GROWTH
BEATS FAME

The growth platform built for artists and labels. Real rankings, real momentum — and a new way to run free downloads that actually pays you back.

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GROWTH
BEATS FAME

The growth platform built for artists and labels. Run a Mission, watch the support land — and keep every bit of the growth it earns you.

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The problem

THE SCENE RUNS ON
FREE DOWNLOADS

And in June 2026 the gate stopped working. SoundCloud paused Hypeddit's API access, so the follow, the like and the repost that used to be the price of a free track are now optional prompts people can skip. You still give the music away. You just don't get anything back for it. Meanwhile your growth lives across five dashboards that don't talk to each other.

Sources: Hypeddit's own announcement · EDM.com · We Rave You

The gate doesn't hold

Third-party download gates can't require a follow or a repost on SoundCloud any more. The prompt shows; skipping it still gets the file.

Growth is unmeasurable

SoundCloud reposts, Spotify saves, TikTok views, Instagram follows. Five numbers, no single picture.

Gates break, releases stall

When a platform changes its API rules, your download gate stops working and the release stalls with it.

The answer

MISSIONS

A Mission is a free download that pays you back. Set the actions a listener completes on FRACTA to unlock your track — follow you, like the track, save it, play the preview — and FRACTA handles the unlock itself. Because both sides happen here, the steps are actually enforced. There's no third-party API in the middle to be switched off.

Set it once. It runs itself.

Pick the track, pick the steps, publish. Listeners see exactly what's being asked before they start, complete it inside the app, and get the download the moment they're done.

  • Unskippable steps — on-FRACTA actions are required to unlock, not just suggested.
  • Real rewards — free downloads, sample packs, VIPs and bootlegs.
  • Conversion bonuses — quality Missions score higher than spam ones.
A FRACTA Mission: unlock the free download by following the artist, liking and saving the track and playing the preview
The principle

MOMENTUM,
NOT HISTORY

Growth Score measures where you're going, not where you've been. Recent growth counts in full; anything older than three months counts for a tenth. A small artist moving fast can outrank a big one who's stopped — which is the entire point.

Ranks to climb
6
Bronze to Legend. Ranks go down as well as up.
Reward types
5
Free downloads, sample packs, VIPs, bootlegs and exclusives.
Cut of your downloads
0%
Your track, your audience, your data.
The wider thing

MORE THAN AN APP

The platform is the first piece. The rest of the ecosystem follows it.

In build
FRACTA APP
Missions, Submit to Label, Snippets and rankings for the underground.
 Soon
FRACTA TV
Interviews, event coverage and the scene talking to itself.
Later
FRACTA MUSIC
A label powered by real artist growth data.
Later
FRACTA EVENTS
Taking it off the screen and into the room.

BUILT BY SOMEONE
IN THE SCENE

FRACTA exists because releasing music underground means juggling five platforms, three dashboards and a download gate that stopped enforcing anything. It shouldn't.

Why it exists

FIVE PLATFORMS,
NO ANSWERS

Every artist in this scene runs the same gauntlet. SoundCloud for the scene, Spotify for the algorithm, TikTok for reach, Instagram for everything else, a link hub to tie it together and a download gate to give tracks away. Six tools, six logins, and still no straight answer to the only question that matters: is this working?

FRACTA is where those threads lead. Not to replace where your music lives or where the clips go — but to turn the attention they get into support that counts, and to give the free-download culture the scene runs on a version that feeds the artist instead of a middleman.

What we hold to

THE RULES

Growth beats fame

Rankings reward momentum, not history. Recent growth counts in full, anything past three months counts for a tenth. A new artist moving fast should be able to outrank a big one standing still — and can.

Nobody else can switch it off

Missions run in-house. The follows, saves and downloads happen on FRACTA and land on your profile — so there's no external API that can be paused out from under you, the way SoundCloud's was in June.

No pay-to-win

Bot followers, duplicate accounts, fake downloads and self-interaction score nothing. Leaderboards are worth climbing only if they can't be bought.

Scene first, genre-wide later

Drum & Bass is the starting point, not the ceiling. Getting it right for one scene beats getting it vague for all of them.

Who it's for

ARTISTS, LABELS,
AND THE PEOPLE
WHO TURN UP

Artists

Grow an audience, run Missions that actually hold, and get found by labels looking for your trajectory rather than your follower count.

Labels

Find talent by momentum rather than follower count. Take submissions from up-and-coming artists, and switch your inbox off when you're not accepting.

Fans

Find music before it breaks, unlock free downloads properly, and get credit for backing artists early.

EVERYTHING
IN ONE PLACE

Missions, Submit to Label, Snippets and rankings — the part of releasing music the other apps don't do. Here's what's in the beta.

Discovery

A FEED THAT'S
ACTUALLY YOURS

Music first. Every track is its artwork and a 30-second preview — with a Mission attached when there's a free download to earn. No video, no noise.

Built to surface the small stuff

Good music beats pure ranking — the feed weights how a track is performing highest, then Growth Score, engagement and recency. A great track from a small artist still gets its shot.

  • Discover — artwork, a preview and the Mission, filtered by genre.
  • Snippets — tease what's unreleased. Every play and like counts toward your Growth Score.
  • Following — a feed of only the artists you've backed. Planned.
  • Free Music — every live Mission in one place. Planned.
FRACTA Discover: Bridges Stay Burnt by FINAL, full-screen artwork, a 30-second preview and a free-download Mission
Missions · the USP

FREE DOWNLOADS
THAT PAY YOU BACK

The scene's oldest growth tool, rebuilt so the artist keeps the value. The unlock happens inside FRACTA — no external gate, no API that can break mid-release.

Mission detail showing required steps and the free download reward

You set the price in effort

Follow on FRACTA, like the track, save it, play the preview — pick any combination. Required steps are unskippable; optional ones earn bonus Fan Score.

  • Reward types — downloads, sample packs, VIPs, bootlegs, exclusives.
  • Mission analytics — starts, completions, conversion rate, repeat completers.
  • Quality pays — high conversion earns weekly Growth bonuses.
Submit to Label · the USP

YOUR DEMO,
ACTUALLY HEARD

Send a track to up to five labels in one go. Only labels that are verified and accepting submissions can be picked — so nothing goes into an inbox nobody checks.

Five labels, one send

Pick the track, pick the labels, send. Every submission shows its status, so you know who's listened and who's replied instead of guessing.

  • Verified only — every label is checked before it can receive a single demo.
  • Accepting or not — labels switch their inbox on and off, so you never send into the void.
  • Momentum attached — your Growth Score travels with the track.
Submit to Label: a track selected and five verified labels that are accepting submissions
Growth & Rankings

ONE NUMBER
THAT MEANS
SOMETHING

Growth Score is built from what happens on FRACTA — Mission completions, new followers, likes, saves and plays on your tracks and snippets — then decays it, so this month matters more than last year.

Can't be farmed

Plays count once per listener per day. Self-interaction, duplicate accounts and bots score nothing. No outside platform is needed, so nobody can switch it off.

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Six ranks, both directions

Bronze to Legend. Ranks fall as well as rise, because a rank nobody can lose stops meaning anything.

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FRACTA Rising

Top 100 by weekly growth, verified and active. You get the Rising badge on your profile and a place on the public board. Each week's #1 gets the FRACTA TV interview.

BRONZE
0 Growth Score
Bronze Silver Gold Platinum Diamond Legend

Bronze at 0, Silver at 2,500, Gold at 5,000, Platinum at 10,000, Diamond at 20,000. Legend isn't a number — it's the top 250 artists by momentum, so it has to be taken rather than reached.

The FRACTA leaderboard: Gold rank with progress to Platinum, and the weekly FRACTA Rising board

Where you sit, and who's above you

Your rank, your Growth Score, how many places you've moved this week, and the leaderboard you're climbing — all on one screen.

Profiles

YOUR WHOLE
OPERATION

Tracks, snippets, releases and Missions on one profile — with a native link hub instead of pointing people at a Linktree that points them somewhere else again.

One page that does the work

Followers, following and Growth Score up top, your links as real buttons, your rank and Rising status visible, and your tracks, snippets and Missions in tabs underneath.

  • Native link hub — Instagram, Spotify, SoundCloud and TikTok as buttons on the profile itself.
  • Badges that mean something — rank, verification and Rising eligibility, all earned.
  • Tabs, not a wall — tracks, snippets and Missions kept separate so people find what they came for.
An artist profile on FRACTA: artwork banner, Growth Score and rank, link buttons, and tabs for tracks, snippets and Missions
Snippets

TEASE IT
BEFORE IT DROPS

Post a short preview of a track that isn't out yet — audio and artwork, no download. Every play, like and save counts toward your Growth Score, so the build-up to a release is growth in its own right.

A snippet of an unreleased track on FRACTA: full artwork, a preview player, plays and likes

Not a release — a reason to wait for one

Full-size artwork and a preview people can play straight away. Post the clip on TikTok or Instagram, send the link here, and the attention turns into score.

  • Artwork at full size — the cover is the pitch, so it isn't shrunk to a thumbnail.
  • Preview only — nothing to download until you're ready to release it.
  • Counts from day one — plays, likes and saves feed your Growth Score.

FRACTA TV

The media voice of the scene. Cameras at raves, microphones in front of artists, and the conversations nobody else is bothering to film.

What it is

THE SCENE,
ON CAMERA

An app can tell you who's growing. It can't tell you what a room sounds like at 2am, or what an artist actually thinks about the state of things. FRACTA TV is the part that goes out and asks.

Artist interviews

Sit-downs with producers and DJs about the actual work — the writing, the grind, the releases that flopped and the ones that didn't.

Event coverage

Out at raves with a camera, asking ravers what they're hearing, who they've come for, and what they've just discovered.

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The Rising interview

Each week's number one on FRACTA Rising gets the interview. One artist, earned on growth alone — so it stays worth winning.

Scene discussions & label spotlights

The arguments worth having, and the labels quietly doing the work — given the airtime they don't get elsewhere.

Why bother

A PLATFORM
SHOULD SHOW UP

Plenty of companies build tools for a scene from a distance. FRACTA TV is the commitment to be in the room — partly because it's how you learn what artists actually need, and partly because the scene deserves someone documenting it properly.

WHERE FRACTA
ACTUALLY IS

The app is in build, but the project isn't hiding until launch. This is where the work gets posted, argued about and shaped — come and be part of it.

Live

Discord

The community server, and the most direct line to the build. Feature arguments, early screenshots, and the place decisions actually get made.

discord.gg/KZeQbRxcx5 Live

Instagram

The main account. Build updates, feature previews, and the Rising board each week once the app is live.

@fracta.app
Not open yet

TikTok

Where FRACTA TV output will land — rave coverage, artist interviews and the weekly Rising feature. No account to follow yet; we'll link it here the moment there is.

Coming soon
Not open yet

YouTube

The home for full-length interviews and event films — the long-form half of FRACTA TV, where TikTok gets the cuts. Channel isn't up yet.

Coming soon
Start here

THE DISCORD IS
THE REAL ONE

Everything else is broadcast. Discord is the only one where you can talk back — and at this stage of the build, that's worth considerably more to us than a follow. If you're an artist, a label or just someone who goes out every weekend, that's the door.

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FOUNDING
MEMBERSHIP

A one-time way in. Founding Members get a permanent badge, a lifetime founding number that stays yours, and early access to everything we build. Once a tier is full, it's full.

Checkout is running in demo mode — Stripe isn't connected yet, so purchases can't be completed for real. This will switch on automatically once a live Stripe account is added.

QUESTIONS BEFORE
YOU COMMIT?

Drop us a message and we'll get back to you — this goes straight to the FRACTA team.

GET IN EARLY

FRACTA is in build. Join the waitlist for first access, help shape what ships, and claim your handle before everyone else does.

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