators
- October: “Genre bias” score introduced
- December: Launched Hot or Not
2019
- April: Curators can withdraw using Transferwise
- May: Translated SubmitHub into ~8 languages
- September: Schedule songs for automatic removal from playlists
- October: Instagram submissions
2020
- March: 10 millionth submission 🎉
- June: Launched an internal support/admin ticketing system
- July: Support for lyrics
- August: Curators can approve directly from the Popular chart
2021
- January: Split influencer submissions into their own category
- February: Launched SubmitHub Links
- July: “Agencies” for influencer managers
- September: TikTok submissions
- November: “Budget submissions” for influencers
2022
- January: Auto-restore of Spotify playlists (Spotify was removing artwork+titles randomly)
- June: Ability to “schedule” submissions
- August: Added “Moods” as a filter
- September: Share instantly to Spotify playlists
- October: “Choose for me” launched
2023
2024
- February: Links get conversions API support
- March: Follow artists for new release notifications
- May: 1 millionth user 🎉
- August: Playlist syncing across Deezer, Apple, YouTube, and SoundCloud
- October: SubmitHub Ads
2025
What's next?
2025 has blown by real fast. I just turned 40, and I feel like there isn't enough time in the day to accomplish everything I want to do. So, part of "hitting middle age" is learning to slow down a bit 👴
Here's what's on my radar:
- Thinking about ways to improve the feedback experience
- Tweaking SubmitHub Ads, with A/B testing, playlist generation, and possibly some collaborations :)
- Working on the AI Checker as well as What's My Genre?
- Sync for Tidal and Napster?
- Cleaning up 10 years of legacy code 😆
- Revisiting translations and improving them
- Accept crypto payments 🚀
- Improved song upload process (this can be super duper simplified, I reckon)
In conclusion...
Many thanks to our amazing SubmitHub team: Henko, Dylan, Jami, Tilly, and Carey. And also our customer support champs: Jeremy, James, mp3hugger, Atroxity, Felix, and Ascending Everest.
And of course, thanks to all of you reading this: your feedback has been instrumental in building a SubmitHub that works for everyone.
Feature requests? Stats you'd like to know? Use the comments below!
Oh, and just for giggles, here's an AI image to celebrate the occasion: