TasteMaker

What we’re building: TasteMaker is a full social platform and funding layer for music. Artists get profiles, feeds, and community spaces, post music, photos, videos, and updates; chat with backers and other artists in dedicated groups. Fans get the same: profiles, feeds, and the chance to back projects with platform credits and receive ownership shares in return, real ownership and a share of revenue. Artists and fans use TASTE, the platform's own currency, so that every participant is a co-owner with a vote, not just a customer of another company. Funds are held safely and released to the artist at each milestone (e.g. producer hired, recording done, album released); no middleman decides when money moves. Fans become co-owners and community; artists set their own terms and keep the relationship, they choose what to offer, and nothing is taken that wasn't explicitly offered. We're starting with the concept of funding album recording, but we're expanding fan-backed ownership to merch, tour funding, and more, anything the artist chooses to share with backers as the basis for the deal. Structure and terms will follow what's appropriate from a regulatory and legal standpoint.