Feature your playlist and earn a discount

If you build a good deck, other people want it. That happens more than I expected, and the discount programme exists because the alternative was people screenshotting their playlist and sending it around manually.

Here is how it works and, more usefully, what makes a playlist other people actually pick.

How it works

When you make a deck, you can choose to feature the playlist publicly. It then appears on the playlists page where anyone browsing can pick it as the starting point for their own cards.

Every time somebody orders a deck built from your featured playlist, you earn credit against your next order. You are not selling anything and nobody pays you: you get a discount, they get a playlist that somebody actually thought about.

You can turn featuring off at any time, and an unfeatured playlist stops being offered immediately.

What gets picked

I can see which featured playlists get used and which sit there, and the pattern is clear enough to be worth passing on.

A specific idea beats a good playlist. "Songs that were number one the week you were born" gets chosen. "My favourites" does not, no matter how good the songs are. People browsing are looking for a concept they can hand to a room, not for your taste.

Name it like a shelf label. The title is the entire pitch, because that is all a browser sees before deciding. "90s one-hit wonders" tells someone exactly what evening they are getting. "Vibes" tells them nothing.

Build it for recognition. The same rule as any game deck: choruses and singles, not album tracks. A featured playlist that nobody can guess gets ordered once and never recommended.

Spread the decades unless the concept is a decade. A timeline game needs gaps between years to be playable at all.

The occasions that do well

Decade decks are the reliable ones. After that: weddings, a specific year, songs from films, and country-specific sets that only somebody living there would assemble properly.

The ones that do badly are the very personal ones, which makes sense. A deck built from your own history is the best possible gift for the people in it and a strange purchase for a stranger. Keep those private and put them in a gift box instead.

The honest limits

This is a discount on your next order, not an income. If you feature a playlist and nobody picks it, nothing happens and you have lost nothing. If a deck of yours gets popular, your next order is cheaper. That is the whole mechanism, and I would rather describe it plainly than dress it up.

Details and current terms are on the earn discount page.