richoakley

"Swartkops" - hello fellow South African AV geek!

I live in South Africa, and a load of people fly Cape Town <> Johannesburg once a week (according to your link, it's the 10th busiest route in the world). It's about a 2 hour flight.

I don't think the amazement has as much to do with the distance as it does the idea of living and working in two different countries.

It's a visual clone.

In the same way as House of Cards isn't exclusive to Netflix, "Top Gear 2.0" will be sold to multiple broadcasters and distributors all over the world.

Top Gear was worth about $80m a year to the BBC in selling the series globally.

I'd be really interested to hear what services you use to 'subsidize' Spotify discovery with? Email in my profile if you feel like taking it off HN :)

I love music startups (doing one myself). Is it similar to what Bop.fm are trying to do, but more around having a entire library of music (like a cloud-based iTunes)?

Drop me an email (in my profile) if you're keen to chat.

It looks like you've built your landing page in PHP, which is renowned for its scaling and security problems. I'd highly recommend looking into something like Scala or Lisp if you want your unlaunched product to have any chance in scaling to the millions of users you probably won't get.

My bet is that they're just launching a leadership structure with a flatter design.